A mostly white jury was seated Friday for the trial of a suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in Daunte Wright’s shooting death, and opening statements were scheduled to begin next week.
Jury selection moved forward Thursday in the trial of a suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in Daunte Wright’s shooting death, with the 10th and 11th jurors seated ahead of opening statements next week.
Just a day after the U.S. announced its first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus had been detected in California, health officials announced Thursday it was found in a man who attended an anime convention in New York City in late November.
The jury for the trial of a suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in Daunte Wright’s shooting death began to take shape Wednesday, with nine of the necessary 14 panelists seated, including a woman who said she owns both a gun and a stun gun.
A person in California who had been vaccinated against COVID-19 became the first in the U.S. to have an identified case of the omicron variant, the White House announced Wednesday as scientists continue to study the risks posed by the new virus strain.
A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school, killing three students, including a 16-year-old boy who died in a deputy’s patrol car on the way to a hospital, authorities said.
Three were killed and eight were injured in a shooting at a Michigan high school Tuesday, Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter will testify at her trial, and St. Thomas celebrated Native American Heritage Month. Camarae Good has today’s News in :90.
November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate Native American people, culture and history and to cultivate a sense of belonging for a group that has often been denied inclusion in the United States.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot Daunte Wright will testify at her trial, her attorney said Tuesday as jury selection began with potential panelists being questioned closely about their attitudes on policing, protests and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Jury selection in the trial of Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter began Tuesday, the World Health Organization warned Monday that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus could lead to surges, and 15 positive cases of COVID-19 were reported to the Center for Well-Being. Lane Kennedy has today’s News in :90.
Fifteen positive COVID-19 cases were reported to the Center for Well-Being during the week of Nov. 22.
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization warned Monday that the global risk from the omicron variant is “very high” based on early evidence, saying the mutated coronavirus could lead to surges with “severe consequences.”
President Joe Biden will urge Americans to get vaccinated and receive a booster shot as he seeks to quell concerns over the new COVID-19 varient omicron, police in a Minneapolis suburb fatally shot an armed carjacking suspect after the man confronted them in a liquor store and a jury was selected to determine whether Ghislaine Maxwell was Jeffrey Epstein’s puppet or accomplice. Reporter Emily Rudie has today’s News in :90.
Legend has it that in November of 1621, English settlers in Plymouth and the Indigenous Wampanoags celebrated their newfound friendship with a feast: America’s first Thanksgiving. History, however, tells a story of massacre, war and violence between the Native Americans and the English — that story is much harder to feel ‘thankful’ for.
All three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice.
