An Evening of Campus Chaos: St. Thomas disconnects power outage, athletic center flooding

The Anderson Athletic and Recreation Complex flooded from a sprinkler head hit by a softball and parts of St. Thomas’ North Campus lost power for 3.5 hours, disrupting campus life Monday evening. While both incidents occurred within an hour of each other, they were unrelated; despite an incorrect campus-wide alert stating that the loss of power was caused by the tripped sprinkler head.

News in :90 – Oct. 21, 2019

A tornado struck the Dallas area last night, the nation’s three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker reached a $260 million settlement with two Ohio counties over the opioid crisis, and the Minnesota Department of Corrections almost doubled the overtime it paid prison staff in the past year because of a chronic staff shortage and concern for employee safety. Chief Story Editor Althea Larson has today’s News in :90.