The Minneapolis NAACP sued the city of Minneapolis Wednesday over allegations that police officers used phony social media accounts to spy on activists without a legitimate public safety purpose. Ya Ya the giant panda landed Thursday in Shanghai after departing from the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee, where she spent the past 20 years on loan. U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday. Meanwhile, electronic cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults.
News in :90 – Oct. 26, 2022
The University of St. Thomas’ St. Paul campus was unintentionally included in a shelter-in-place alert Tuesday morning. The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine. A man who was intoxicated when he drove his SUV into a crowd of protesters in Minneapolis last year, has pleaded guilty to murder and assault just as his trial was set to begin. Mackenna Meyers has today’s News in :90.
News in :90 – May 16, 2019
A firefighter responding to a medical emergency was killed in a shooting at a Wisconsin bus station, Missouri’s Republican-led senate has now passed a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy, and a building that was being refurbished collapsed Thursday in downtown Shanghai. Ad/PR Representative Kyla Krohn has today’s News in :90.