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Family, friends demand answers on anniversary of police killing Winston Smith in Mpls

Family, friends demand answers on anniversary of police killing Winston Smith in Mpls

Dozens of community members showed up at Powderhorn Recreation Center in south Minneapolis on Friday afternoon to support 32-year-old Smith’s family, who still have little in the way of details about what transpired when police killed him a year ago. 
by Grace Birnstengel

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Scuba diver dies after being pulled from Lake Minnetonka

Scuba diver dies after being pulled from Lake Minnetonka

Officials began using sonar to look for the man, but a fellow diver found his body just 30 feet from his last known location.
by Kaila White

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Duluth City Councilor Renee Van Nett dies at age 52

Duluth City Councilor Renee Van Nett dies at age 52

Duluth City Councilor Renee Van Nett, the first Native American woman elected to the Duluth council, died Friday after a brief battle with cancer. Duluth’s mayor called her “an incredibly powerful woman who lived life with clarity and purpose.”
by MPR News Staff

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Disparities remain in opioid treatment access, Mayo Clinic study finds

Disparities remain in opioid treatment access, Mayo Clinic study finds

A new study from Mayo Clinic finds ongoing gaps in access to prescriptions for a commonly used drug to treat opioid use disorder. The gap particularly affects older people, women and Black and Hispanic populations.
by Michelle Wiley

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‘It’s pretty devastating’: Turkey farmer hopes worst is over after avian flu loss

‘It’s pretty devastating’: Turkey farmer hopes worst is over after avian flu loss

During the last avian flu outbreak seven years ago, the central Minnesota turkey farms owned by Matt Herdering's family managed to escape unscathed. This time around, they weren't so lucky.
by Kirsti Marohn

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Jury finds Gregory Ulrich guilty of murder, 10 other charges in Minn. clinic attack

Jury finds Gregory Ulrich guilty of murder, 10 other charges in Minn. clinic attack

Ulrich shot five people Feb. 9, 2021 and set off three pipe bombs. Medical assistant Lindsay Overbay, 37, died of a gunshot wound. Four other clinic staffers survived but suffered serious injuries.
by Matt Sepic

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No one hurt after concrete wall collapses outside Rosedale Macy's

No one hurt after concrete wall collapses outside Rosedale Macy's

City officials in Roseville say they’ve condemned a parking ramp at the Rosedale Center mall after a massive chunk of concrete wall fell from the upper level onto a roadway that passes right in front of a door to the Macy’s store. 
by Tim Nelson

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'Pure devastation': Rainy Lake residents fill sandbags, fight exhaustion as floodwaters rise

'Pure devastation': Rainy Lake residents fill sandbags, fight exhaustion as floodwaters rise

About 250 homes have suffered some sort of damage on the south shore of Rainy Lake, east of International Falls on the Minnesota-Canadian border. It’s a slow-motion crisis that may not start to ebb until mid to late June.
by Dan Kraker

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New funding expands chronic wasting disease research

New funding expands chronic wasting disease research

The Minnesota Legislature approved more than $4 million in funding for research into chronic wasting disease, an always fatal neurological disease in deer and other cervids.
by Dan Gunderson

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