News in :90 – May 1, 2023

After two days of searching, the FBI reportedly has “zero leads” on catching the gunman who “fatally shot five neighbors” Friday night in Texas. General Mills has issued a “nationwide recall of its Gold Medal flour after discovering salmonella during a sampling of a 5-pound bag.”

Sports in :60 – May 1, 2023

The St. Thomas baseball team secured its first home series win of the season on Sunday. St. Thomas softball was swept by South Dakota in a three game series in Vermillion.

News in :90 – April 28, 2023

The chairman of the BBC quit Friday after a report found that he failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest. Abortion bans in deeply conservative Nebraska and South Carolina each fell a single vote short of passing in their legislatures. Police in Minneapolis are searching for a man suspected of setting fires that damaged two mosques earlier this week.

News in :90 – April 27th, 2023

The Minneapolis NAACP sued the city of Minneapolis Wednesday over allegations that police officers used phony social media accounts to spy on activists without a legitimate public safety purpose. Ya Ya the giant panda landed Thursday in Shanghai after departing from the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee, where she spent the past 20 years on loan. U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday. Meanwhile, electronic cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults.

News in :90 – April 26, 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a “long and meaningful” phone conversation. The Minnesota House is debating a “red flag law” to allow the temporary confiscation of guns from people judged to be an immediate threat to themselves or others. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the case of a 94-year-old woman who lost her one-bedroom condo in minneapolis over 2,300 dollars in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties.

News in :90 – April 25, 2023

President Joe Biden announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, jury selection is set to begin in a trail over E. Jean Carroll’s claim that she was raped by former President Donald Trump and the National Weather Service has maintained a flood warning for the Mississippi River. Owen Larson has today’s News in :90.

News in :90 – April 24, 2023

Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who killed Duante Wright was released from prison. Jury selection began Monday in the federal death penalty trial of a truck driver accused of shooting to death 11 Jewish worshippers in 2018. Gunfire at a huge prom after-party at a home in Texas injured nine teenagers.

News in :90 – April 21, 2023

The holiday of Eid Al-Fitr ushered in a day of prayers and joy for Muslims worldwide on Friday. President Joe Biden on Friday plans to sign an executive order that would create the White House Office of Environmental Justice. An arbitration panel ordered MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell to pay five million to a software engineer for breach of contract in a dispute over data.

News in :90 – April 20, 2023

SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight Thursday but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Strong storms with tornadoes and hail killed at least two people in the central U.S., injuring others, destroying homes and leaving thousands without power. The Republican-led House passed a bill Thursday that would bar federally supported schools and colleges from allowing transgender athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth was male to compete on girls or women’s sports teams.

News in :90 – April 19, 2023

Federal investigators say BNSF railroad is analyzing a section of fractured rail after last month’s fiery derailment. Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion voting systems nearly $800 million in a settlement over election claims. India is on track to become the world’s most populous nation.

News in :90 – April 18, 2023

Police in New York have arrested two men for allegedly setting up a secret police station for a Chinese provincial police agency. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order containing more than 50 directives to increase access to child care and improve the work life of caregivers. Minnesota House Democrats rolled out their main tax bill of the session Monday, proposing nearly $3 billion in breaks for the largest tax cut in state history.

News in :90 – April 17, 2023

Alabama law enforcement officers Sunday were imploring people to come forward with information about a shooting. The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine company’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News put off the opening of the trial Monday. One sheriff’s deputy died on his 44th birthday and two other law enforcement officers were injured after a shootout in west-central Minnesota.