Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm told reporters Friday that the omicron variant is spreading “like wildfire” here and across the country and “we just need to expect that it’s going to be the norm for us in coming weeks.” While omicron appears to cause less severe illness, Malcolm said it remains a danger to the unvaccinated and medically vulnerable.
The Minnesota Hospital Association begged people not to come to emergency rooms seeking COVID tests or other nonemergency care, noting a “high volume” of patients driving up wait times for medical emergencies at several hospitals.
“We have run out of words to describe what we are undergoing — a crisis does not even come close,” the group said, adding, “hospitals are literally full … ICUs are full, emergency departments are full, medical-surgical units are full, hallways are full and surgeries are being canceled.”
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Districts across Minnesota including St. Anthony-New Brighton, Robbinsdale, Worthington and more are shifting to distance learning or canceling classes in response to a surge of COVID cases among students and staff.
The Twin Cities will be near 30 degrees Saturday afternoon after dropping to minus 17 Friday morning. In Bemidji, it my be a 60-degree swing. Then comes Sunday.
Five of Hennepin County's seven commissioners and a Minneapolis City Council member have joined others that have called for Sheriff Dave Hutchinson, who was recently convicted of drunken driving, to resign.
The city of Minneapolis saw an increase in gun violence victims that were women in 2021, even when accounting for a year of record gunfire. Haneefah King's life was changed forever when she was shot walking from a bus stop in 2016.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys for three former Minneapolis officers who are charged in the death of George Floyd are asking a judge to postpone their state trial while a federal civil rights trial goes forward.
A judge announced the sentences in a Glynn County, Ga., courtroom Friday, about six weeks after a jury found the men guilty in a case widely seen as racially motivated.
Poitier was the first African American to win a Best Actor Oscar, for 1963's “Lilies of the Field.” His good looks and smooth, commanding presence made him an icon to generations of moviegoers.
The viruses that cause colds, the flu and COVID-19 are spread the same way — through droplets from the nose and mouth of infected people. And they can all be spread before a person realizes they're infected.
Minneapolis firefighters came to the aid of a woman being pursued by a man Thursday night, sheltering the woman and then detaining the man after he drove into the fire station's garage doors.
Several of the key facts of the Jan. 6 insurrection are indisputable. And yet millions on the right do dispute them. Here's a look at how that happened.
