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Cyberattack crashes Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board phone lines, officials investigate
In a statement to MPR News, the park board said its technology systems were attacked Tuesday morning by an unknown person or group. The phone lines are currently down, and park board staff are working to determine what information may have been accessed.
Vacant no more: Artists, creatives move into empty storefronts for new Minneapolis initiative
The city of Minneapolis awarded five arts organizations subsidized leases through its Vibrant Storefronts Initiative, aiming to transform vacant downtown spaces near Loring Park into a creative cultural hub and address the affordable space crisis for artists.
Equestrian center fire kills two horses, destroys part of facility
Nearly a hundred people worked to put out a large fire at the Minnesota Equestrian Center near Winona. There were no reported injuries to people, but two horses and a cat were killed.
Defendants in human smuggling case convicted on all counts
A jury in Fergus Falls took only about an hour to return verdicts of guilty on all charges to two men accused of human smuggling. The trial arose from the hypothermia deaths of a family from India who in January 2022 were directed to walk across the border from Canada into Minnesota during a bitterly cold snowstorm.
At least 15 people are sick in Minnesota from ground beef tied to E. coli recall
U.S. health officials say at least 15 people in Minnesota have been sickened by E. coli poisoning tied to a national recall of more than 160,000 pounds of potentially tainted ground beef.