MPR News PM Update

Sept. 19, 2023

🌡️ It's getting warmer! Tuesday and Wednesday will have highs running 10 to 20 degrees above normal. Rain looks increasingly likely heading into the weekend. Get the latest on Updraft.

Minneapolis council moves away from co-locating 1st and 3rd police precincts downtown
The Minneapolis City Council on Tuesday decided to abandon a proposal to house 3rd Precinct officers in a building downtown for the next decade.
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Investigation into State Patrol killing of Ricky Cobb II goes to prosecutors
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office says it’s now reviewing the findings of an investigation into the July 31 fatal shooting of a Black man by a Minnesota state trooper along Interstate 94 in Minneapolis.
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🚨 White supremacist rhetoric banners wave over Wayzata's Highway 12
A small group of people gathered over the weekend in Wayzata, Minn., on a pedestrian bridge over Highway 12, displaying banners and signs with white supremacist rhetoric on them.
🕯️ Minnesota hockey legend Henry Boucha dies at age 72
The star Ojibwe player led Warroad High School to the state tournament in 1969, earned a silver medal in the 1972 Winter Olympics and played the NHL with his trademark headband.
📷 Photos: Northern lights danced across Minnesota overnight
Photographers around the state shared some of their snapshots of the northern lights spreading their beauty overnight into Tuesday. They did not disappoint.
🦠 Minnesota sees demand rising for at-home COVID tests
The Minnesota Department of Health is seeing requests rise for its free COVID-19 self-test program. The state program allows households to order four free self-tests, while supplies last.
- Nicole Johnson, MPR News
 
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