Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕
WEATHER
🌬️ Cooler air is already settling in for our next round of wintry weather. Highs Tuesday will still be in the low 50s for the Twin Cities and even near 60 along the Minnesota-Iowa border. Northern Minnesota will in the upper 30s to low 40s.
❄️ Blizzard warnings, winter storm watches and winter weather advisories are posted for much of south-central and southeast Minnesota into western Wisconsin for Wednesday.
The Trump administration’s recent tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products leave many in the agricultural and horticultural industries anxious and worried about unfulfilled contracts or trying to figure out how they’re going to take on the financial losses as growing expenses are mounting on their bottom line.
Sovereignty Day was full of opportunities for leaders of the 11 tribal nations in the state to visit with members of the Minnesota House and Senate — an opportunity to share, and an opportunity to sit across the table and learn from one another.
NEWS ROUNDUP
👨⚖️ Feeding Our Future restaurant owner says COVID meal sites were investments, not fraud. The prosecution contends that Salim Said played a major role in the $250 million fraud, and tried to show he profited from the association with the now-defunct Twin Cities nonprofit. Closing arguments could come Tuesday.
👠 Prosecutors say Minnesota man accused of hiding stolen ruby slippers from 'The Wizard of Oz' is dead. A federal judge dismissed charges Monday against a Minnesota man accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers after prosecutors informed the court that he died on Sunday.
🕯️ U.S. airman charged in death of an Indigenous South Dakota woman who had vanished in August. Authorities say a 24-year-old active-duty airman stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base murdered Sahela Sangrait on the military installation near Rapid City. ⚾ Twins’ Royce Lewis will miss start of season after hurting his hamstring. An MRI revealed a moderate sprain after Lewis hurt himself running out a grounder in the Twins’ Grapefruit League game Sunday against the Boston Red Sox.
🎧 Where are the women in history books and federal holidays? A Minnesotan looks for answers. In a new book, a Minnesota law professor argues that their struggle — and others like it — are still obscured by stories that keep men at the center. Jill Hasday is the author of “We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality.”
MPR News and the Minnesota Star Tribune are heading back to Duluth on May 1 for a special Talking Volumes with author Peter Geye and hosted by award-winning MPR News journalist Kerri Miller.
