MPR News PM Update

July 26, 2024

Happy weekend! Welcome to a properly steamy summer weekend in Minnesota: Saturday's high = 90 degrees; Sunday's is slightly cooler with possible T-storms Up Nort. Get the latest on Updraft.
Edina sued after police subdue man in mental health crisis

Kyle Moore’s call for help outside Southdale mall in October 2019 ended in disaster for him after Edina police arrived. He’s now permanently damaged. His family says they can’t get answers from police or prosecutors as to why it happened.

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Meet the summer Olympians and Paralympians with Minnesota ties headed for Paris

Have the Olympics streaming right now? Almost 40 athletes with Minnesota ties are competing in the Olympic and Paralympic games this summer. MPR News will be tracking how the athletes with Minnesota ties are doing throughout the games.

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🏅 Hmong senator en route to Paris to support Suni Lee, helped bring gymnastics trials to Minnesota
About two dozen Minnesotans, including gold medalist and St. Paul native Suni Lee, will attend the unconventional and unprecedented Opening Ceremony of the Summer Games in Paris on Friday. “She’s the next generation of my culture,” Sen. Foung Hawj, DFL-St. Paul, said.
🚗 From ‘Cork Truck’ to ‘Garden-Rainbow-Space-Mushroom-Whatever’: The Minnesota ArtCars Parade Celebrates 30 Years
“It’s really weird,” camp-goer Ivy Thompson says. “The main thing we’ve been taught about this sort of stuff is: Don’t paint on a car, don’t scratch up a car. Now they’re like, ‘Hey, kids, go scratch and paint the car.’”
⛏️ Stauber cites mineral mining as one reason for Trump’s appeal in northern Minnesota
"He’s going to address the economy. He’s going to address foreign policy. He’s going to address our southern border," said 8th District congressman Pete Stauber, referring to former President Donald Trump.
🏥 3-year-old Twin Cities boy unlikely to survive dog attack injuries
Three-year-old Covil Allen was attacked at a dog sale in the backyard of a Brooklyn Park home. The warrant says other adults on the scene tried to pull the dogs off the child until first responders arrived and transported him to the hospital. Organizers of an online fundraiser for the family wrote that parents are making arrangements for their son to be an organ donor.
🌭 Critical DMs: The brat and the brät, or the semiotics of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
Alex Cipolle: So we’re saying Harris is coded Gen-X and Walz is coded Boomer. Let’s figure out the signifiers. Max Sparber: Exactly. Or, as we realized yesterday, Harris is coded Brat, as in the Charli XCX album, while Walz? Cipolle: Brat as well, but different pronunciation. The Minnesota grilling variation.
🚀 From giant Viking ships to Air Force rockets: See it all at the museums of Fargo-Moorhead
The area’s museum scene is “definitely family oriented and family friendly,” Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County Executive Director Maureen Kelly Jonason said. Local museums are slowly making a comeback after the pandemic, she said, and she hopes more folks will get out and explore them for education, art and entertainment.
📚 Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Sweet Blue Distance’ and ‘The Frozen River’
Call the midwife: Jolie Hughes of Morgan Hill Bookstore in New London, N.H., recommends two recent historical fiction books that both feature midwives — one real, one fictional — set at different points within American history.
🌧️ July showed record-breaking precipitation despite dry weather in earlier months
Rain and flooding in July allowed for a record-high statewide average precipitation of 21.22 inches, according to climatologist and meteorologist Mark Seeley. At this rate, many climate stations in Minnesota will likely end up with over 50 inches of precipitation for the year 2024, a number that is equivalent to the average annual amount in Athens, Ga.
– Amy Felegy, MPR News
 

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