News in :90 – Feb. 21, 2023

The St. Paul Police Department was on the scene of a fatal two-vehicle crash on Cretin Avenue North near the intersection of Mississippi River Boulevard across from Anderson Student Center and O’Shaughnessy Stadium on Monday.

The department tweeted that a passenger in one of the vehicles was killed, and a second was injured. The crash occurred shortly before 5 p.m.

Michigan State University students and faculty returned to the East Lansing campus Monday as the university resumed normal operations, one week after a gunman shot and killed three students and injured five others.

The university has been criticized by some in the community for returning too quickly. The editorial board of The State News, the student newspaper, wrote Thursday that they wouldn’t attend class next week, either in person or online. More time was needed to heal, the students wrote.

A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home, where she was with her paternal aunt’s family Monday.

The girl had been at the hospital since hours after the Feb. 6 earthquake. She was discharged Saturday and her aunt and uncle adopted her and gave her a new name, Afraa, after her late mother.

Afraa’s story has been widely shared in news reports and people from around the world have offered to help her, with some saying they would like to adopt her. However, the relatives who took her in said that, however hard their circumstances, the best place for the infant is with family.

Gwynn Vang can be reached at vang5129@stthomas.edu