June 27, 2024

It will be dry in most of Minnesota for the evening with some rain in the western part of the state Thursday night. Get the latest on Updraft.

U of M faculty vote ‘no confidence’ in interim president, provost over Holocaust center hiring

The University of Minnesota’s Faculty Senate took a vote of no confidence Wednesday in Interim President Jeff Ettinger and Provost Rachel Croson, after the president paused the hiring process for the new director of the U’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

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Owners of flood-imperiled Rapidan Dam Store vow to reopen; community rallies to support family

The rain-swollen river has carved an increasingly large channel around the Rapidan Dam. That erosion toppled the home belonging to the Hruska family on Tuesday night.

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🤸🏽‍♀️ Minnesota competitors gear up as U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials begin in Minneapolis

The nation’s best gymnasts are in Minneapolis this week, vying for spots at the Summer Olympics in Paris. The Olympic-hopeful gymnasts are competing to be among the five men and five women who will go for gold in the Summer Games.

💰 Alleged cash courier pleads not guilty to bribing Feeding Our Future juror

Ladan Mohamed Ali made her first appearance before Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko in St. Paul on Thursday. Ali, 31, of Seattle, is one of five people charged with trying to bribe a woman known publicly as juror 52 as the trial was wrapping up.

🗳️ Minnesota voters can vote early beginning Friday. Here’s how to cast a ballot.

Starting Friday, Minnesota voters can cast their ballots for Republican and Democratic primaries in numerous state and federal races.

🦬 Tribes honor the birth of rare white buffalo and reveal its name: Wakan Gli

In a gathering near a picturesque lake outside Yellowstone National Park, hundreds of people cheered Wednesday as a Native American leader spoke the name revealed on a painted hide for a rare white buffalo that was born in the park earlier this month: Wakan Gli, which means "Return Sacred" in Lakota.

✈️At the factory that builds the 737 Max, Boeing rethinks how it trains new hires

Boeing assembles the 737 in a massive factory here that can hold more than a dozen unfinished planes, with their shiny green fuselages lined up nose to tail.

– Madelyn Bonkoski, MPR News

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