Paul Huttner was the first meteorologist in the MPR News newsroom. “All Things Considered” listeners have relied on his weather chats for the last two decades.
Lindsey Vonn’s father said Monday that the American superstar will no longer race if he has any influence over her decision and that she will not return to the Winter Olympics after breaking her leg in the downhill over the weekend.
White House immigration official Tom Homan said more than 150 Minnesotans have been arrested for allegedly impeding, obstructing, or assaulting ICE officers. Of those, 85 have been charged. But lawyers say the charges are being reduced from felonies to misdemeanors or dismissed because the government doesn’t have a case.
Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development officials say the state’s new paid leave program is seeing a burst of interest since launching in January.
Minnesota curlers Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse are going for gold. The duo from Duluth guaranteed the U.S. its first Olympic medal in mixed doubles curling, reaching the final by rallying for a 9-8 semifinal victory over Italy on Monday.
A 22-year-old woman found fatally stabbed in St. Cloud on Saturday was the daughter of a candidate for Minnesota governor. The Republican Party of Minnesota said Jeff Johnson has suspended his campaign. Police said the victim’s husband is suspected of causing her death.
Scott Jensen, the Republican nominee for Minnesota governor four years ago, has dropped out of this year’s contest and will run for state auditor instead.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says his office has reached a settlement with the Trump administration to ensure the state receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education funding. That’s after the federal government last year threatened to withhold the funding.
A publicist for Bad Bunny confirmed to NPR that the little boy in a blue bunny hat detained by ICE in Minneapolis last month did not participate in the Super Bowl halftime show.
Lindsey Vonn knows the Olympic downhill course better than anyone. She’s won a record 12 World Cup races on the Olympia delle Tofane track and has a total of 20 podium results there stretching back to her very first on the entire circuit in 2004.
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