What’s happening in Minnesota Today
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Hello Friday! Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕ | |
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🌞 Highs in the 80s will be common again from Friday through the weekend.
🌬️ There looks to be at least a brief shot of cooler air for the first two days of October, but temperatures will likely just be slightly below normal and only for a couple days.
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| | Nearly one year after its passage, Minnesota immigrants embracing Driver’s License for All |
The Driver’s License for All law, which went into effect on Oct. 1 of last year, allows people to apply for a driver’s license regardless of their immigration status. Since then, thousands of immigrants and non-native English speakers in Minnesota have applied for driver's licenses.
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🗳️ On ballot herself, Klobuchar devotes campaign time and resources to lifting other DFLers. Klobuchar has an 11-point lead in an MPR News, KARE 11, Star Tribune poll out this week. It’s been hard to tell there’s much of a race at all. She barely acknowledges her Republican challenger, Royce White, and is often out campaigning for other Democrats in Minnesota and beyond.
🚨 Police fatally shoot suspect in ‘cold-blooded’ killing of artist in St. Paul’s Lowertown. St. Paul police say the suspect in an apparently random homicide in the city’s Lowertown neighborhood on Wednesday evening was fatally shot by police early Thursday as officers tried to arrest him southwest of the Twin Cities.
🏆 St. Olaf College wins award for highest student voter turnout in Minnesota — and the U.S. It marks the second victory in a row for the private liberal arts school of about 3,000 students. It also had the highest student voter turnout in 2020, with 87 percent of students voting. In both instances, the campus voted at a rate higher than the state average.
💰 Fraud investigation targets priest's alleged $72,000 in cash requests. In a search warrant affidavit seeking bank account records for Rev. Prince Amala Jesuraja Jebamalia Selvaraj, Winona police officer Dan Metcalf writes that a diocesan attorney provided a spreadsheet detailing $71,950 in gifts and loans given to Selvaraj “for fraudulent reasons.”
🏥 Attorney General asks court to provide oversight in Rainbow Health closure. In his petition to the court, Ellison wrote that Rainbow may not have enough money to both pay employees and honor its other remaining costs and debts. He asked the court to help decide how to prioritize payments.
🍁 September heat and turning leaves: Where to catch fall colors. The Minnesota DNR’s fall colors map suggests leaves are in the beginning stages of turning colorful across northern Minnesota with the start of notable color in the Iron Range and near North Dakota, as well as a sprinkle along the southern border of Minnesota.
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