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Macalester president wants founder’s name removed from building
The president of the private liberal arts college in Minnesota is asking his board of trustees to remove the school founder’s name from a campus building over concerns about his racist and sexist views in the 1800s.
Man who shot school bus driver on Minneapolis interstate sentenced to 7 years
A judge sentenced a 32-year-old man to seven years for shooting and seriously wounding a school bus driver on a busy Minneapolis freeway. Kenneth Lilly pleaded guilty to first-degree assault. The only passenger on the bus, an 8-year-old girl, was not hit but continues to suffer psychological trauma.
U.S. Bank Stadium officials weigh options to reduce bird deaths
The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority says it could be seven to 10 months before it responds to recommendations to treat glass on U.S. Bank Stadium to mitigate bird deaths.
Minneapolis police report finding hundreds of additional untested rape kits
Minneapolis police and city officials announced Friday they’re looking into a recently discovered accounting error concerning the department’s backlog of untested rape kits. The number now sits at nearly 1,700, far more than the 194 reported in 2015.
U’s Raptor Center sees record number of injured bald eagles
Once wary and rare, the iconic birds of prey have become accustomed to people, and experts say that’s leading to a spike in injured birds.
In Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park, a push to count Asian-Americans
Across the nation, Asians are the least likely to be aware of and fill out the census form. A meeting Thursday will gather thoughts on how to encourage Asian residents in the two suburbs to respond to the questionnaire.
Minneapolis grants $18M to add lower-cost apartments
Forty percent of the units will be within reach of families making about $30,000 a year. Rent would not be much more than a week's income for them.
Muslim leaders call for hate crime investigation in mosque vandalism in Minneapolis
Surveillance video from the Salaam Cultural Center shows a person throwing rocks through a glass entry door and then kicking out the remaining broken glass around 3:40 a.m. Sunday. Muslim leaders in the Twin Cities are urging police and the FBI to investigate the incident as a hate crime.