Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao has been convinced of aiding and abetting manslaughter, the Writers Guild of America launched a strike for the first time in 15 years and an interstate highway in Illinois reopened today after a windstorm led to crashes that killed at least six people yesterday. Owen Larson has today’s News in :90.
The St. Thomas football team’s home opener against the University of St. Francis (Ill.), originally scheduled for Sept. 4, has been canceled due to COVID-19 protocols. Sports Editor Olivia Paradise has the story.
States have started reporting the demographic data of who is getting sick with COVID-19, and minority groups are being affected disproportionately. Columnist Kayla Mayer argues the pandemic has exposed the structural racism in society.
In TommieMedia’s fifth COVID-19 in my community report, reporter Andrés Tejeda reports from Chicago on the city’s new “Stay Home. Hit Play” initiative, designed to keep Chicago students engaged and educated during the Illinois stay-at-home order.
St. Thomas is the first institution in the Twin Cities to obtain digital cadavers, Attorney General William Barr said he will release a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation, and a 23-year-old man faces a U.S. magistrate Tuesday on a charge that he lied to federal agents about being a missing child from Illinois. University Affairs Editor Kat Barrett has today’s News in :90.
Several hundred police officers from around the country attended a funeral Monday for a suburban Chicago lieutenant shot and killed last week.
Authorities have recovered video that they hope will provide significant help to detectives searching for three men wanted in the fatal shooting of an Illinois police officer, the lead investigator said Thursday.
Authorities broadened the hunt Wednesday for three suspects wanted in the fatal shooting of a popular Illinois police officer.
