People in South Florida are donating water, food and household supplies to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian sat over the islands for a day and a half. The relief effort was spearheaded by descendants of some of Miami’s earliest settlers from the Bahamas.

Floridians showed up in crowds tuesday to give cans of food, bottles of water and boxes of diapers to members of two historically black churches who were sorting them before they were to be flown to the devastated islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama. Abaco and Grand Bahama were hit with winds up to 185 miles per hour and torrential rain, tearing apart homes, trapping people in their attics, and killing at least seven people. Government officials said Wednesday that they expect the death toll to rise.

Three people were shot outside the main gate at the Minnesota State Fair Monday following a woman being hit by a car and St. Paul’s 15th homicide this year. According to Steve Linders, a spokesperson for the police department, a 19-year-old woman was hit by a car less than two blocks from the main entrance shortly after 10 p.m. Witnesses told police that there had been a fight or altercation in the area.

A short time later, several shots were heard near the same entrance and police found one man on the ground with a bullet wound. Two other men with bullet wounds later showed up at the hospital. The three men are expected to survive, but the 19-year-old woman was still in critical condition as of Tuesday.

About 90 minutes before the shootings at the state fair, police responded to a shooting about seven miles away from the fairgrounds. a man shot in the stomach was brought to the hospital and died around 9 p.m.

Students will no longer need to rely on their student IDs to enter a dining hall this fall, thanks to new biometric hand scanners called Wave ID.

Dining Services have installed the hand scanners at all residential dining locations on campus. Everybody with a meal plan will be required to enroll in Wave ID, eliminating the requirement to present a student ID at the dining hall entrance.

All first-year students were enrolled into Wave ID as part of the orientation process. Upper-class students, faculty and staff members with meal plans can enroll anytime with a quick visit to the card office on the first floor of Murray-Herrick Campus Center. Dining Services staff members will also be in front of The View entrance this week to enroll people into the system.

Althea Larson can be reached at lars2360@stthomas.edu.