On Wednesday, St. John’s University announced the Tommie-Johnnie football game next season will be held at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. 

The 90th and final Tommie-Johnnie game is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 7. St. Thomas will be leaving the Division III MIAC next year after it was involuntarily removed last May.

Firefighters faced bitter cold and gusty winds when battling a large house fire on lake Minnetonka’s northeastern shore Wednesday night in Wayzata. The house under construction was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived, according to officials. 

Neighbors say the house was nearly finished. Hennepin County property records show the house that burned was replacing a razed home that sold for $5.4 million several years ago.

Wayzata Fire Chief Kevin Klapprich said because there are no hydrants in the area, water was hauled in by tanker. 

Flames were so intense they could be seen from the other end of the lake, and the smoke was showing up on the weather radar. 

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar began working Wednesday to turn her better-than-expected third-place finish – and a surge of fundraising – into enough momentum to be competitive in next-up Nevada, South Carolina and beyond. 

For Klobuchar, that means consolidating establishment and moderate voters, picking up traction with black and Latino Democrats and introducing herself to most everyone else. 

Her campaign launched two new television and digital ads in Nevada, and she was heading to Las Vegas to hold a Thursday campaign rally and speak at a town hall sponsored by a major Latino rights group. She plans to stump over the next week in states that vote in the March 3 “Super Tuesday” contests, and is staffing up with help from the more than $6 million dollars she has raised since Friday’s debate.

Sara Thibault can be reached at thib9782@stthomas.edu.