St. Thomas seniors Derrick Diedrich, Pascale Kunda and Michael Sullivan were selected as the 2021 Tommie Award finalists, an annual honor given to a St. Thomas senior who, according to the university, “embodies the ideals of St. Thomas Aquinas through scholarship, leadership and campus involvement.”
Prosecutors unveiled chilling new security video in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial Wednesday, showing the mob of rioters breaking into the Capitol, smashing windows and doors and searching menacingly for Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as overwhelmed police begged on their radios for help.
St. Thomas sophomore Luke Stene, who produces and records his own music under the name Luke Makes Music, does just that from an unfamiliar location to most artists: his dorm room. University Affairs Editor Scout Mason and Photographer Casey Eakins have the story.
Opening arguments began Wednesday in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, there was a shooting at a clinic in Buffalo and a former St. Thomas student was sentenced to prison after calling in a bomb threat. Chief Video Editor Emily Rudie has today’s News in :90.
Former St. Thomas student Ray Ghansham Persaud, 22, was sentenced Tuesday to one year and one day in prison for calling a bomb threat into the university on Sept. 17, 2019.
A 67-year-old man unhappy with the health care he’d received opened fire at a clinic Tuesday, killing one person and wounding four others, and bomb technicians were investigating a suspicious device left there and others at a motel where he was staying, authorities said.
Women’s and men’s basketball, and men’s hockey games scheduled for Feb. 10 have been postponed “due to COVID-19 protocols,” St. Thomas Athletics said in statements issued Tuesday.
The Senate opened Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial Tuesday, the defeated former president charged by the House with inciting the deadly mob attack on the Capitol to overturn the election in what prosecutors call the “most grievous constitutional crime.”
The St. Thomas men’s basketball game was postponed Monday for COVID-19 reasons, St. Thomas Center for well-being reported a decline in COVID-19 cases for the third week in a row from 17 to 13. A hacker gained unauthorized access to the water controlling system in Florida.
Nine positive COVID-19 cases were reported last week by St. Thomas’ Center for Well-Being, marking the third week in a row with a case decline. Assignment Editor Joey Swanson and Design Manager Lauren Dettmer have the story.
Monday’s St. Thomas men’s basketball game at Bethel was postponed “due to COVID-19 protocols,” St. Thomas Athletics said in a statement. The game is the first postponement for the men’s basketball program.
Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial is set to begin Tuesday and St. Thomas offered its fourth free campus-wide testing event Thursday. Ad/PR Operations Manager Carly Scheuerman has today’s News in :90.
As St. Thomas students return to campus for spring semester, the Center for Well-Being offered its fourth free COVID-19 testing event on Thursday to track and limit the spread of COVID-19. Natalie Hoepner and Libby Simpson have the story and slideshow.
The St. Thomas men’s and women’s hockey games against Gustavus this weekend have been postponed “due to COVID-19 protocols,” St. Thomas Athletics said in a statement Friday. Reporter Andrés Tejeda has the story.
The Senate approved a measure allowing Democrats to push President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief plan and the NCAA announced Thursday that the 2020-2021 Division III winter championships have been cancelled. Ad Sales and Promotions Director Hope Hansen has today’s News in :90.
