What’s happening in Minnesota Today
Happy Wednesday Minnesota!
Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕
☎️ MPR News host Angela Davis will be talking about the debate on Wednesday at 9 a.m. She wants you to call in with your thoughts: 651-227-6000 or 800-242-2828. | |
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🔥 The heat is back. Wednesday will be warm and windy with critical fire weather conditions again.
☀️ Highs will be near 80 in southern Minnesota with cooler readings north. These readings are nearly 15 degrees above normal once again.
Get the latest weather news on Updraft. | |
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| | In Mille Lacs, divers go deep to uncover lake’s trash problem |
On Mille Lacs, Minnesota’s second-largest inland lake and a premier fishing destination, concern has been growing over garbage left behind by ice anglers and other lake users. Divers from a nonprofit group based in Lake Tahoe, Nev., recently spent two weeks taking a closer look at Mille Lacs’ submerged litter to better understand where it’s coming from, and how to prevent it. | |
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🔊 From Walz’s hometown to an American Legion, Minnesotans react to governor in VP debate. Supporters of the Republican and Democratic presidential tickets gathered Tuesday evening for debate watch parties around Minnesota for the likely only debate between Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
📺 Walz’s account of son’s brush with gun violence offers poignant moment in VP debate. A debate-stage disclosure about the gun violence personally affecting the son of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz offered a moment of compassion from Republican nominee JD Vance on Tuesday night.
🤝🏽 U.S. Fish and Wildlife signs Tamarac co-stewardship agreement with White Earth. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the White Earth Nation have signed a co-stewardship agreement for the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Minnesota.
🏀 Lynx top Sun 77-70 in Game 2 to even WNBA semifinals behind Collier’s supporting cast. Connecticut will host Game 3 on Friday and Game 4 on Sunday. Then Game 5, if necessary, would be in Minnesota on Oct. 8.
🚧 Habitat for Humanity volunteers continue Carter’s legacy on 100th birthday. For 40 years, the project has brought together volunteers, celebrities and elected officials to build homes and highlight the need for affordable housing.
⚽ Minnesota United specialty license plate now available. The Loons unveiled the new plate Tuesday, featuring the team’s logo on a black background. The lettering is white and sky blue.
🔎 In VP debate, Walz acknowledges he wasn’t in China during Tiananmen uprising. APM Reports, the investigations and documentaries unit of MPR News, first reported that Walz’s claim during a 2014 congressional hearing on the 25th anniversary of the massacre didn’t square up with media accounts in 1989.
🏛️ Eagan woman latest to plead guilty in federal Feeding Our Future fraud case. Prosecutors say between June 2020 through 2022 Kaswar Jama of Eagan, submitted at least $4.5 million in fraudulent claims for Federal Child Nutrition Program funds. They say Jama spent some of that money on real estate and new cars.
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