 | | After 50 years, ‘Birkie Fever’ still running hot for northern Wisconsin cross-country ski race |
Long before the American Birkebeiner grew into the largest cross-country ski race in North America, attracting more than 10,000 skiers from around the country and world, it was a far-fetched idea of Tony Wise, an entrepreneur from Hayward, Wis., intent on luring more people to his hometown.
Wise needed skiers. One of his first recruits was Ernie St. Germain. On Tuesday, St. Germain raced his 50th Berkie. | |
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 | | Hennepin County Attorney's Office hosts expungement clinic |
It’s a chance for anyone with an adult felony case that was prosecuted by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office to apply to have their records sealed.
Old records can stand in the way of people getting jobs and housing, long after they’ve completed the accountability process, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said. | |
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What else we're watching:
| BCA releases search warrant, new details in Burnsville domestic violence call. The warrant said officers initially made contact with the person who called 911 as well as Shannon Gooden. At one point, “Gooden retreated into a bedroom and barricaded himself. Officers negotiated for Gooden to surrender, but he did not cooperate."
Judge cuts jury award in St. Paul police shooting by two-thirds. A federal judge has sharply reduced the $11.5 million dollar judgment awarded to the mother of Cordale Handy, who was killed by St. Paul police in 2017. The judge called the $10 million in compensatory damages that were part of the jury’s verdict “patently excessive,” and cut the total amount of the award to $4 million.
Federal judge affirms MyPillow's Mike Lindell must pay $5M in election data dispute. The award is in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proves China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden. Lindell said he plans to appeal.
E-bike head trauma soars as helmet use falls. A new study shows that nearly 8,000 e-bike riders sought hospital care for head injuries in 2022. It's a huge increase and the majority of the injured riders were not wearing helmets.
Oklahoma police say nonbinary teen's death was not result of injuries from high school fight. A 16-year-old Oklahoma high school student who died a day after an altercation in a school restroom that may have been prompted by bullying over gender identity did not die as a result of injuries sustained in the fight, police said Wednesday.
The International Space Station retires soon. NASA won't run its future replacement. Since its first modules launched at the end of 1998, the International Space Station has been orbiting 250 miles above Earth. But at the end of 2030, NASA plans to crash the ISS into the ocean after it is replaced with a new space station, a reminder that nothing within Earth's orbit can stay in space forever
— Sam Stroozas, MPR News
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