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Stories from November 24, 2018

Incoming Mexico government: No deal to host U.S. asylum-seekers

Incoming Mexico government: No deal to host U.S. asylum-seekers

Mexico's incoming government denied a report Saturday that it plans to allow asylum-seekers to wait in the country while their claims move through U.S. immigration courts, a deal the Trump administration has been pursuing for months.
by Associated Press

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Difficult birth put project designed to reduce C-sections to the test

Difficult birth put project designed to reduce C-sections to the test

To avoid medically unnecessary C-sections, some hospitals have changed the way labor and delivery are handled from start to finish — but there are cases put that approach to the test.
by Martha Bebinger

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Police: Man killed by officer at Alabama mall was not the shooter

Protesters on Saturday marched through an Alabama shopping mall where police killed a black man they later acknowledged was not the triggerman in a Thanksgiving night shooting that wounded two people.
by Associated Press

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Memos to nobody: Inside the work of a neglected federal agency

Memos to nobody: Inside the work of a neglected federal agency

Each day Mark Robbins reads through federal workplace disputes, analyzes the cases and logs his legal opinions. When he's finished, he slips the files into a box and carries them to an empty room where they will sit and wait. For nobody.
by Associated Press

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Man arrested after allegedly driving onto Duluth airport runway

Man arrested after allegedly driving onto Duluth airport runway

The Duluth Police Department reported that a commercial flight was boarding at about 7 a.m. when authorities received a report of an unauthorized vehicle on airport grounds.
by MPR News Staff

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Rain helps contain California wildfire but slows searchers

Rain helps contain California wildfire but slows searchers

A deadly wildfire is nearly contained after several days of rain in Northern California, but searchers are still completing the meticulous task of combing through now-muddy ash and debris for signs of human remains.
by Associated Press

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French protesters angry over fuel taxes clash with police

French protesters angry over fuel taxes clash with police

French police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent demonstrators in Paris on Saturday, as thousands gathered in the capital and beyond and staged road blockades to vent anger against rising fuel taxes.
by Associated Press

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Turning chillier on Sunday as a potent winter storm impedes travel well to our south

Turning chillier on Sunday as a potent winter storm impedes travel well to our south

Saturday has been a rather bleak day across Minnesota with widespread low clouds, some fog, and a bit of mixed precipitation in the northeast. Chillier for Sunday Meteorologists call it “cold advection” when colder air is moving into an area. That is what is coming our way for Sunday. Expect afternoon high temmperatures from the…
by Bill Endersen

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In Iraq, a race to protect the crumbling bricks of ancient Babylon

In Iraq, a race to protect the crumbling bricks of ancient Babylon

A U.S.-funded conservation project is shoring up the brick walls of the ancient city. The hope is that Babylon will qualify for UNESCO World Heritage status.
by Jane Arraf

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Outgoing Michigan governor pushing for Great Lakes pipeline

Outgoing Michigan governor pushing for Great Lakes pipeline

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder hopes to use the final weeks of his tenure to lock in a deal allowing construction of a hotly debated oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes — a plan his successor opposes but may be powerless to stop.
by Associated Press

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Three years missing, wedding ring returned to MN woman

Three years ago, Vicki Wilner, of Cleveland, Minn., misplaced her wedding ring while on a trip to Arizona. She looked everywhere for it but finally gave up any hope of finding it.
by Bob Collins

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How a 1968 disaster in a coal mine changed the industry

How a 1968 disaster in a coal mine changed the industry

A mine disaster 50 years ago in West Virginia helped shape a new regulatory framework for the health and safety of coal miners. Surviving family members are still looking for justice.
by Molly Born

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Cooling trend; Sunday winter storm for southern Iowa and parts of Illinois and SE Wisconsin

Cooling trend; Sunday winter storm for southern Iowa and parts of Illinois and SE Wisconsin

On average, November is our cloudiest month of the year in the Twin Cities metro area. A quick check of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport stats for Nov. 2018 shows that we’ve only seen three days with mostly sunny skies. Our Saturday will be another mostly cloudy day. Temperature trends Our Saturday highs happened around midnight,…
by Ron Trenda

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After band’s bus crashes, rival team band learns fight song in time for game

After band’s bus crashes, rival team band learns fight song in time for game

The University of Washington and Washington State University played their big rivalry game Friday, but the UW band couldn't make it to the game. One of the the three busses carrying the band overturned on a highway on the way to the game in Pullman and the band canceled the trip.
by Bob Collins

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Holiday brings food donations - and mixed feelings - at homeless encampment

Donations of food and clothes flooded into the Minneapolis homeless encampment on Thursday for Thanksgiving. But many at the encampment do not celebrate the holiday because of its historical connection to massacres of native people.
by Max Nesterak

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