After a cold start to the week, Wednesday will be considerably milder. Highs will be in the 40s across southern Minnesota and in the 30s north. A weak cool front will drop temps slightly for Thursday. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Coming up on Morning Edition: With the unveiling of plans for a new $5 billion hospital campus , Mayo Clinic is fulfilling a commitment made a decade ago to maintain Rochester as a global health care destination. Pamela Wheelock, chair of the Destination Medical Center board, joins host Cathy Wurzer with details on the plan.
Coming up at 9 a.m.: Click Here is a special five-part series about the people making and breaking our digital world. Hosted by former NPR Investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and produced by Recorded Future News, Click Here uses deep reporting and investigative journalism to introduce listeners to the people behind today’s cybersecurity and intelligence headlines. You’ll meet not just the hackers, but the people who are chasing them.
A state administrative law judge has dealt another blow to the proposed NorthMet copper-nickel mine, by recommending that the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources deny the key “Permit to Mine” the facility needs to operate.
In a 40-page ruling issued late Tuesday, Judge James E. LaFave found that the mine’s proposed method of storing reactive mine waste, by lining the mine’s tailings waste facility with a type of clay known as bentonite, “is not a practical and workable reclamation technique.”
A man serving life in prison for a 2004 murder got the rare chance on Tuesday to argue in court for his exoneration. A jury convicted Marvin Haynes, 35, of fatally shooting flower shop owner Harry “Randy” Sherer, 55, during a robbery in north Minneapolis.
Haynes was 16 at the time. Great North Innocence Project attorneys argue that Minneapolis police misled witnesses with suggestive lineup techniques. Several have since recanted their testimony.
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With new coach, Wild beat Blues 3-1 to end seven-game slide. Matt Boldy added an insurance goal late and Filip Gustavsson made 23 saves for his first win in eight starts for Minnesota, playing its first game under coach John Hynes.
Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong. Sports Illustrated is the latest media company to see its reputation damaged by being less than forthcoming — if not outright dishonest — about who or what is writing its stories at the dawn of the artificial intelligence age. Rosalynn Carter honored by family, friends and presidents, including husband Jimmy. Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former U.S. first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most.
