The University of St. Thomas campus joined a suburban Minneapolis community in mourning after learning that one of the three first responders who was shot and killed Sunday was a relative of an adjunct professor.
Two men charged with murder in last week’s shooting after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade were strangers who pulled out guns and began firing within seconds of starting an argument, according to court documents released Tuesday.
As monks chanted evening prayers in the dimly lit Saint John’s University church, members of the student LGBTQ organization, QPLUS, were meeting in a dedicated, Pride flag-lined lounge at the institution’s sister Benedictine college, a few miles away across Minnesota farmland.
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will mount a third White House campaign, launching an early start to the 2024 contest. The announcement comes just a week after an underwhelming midterm showing for Republicans and will force the party to decide whether to embrace a candidate whose refusal to accept defeat in 2020 pushed American democracy to the brink.
Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 murder of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, after the jury said Thursday that it could not unanimously agree that he should be executed.
Minnesota will start sending out payments to more than 1 million Minnesotan frontline workers Wednesday, in an effort to recognize their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Every person who applied will receive an email by Wednesday informing them of whether or not they were approved, which has left some St. Thomas students “patiently waiting” for their email and others “excited” about the result. Cam Kauffman has the story.
The Minneapolis mayor on Friday imposed a moratorium on no-knock warrants after Amir Locke was killed this week as a SWAT team executed a search warrant.
State agents are investigating Wednesday after a Minneapolis police officer was involved in a shooting downtown.
LONDON (AP) — Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told British lawmakers Monday that the social media giant stokes online hate and extremism, fails to protect children from harmful content and lacks any incentive to fix the problems, providing momentum for efforts by European governments working on stricter regulation of tech companies.
This is News in :90 for Friday, Sept. 23, 2016.
A woman who was molested by a nun is teaming up with a priest convicted of sexual misconduct to create a resource center for victims of sexual abuse.
This is News in :90 for Friday, May 15, 2015.
