Friday should be warmer and brighter with sunshine across most of the state. Highs will be well into the 40s and 50s. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Coming up on Morning Edition: Tonight, millions of people will watch an epic basketball matchup: UConn vs. Iowa in the NCAA Women's Final Four. The game pitting record breaker Caitlin Clark against Minnesota's own Paige Bueckers is the biggest thing in sports right now. Here to talk about it is Minnesota Lynx General Manager Clare Duwelius.
Coming up at 11 a.m.: In her new novel “Village Weavers,” author Myriam J. A. Chancy draws on her Haitian roots to share a story about friendship, family and what can stitch us back together after we are ripped apart. Chancy joins host Kerri Miller for this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas to talk about the grief of a ruptured friendship, the love of ancestral lands and how Haiti today bears both the scars and the hopes of its past.
The eighth inning was emblematic of the Twins' struggles. With Minnesota down by two runs, Carlos Correa led off with a double. But he remained stuck at second as Scott Barlow struck out Carlos Santana, Manuel Margot and Willi Castro in order to end the threat.
“We, obviously, didn’t get the job done when we had the opportunity,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “We put ourselves in pretty good spots. Punchouts do hurt you with runners in scoring position. At least giving yourself a shot and putting it in play is probably a better scenario for us.”
With some ambulance services in greater Minnesota facing severe financial pressures, the Legislature is considering a rescue package for rural EMS providers. How much and in what form are the driving questions in the Capitol debate.
“I think a lot of people don’t understand they’re at risk for being an ambulance desert,” Dodge Center emergency medical technician Brooke Yennie said. “It’s when those true emergencies have happened — like cardiac arrest or your child is choking — that you need an ambulance. And you would want one that’s obviously within 10, maybe five minutes.”
Two of college basketball’s biggest stars will face off when Iowa and Caitlin Clark meet UConn and Paige Bueckers in the Final Four.
Clark is a two-time National Player of the Year trying to guide the Hawkeyes to their first NCAA championship. Bueckers has returned to form this year after dealing with knee injuries that cost her most of two seasons
It’s not that women’s basketball hasn’t had stars before. It has. Just never quite as many as this who play quite like this.
Among shrinking news landscape, Southwest News Media announces closure of several Minnesota newspapers. Southwest News Media will stop publishing newspapers by the end of April. The news organization announced the closures Thursday, saying newspapers across the country are facing revenue challenges.
White Earth Chair celebrates recent successes, says land campaign will continue. During opening remarks of the White Earth Nation State of the Nation Address on Thursday at the Shooting Star Event Center, Chairman Michael Fairbanks stressed the importance of tribal sovereignty and the role it’s had in the tribe’s recent successes to the packed audience.
Job Interview: The highs and lows of being a Minnesota Twins scoreboard operator. Scoreboard control-room operators for the Minnesota Twins aren’t usually in the spotlight, but their decisions during a game can be a key part of the fan experience. That’s why we put Jeremy Loosbrock in the spotlight for our Job Interview series.
