For the second week in a row, COVID-19 cases on campus have increased from one to nine. With COVID-19 cases rising in many places, governments are facing a hard choice of pushing on with the cheap and easy to use AstraZeneca vaccine or suspending it due to high reports of dangerous blood clots. Minnesota men’s basketball coach, Richard Pitino was fired on monday. Designer Max Osborne has today’s news in :90.
Jury selection continues today for the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and four St. Thomas students have been named semifinalists for the U.S. Fulbright Student Program. Ad/PR Representative Gabi Bibeau has today’s News in :90.
Jury selection for the former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death resumed Friday and St. Thomas graduate Mohamed Malim created Epimonía, a business designed to help support refugees in the United States. Designer Rabia Malik has today’s News in :90.
A judge on Thursday granted prosecutors’ request to add a third-degree murder charge against Derek Chauvin, heavy snow in northeastern Minnesota left many without power and the International Olympic Committee is offering vaccines to athletes for the Olympic games. Ad/PR Representative Alaina Schoenfelder has today’s News in :90.
Jury selection for the Derek Chauvin trial continues today, the U.S. is buying an additional 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and Pascale Kunda has won the Tommie Award. Ad/PR Representative Jacqueline Strunk has today’s News in :90.
The trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death is going ahead with jury selection after a delay yesterday. St. Thomas is investigating an ethnic slur found on a chalkboard of a classroom building, found on monday. St. Thomas’ Center for Well-Being reported 5 COVID-19 cases on campus last week. Reporter Libby Simpson has today’s News in :90.
Jury selection for Derek Chauvin’s trial in Minneapolis has been paused for at least a day and DFL party Rep. Ryan Winkler presented the adult-use cannabis bill to the Minnesota House of Representatives. Ad/PR Representative Paige Peplinski has today’s News in :90.
Minneapolis and Hennepin County officials will spend at least $1 million to put up barricades before Derek Chauvin’s trial, and St. Thomas students await the Travel Risk Advisory Committee’s decision on several study abroad programs. Reporter Leila Weah has today’s News in :90.
Democrats approved an act late Wednesday to overhaul policing nationwide, Minnesota health officials celebrated the arrival of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and St. Thomas officials hope to turn the university into a COVID-19 vaccination site. Reporter Elijah Todd-Walden has today’s News in :90.
The MIAC said fall and spring sports will compete this semester, President Biden said that all adults will have access to the COVID-19 vaccine by May and a journalist in Myanmar was charged with violating a public order law. Ad/PR representative Isabel Crosby has today’s News in :90.
St. Thomas first-year student Erika Cruz died as a result of injuries in a car crash Tuesday night and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said Thursday that every Minnesotan should be able to get a vaccine by this summer. Columnist Macy Berendsen has today’s News in :90.
Minnesota public health officials are asking families to get tested for COVID-19 every two weeks, President Biden nominated three postal experts to the governing board of the U.S. Postal Service and St. Thomas recognizes the Black leaders who have enhanced the campus community. Columnist Mae Macfarlane has today’s News in :90.
Golfer Tiger Woods recovers from a car accident, Minnesota utilities customers will face increased February heating bills and demolition of St. Thomas’ Loras Hall is underway. Photographer Casey Eakins has today’s News in :90.
The Supreme Court cleared a New York prosecutor to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns Monday and St. Thomas graduate Hannah Studee used a Tommie network to establish a fitness training business. Reporter Lauren Price has today’s News in :90.
The NASA rover Perseverance landed on Mars Thursday and Tommies Closet, a program that aims to recycle unwanted clothes, is offering mini workshops for students and faculty on how to mend torn clothes. Reporter Sam Larson has today’s News in :90.
