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A man is in critical condition after being shot in a confrontation with St. Paul police. And work continues to reopen Highway 13 in Mendota Heights. It’s been closed for nearly five months due to a falling hillside.
A northern Minnesota woman is facing felony charges for allegedly forging signatures on material for two absentee ballots.
And Minneapolis city officials are urging Hennepin County to close its solid waste incinerator by the end of 2027. That timetable is faster than the one adopted by the county, which resolved to close the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center — also known as HERC — sometime between 2028 and 2040.
Three people are dead and three others are in critical condition after a pair of shootings at Minneapolis homeless encampments over the weekend. And it's one week and one day until the election. On Sunday, DFL Senator Amy Klobuchar and her Republican challenger Royce White met in a debate.
President Joe Biden apologized today for abuses suffered by children at Native American boarding schools.
And a St. Paul man has been charged with criminal vehicular homicide for allegedly causing a chain-reaction crash that left one person dead and 10 injured on Wednesday night.
Police investigating the death of a 3-year-old boy in Minneapolis this week say the child apparently shot himself. And Minnesota Republicans want more eyes on absentee ballots cast in the state after GOP officials raised concerns about ballot security following an incident in Edina last week.
Drought conditions continue to expand and deepen across Minnesota heading into the final days of October.
And a man who allegedly went on a violent rampage in Minneapolis and Kandiyohi County earlier this week has been charged with several felonies.
The city of Falcon Heights voted Wednesday night to renew its police partnership with St. Anthony. Falcon Heights ended that relationship in 2017 after a St. Anthony police officer fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop.
Murder charges are expected soon against the suspect who allegedly killed a man in an attempted carjacking near Willmar Tuesday following a domestic violence incident in Minneapolis. Also on the podcast, containment of a wildfire burning for nearly a week in east-central Minnesota is now up to 70 percent. The estimated size of the Evergreen Fire remains at 167 acres. It’s in a remote part of the Chengwatana State Forest, east of Pine City.
One person is dead, another is injured and a suspect is in custody after a series of shootings and gunfire Tuesday that started in Minneapolis and ended near Willmar.
Nearly a dozen people were arrested yesterday evening after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied a building on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.
Metro Transit said it's expanding the new Gold Line bus rapid transit route into downtown Minneapolis.
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