The Minnesota National Guard will deploy 400 members to reinforce nursing staff at long term care facilities, an email from the university stated St. Thomas will have a nursing program beginning in the fall of 2022 and this Thanksgiving, Target will no longer open its stores after the pandemic forced it to close on the holiday and extend its seasonal sales. Nicole Gutierrez has today’s News in :90.
Life expectancy in the United States has dropped due to COVID-19, National Guard troops will be in the Minneapolis area during the trial of Derek Chauvin and St. Thomas women’s hockey lost against Hamline University Wednesday night. Ad/PR representative Isabel Crosby has today’s News in :90.
President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.
The University of St. Thomas closed its Minneapolis campus at 5 p.m. Thursday and will be “operating on reduced hours” from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. through the weekend amid civil unrest that broke out in downtown Minneapolis Wednesday night.
The Minneapolis mayor imposed a curfew Wednesday night and requested National Guard help after unrest that included violence and store looting broke out downtown following what authorities said was misinformation about the suicide death of a Black homicide suspect.
University of St. Thomas leaders reached out to the campus community in multiple emails midweek, responding to the death of 47-year-old George Floyd, a black man who was handcuffed and died Monday in Minneapolis after an officer kneeled on his neck for almost eight minutes. Director Emily Haugen has the story.
For the first time in university history, St. Thomas’ dining services will offer halal options for students, faculty, and staff beginning in Fall 2019. The Minnesota Department of Transportation is continuing its work on repairing potholes on I-35W starting today. California will call in the National Guard to help protect communities from devastating forest fires starting in April. President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan announced that he plans to step down from his position on Tuesday after three decades in power, raising uncertainty over the future course of the Central Asian country. Ad/PR representative Alexis Okafor has today’s News in :90.
