✊🏿 Where to celebrate Juneteenth around Minnesota. Cities around Minnesota are celebrating Juneteenth, also called “Freedom Day,” which commemorates the end of slavery in Galveston, Texas, two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation that freed enslaved Black people. Here’s where to go across Minnesota to join in on the festivities.
🐚 Hill Annex State Park closure means end to public fossil digs at Hill Annex Paleontology Project. Co-founder and paleontologist John Westgaard said that the closure of the state park is a loss, as it was the last publicly accessible fossil site in Minnesota.
⚾ Willie Mays, Giants’ electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ has died at 93. The center fielder, who played for the Minneapolis Millers, was baseball’s oldest living Hall of Famer. His over-the shoulder catch of a long drive in the 1954 World Series is baseball’s most celebrated defensive feat.
🏛️ New charges in anti-violence effort target Minneapolis gang. More alleged gang members are facing federal gun and drug charges as part of an ongoing crackdown. A grand jury has indicted 10 men allegedly connected to the 10z and 20z gang, which primarily operates south of downtown Minneapolis around Franklin and Chicago Avenues.
🕯️ ‘Joe was a living legend‘: Longtime criminal defense attorney Joe Friedberg dies at 87. Friedberg was involved in some of the most high-profile court cases in Minnesota in the last half century, including the Minnesota Vikings boat-party sex scandal and the U.S. Senate recount between Al Franken and Norm Coleman.
— Nicole Johnson and Anna Haecherl, MPR News
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