Nurses, hospital staff and supporters gathered outside of Children’s Minnesota-St. Paul and United hospitals Tuesday as part of the second day of a three-day nurses strike pressing for higher wages, resolving understaffing and more. Cam Kauffman and Derek Badger have the story.
St. Thomas’ O’Shaughnessy-Frey library was left mostly unscathed after a storm dropped almost two inches of rain during a tornado warning in Minneapolis and St. Paul, according to the National Weather Service.
OPEC and allied oil-producing countries decided to gradually increase the flows they send to the world. Kyiv native, professor Paul Gavrilyuk, is dedicating his time to raising over $300,000 for Rebuild Ukraine. Gillian farinella had today’s News in :90.
Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally Friday at a Moscow stadium, Public defenders are poised to go on strike as early as Tuesday across Minnesota, where unionized attorneys say they’ve been pushed to the brink by routinely high caseloads that have become unmanageable amid the coronavirus pandemic, and Governor Tim Walz gave an updated plan on what to do with the state’s reasonably big surplus last Thursday.
Minneapolis public school teachers and supporters marched Tuesday from the Minneapolis Nutrition Center to John B. Davis Educational Center on the first day of their strike, the first for Minneapolis teachers since 1970.
President Joe Biden has decided to ban Russian oil imports, teachers in the Minneapolis school district walked off the job on Tuesday in a dispute over wages, and three positive COVID-19 cases were reported by the Center for Well-Being during the week ending on March 4th. Ad/Pr representative Camarae Good has today’s News in :90.
Hundreds of people joined in song and prayer Thursday at the funeral service for Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man who was shot by Minneapolis police as they served a no-knock search warrant.
Law students from three schools, the University of Minnesota, Hamline University and St. Thomas gathered for a demonstration of justice for Amir Locke and all stolen lives at Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis Friday.
The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have stopped requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test at restaurants. As a result, the University Action and Response team released a statement announcing the university would discontinue the steps taken to comply with the city rules.
Authorities arrested Amir Locke’s 17-year-old cousin Tuesday in connection with the homicide investigation that led police to the Minneapolis apartment where a SWAT team officer fatally shot Locke while conducting a search warrant.
International efforts to defuse the standoff over Ukraine intensified, a caravan of about 50 vehicles drove through Minneapolis demanding justice in the death of Amir Locke and the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s rights is expected to resume. KUST Station Director Owen Larson has today’s News in :90.
The Minneapolis mayor on Friday imposed a moratorium on no-knock warrants after Amir Locke was killed this week as a SWAT team executed a search warrant.
State agents are investigating Wednesday after a Minneapolis police officer was involved in a shooting downtown.
Two students were shot, one fatally, outside a suburban Minneapolis school on Tuesday, police said.
A patrol sergeant who was backing up other officers after Daunte Wright was pulled over took the stand Friday as prosecutors resumed their case in the manslaughter trial of former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter.
