Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao has been convinced of aiding and abetting manslaughter, the Writers Guild of America launched a strike for the first time in 15 years and an interstate highway in Illinois reopened today after a windstorm led to crashes that killed at least six people yesterday. Owen Larson has today’s News in :90.
After two days of searching, the FBI reportedly has “zero leads” on catching the gunman who “fatally shot five neighbors” Friday night in Texas. General Mills has issued a “nationwide recall of its Gold Medal flour after discovering salmonella during a sampling of a 5-pound bag.”
St. Thomas named its 16th president and South Campus is being reimagined. A fatal car crash occurred on Cretin Avenue and a former St. Thomas student was charged with criminal sexual conduct. Hosts Macy Berendsen and Sam Larson cover these stories and more on Top Stories. TommieMedia’s stories: St. Thomas names its 16th president: St. …
The Minneapolis NAACP sued the city of Minneapolis Wednesday over allegations that police officers used phony social media accounts to spy on activists without a legitimate public safety purpose. Ya Ya the giant panda landed Thursday in Shanghai after departing from the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee, where she spent the past 20 years on loan. U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday. Meanwhile, electronic cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a “long and meaningful” phone conversation. The Minnesota House is debating a “red flag law” to allow the temporary confiscation of guns from people judged to be an immediate threat to themselves or others. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the case of a 94-year-old woman who lost her one-bedroom condo in minneapolis over 2,300 dollars in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties.
President Joe Biden announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, jury selection is set to begin in a trail over E. Jean Carroll’s claim that she was raped by former President Donald Trump and the National Weather Service has maintained a flood warning for the Mississippi River. Owen Larson has today’s News in :90.
Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who killed Duante Wright was released from prison. Jury selection began Monday in the federal death penalty trial of a truck driver accused of shooting to death 11 Jewish worshippers in 2018. Gunfire at a huge prom after-party at a home in Texas injured nine teenagers.
Brenda Cabral sits down with professor Heather Bouwman to discuss her upcoming youth novel and career as an author.
SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight Thursday but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Strong storms with tornadoes and hail killed at least two people in the central U.S., injuring others, destroying homes and leaving thousands without power. The Republican-led House passed a bill Thursday that would bar federally supported schools and colleges from allowing transgender athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth was male to compete on girls or women’s sports teams.
Federal investigators say BNSF railroad is analyzing a section of fractured rail after last month’s fiery derailment. Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion voting systems nearly $800 million in a settlement over election claims. India is on track to become the world’s most populous nation.
Police in New York have arrested two men for allegedly setting up a secret police station for a Chinese provincial police agency. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order containing more than 50 directives to increase access to child care and improve the work life of caregivers. Minnesota House Democrats rolled out their main tax bill of the session Monday, proposing nearly $3 billion in breaks for the largest tax cut in state history.
Alabama law enforcement officers Sunday were imploring people to come forward with information about a shooting. The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine company’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News put off the opening of the trial Monday. One sheriff’s deputy died on his 44th birthday and two other law enforcement officers were injured after a shootout in west-central Minnesota.
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Sky Anderson, visual media and game design professor and TommieMedia advisor, joins Errol Mickelson to discuss the new game design minor and disability’s relationship with video games.
South Florida kept a wary eye on a forecast that called for more rain as it cleaned up Thursday from nearly a foot (30 centimeters) that fell in a matter of hours, causing widespread flooding, closing the Fort Lauderdale airport, and turning thoroughfares into rivers. Russia might be willing to discuss a potential prisoner swap with the U.S. involving jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich after his trial on espionage charges, a top Russian diplomat said Thursday. Minnesota’s Kyle Farmer was hit in the face by a 92 mph fastball on Wednesday, a frightening mistake by Chicago White Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito that sent the Twins shortstop for oral surgery to realign his four bottom teeth and suture together lacerations on his lower lip.
