Minneapolis police arrested a man who they believe is responsible for three shootings Wednesday, which left two people dead and two injured. Police say the shootings occurred within a few blocks of a homeless encampment.
On Tuesday, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced one count of second-degree murder and five counts of second-degree assault charges against the woman who plowed a car into a group of people in downtown Minneapolis, killing a 16-year-old girl and injuring five others.
A teenage student and a math teacher are being remembered at funerals that took place 10 days after they were killed in a mass shooting at a Georgia high school.
Israeli airstrikes have hit central and southern Gaza and killed at least 14 people as friends and family members of a Turkish-American activist killed by an Israeli soldier buried her in Turkey.
After an extremely wet summer, Minnesota is trending drier. The U.S. Forest Service has closed 19 campsites and several portages in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Alcohol was not involved in the crash, according to the State Patrol. The collision in which nearly two dozen people were hurt is still under investigation.
At least 16 people have died at the park this year, including five fatalities in August alone. No single factor is to blame, but several deaths have followed stretches of extreme weather.