May 3, 2024

☀️ Sunny Friday! Temperatures will warm well into the 60s to even near 70 degrees in parts of southern Minnesota. A few showers possible in far western Minnesota. Get the latest on Updraft.

Hennepin County could spend up to $1 million to prosecute case against state trooper

Hennepin County could spend up to $1 million to bring on outside attorneys to prosecute a Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan. The attorneys will be paid a rate of $850 dollars an hour while paralegals will be paid $250 an hour.

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Minnesota teen honored by Girl Scouts USA after saving the lives of her mother and grandmother

Fifteen-year-old senior Girl Scout Ilona Delaney, a citizen of Red Lake Nation, was honored with the Bronze Cross for risking her own life to save her grandmother and mother from drowning during a family boating trip last summer.

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🌷 Allergies and climate: Pollen in Minnesota comes earlier with warmer temperatures

Minnesota is now in peak tree pollen season. Studies have linked warming temperatures to longer and more intense pollen seasons in the U.S.

🪧 Arrests of protesters exceed 2,300 as police clear more U.S. campus encampments

While University of Minnesota officials reached an agreement with protesters not to disrupt commencements, weeks of demonstrations and police confrontations at college campuses nationwide have resulted in more than 2,300 arrests.

🕯️ Sharon Lubinski, first openly gay Minneapolis police officer and U.S. Marshal, dies at 71

Sharon Lubinski came out as the first openly gay Minneapolis police officer in 1993. She later became an assistant police chief and a U.S. Marshal.

🏛️ Politics Friday: Unfinished business at the Capitol

MPR News host Brian Bakst speaks with a key player in the debate over a nearly $1 billion construction financing plan as it comes together, and a guest who will preview a major Senate ethics hearing.

🎞️ Cube Critics discuss ‘Fallout’ and ‘Civil War’

Cube Critics Jacob Aloi and Alex V. Cipolle discuss dystopian media.

📖 South Dakota Gov. Noem erroneously describes meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in new book

Gov. Kristi Noem's office said Friday that the story of the meeting was an error as further scrutiny was put on the Republican governor’s life story.

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