Nov. 25, 2020
Foggy Thanksgiving Eve. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with patchy fog after midnight. Lows will be in the mid-20s to lower 30s. Thanksgiving Day will be partly sunny with highs in the lower 30s up north to lower 40s further south.
The state matched an all-time high for COVID-19 deaths again today , a week after first setting the mark at 72. One in 10 COVID-19 related deaths in Minnesota have now come in the last week. New hospitalizations reported to the state health department were again over 300 for a second straight day and for only the third time during the pandemic.
There was some positive news, as case counts paused their rapid growth from earlier in November, and the daily positivity rate — the percent of tests that come back positive — fell into single digits for the first time in more than three weeks.
Ahead of a likely special legislative session aimed at COVID-19 relief, Gov. Tim Walz said his administration was issuing $1 million in tourism promotion grants , hoping to boost interest in travel and hospitality businesses. The money will go to nonprofit tourism organizations around Minnesota. A high-profile Minneapolis murder case that gained prominence during the presidential campaign took a new turn today. Eleven-year-old Tyesha Edwards was shot to death by an apparent stray bullet while sitting at her kitchen table in 2002. Prosecutors, led by then-Hennepin County attorney Amy Klobuchar, charged 16-year-old Myron Burrell with the shooting. He was later convicted. Subsequent outside investigations have questioned Burrell’s guilt.
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