| Good afternoon! You may want to get out the snow-shoveling gear. Our team at Updraft says we could see two to three days of snow with a few snow systems hitting Minnesota, from the Twin Cities up to Duluth and the North Shore by Sunday. | Forecast | NewsCut |
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| | | Gun violence anger drives Minneapolis student walkout | | A couple hundred students walked out of school in Minneapolis Wednesday to call for stricter gun control. The students gathered just after midday in Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in south Minneapolis. Their rally happened on the same day as a demonstration in Washington, D.C. by students from the Parkland, Florida, high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week. | |
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| Orono schools locked down over gun threat; no intruder | | Schools in the Orono school district were locked down at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday on the advice of police. Police said two threats were received through social media, including a "direct threat of gun violence at the Orono Schools." All students are safe and a dismissal plan was set up by school officials. After school and evening activities have been canceled. | |
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| Jessie Diggins wins cross-country gold | | Jessie Diggins, an Afton native, and Kikkan Randall became the first Americans to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport on Wednesday. The U.S. had never won a medal of any kind in women's cross-country skiing prior to the race | Lindsey Vonn takes home bronze in downhill sking | | |
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| Lawmakers pause session for anti-harassment training | | Minnesota House members were ready to file into a room Wednesday for a private, daylong training session designed to ensure they are all aware of expectations about implicit bias, discrimination and sexual harassment. Attendance was mandatory. | |
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