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Statewide highs in the 20s. Clear skies into the evening, where lows will be in the mid teens for much of the state. It’ll get as cold as 5 degrees in some spots. More on 

Instead, a group of women have taken up the grim task of collecting the names of every domestic homicide victim in the state. Lawmakers use this data to inform their policy, but the number of killings never really decreases. MPR News’ Briana Bierschbach 

 on why the women who make the report say authorities need to do more.

Globe University students got some good news. 

The over 1,200 former criminal justice students who were deceived into believing false information about their degrees are eligible to get their tuition money back from the school, the state Supreme Court rules. As MPR News’ Peter Cox reports, the ruling 

could influence future consumer fraud cases

Election officials feel good about 2020. 

They told MPR News’ Tim Pugmire that the local elections earlier this week was 

 for next year, where many more people will head to the polls.

 “U.S. Bank Stadium and three downtown Minneapolis high-rise office buildings account for a high proportion of bird fatalities among 21 downtown buildings surveyed. The stadium and the three unidentified buildings were involved in 74% of bird collisions and 68% of bird fatalities among the buildings studied in a groundbreaking report on bird mortality released Wednesday,” 

reports Rochelle Olson for the Star Tribune

“Amy Klobuchar has a Pete Buttigieg problem,”

Bet you didn’t know Minnesota has the highest percentage of Swedish, Finnish, Hmong, Somali and Liberian people in the U.S. 

 is the most comprehensive look at heritage the country has seen, and the findings are interesting and insightful. Learn more about yourself and your neighbor 

What do you wish other Minnesotans knew about your cultural identity? 

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