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Jill Biden to visit Duluth + MN prison newspaper

June 12, 2024

🌩️There will be scattered storms this evening and during the night throughout Minnesota. Thursday will have some rain in the morning as well. Get the latest on Updraft.

First lady Jill Biden to visit Duluth as Biden campaign launches outreach to older voters

First lady Jill Biden will visit Duluth on Thursday, as she kicks off her husband’s outreach to older voters. The effort will blend rallies and phone banks with social events like bingo nights and pickleball games.

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This prison newspaper in Minnesota has been publishing for more than a century

A newspaper in a Minnesota prison began publishing more than a century ago. The paper covers prison life and gives its writers purpose. It’s one of around two dozen similar publications nationwide.

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🏒 Will PWHL Minnesota controversies, drama overshadow fledging league’s future?

In the span of two weeks, Minnesota’s Professional Women’s Hockey League team won the inaugural Walter Cup championship, dismissed its general manager and drafted seven new players — one of whom is already upsetting fans because she supports apparent transphobic content online.

🚨FBI raids Burnsville home of a second Feeding Our Future defendant

Federal agents Wednesday raided the home of a second Feeding Our Future defendant amid an investigation into the attempted bribery of a juror. Mukhtar Shariff was one of five defendants convicted Friday of stealing $47 million from taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs.

💜 Beauty and controversy: It’s lupine season again across northern Minnesota

In Duluth, up the North Shore, across the region — you’ll find those familiar purple, blue, pink and white flowers climbing toward the sky along roadsides and trails.

⚖️Man serving life sentence for 1998 murder awaits next steps after call for exoneration

In a couple of weeks, Brian K. Pippitt will find out whether he’ll be released from prison. He is currently serving a life sentence for the 1998 murder of a McGregor shopkeeper. The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office says he was wrongly convicted.

🚰DNR: Elko New Market can pump more groundwater to supply bottled water plant

A California-based company, Niagara Bottling, plans to build a facility to produce bottled beverages in the Scott County city south of the Twin Cities metro.

🚢Dive teams find 13-foot-long crack in hull of freighter that reported taking on water on Lake Superior

The U.S. Coast Guard says dive teams found a 13-foot-long crack in the hull of a Great Lakes freighter last weekend. But officials said it appears the damage was more likely due to metal fatigue or a structural failure, and likely not from a collision with a submerged object as the ship’s crew initially reported.

☕‘Untapped market’: Rapidly growing Yemeni coffee chains set sights on Twin Cities

From Sahan Jounral: The sudden boom in Yemeni coffee shops in the U.S. is due to two factors: Yemen’s storied coffee culture, and the need for public spaces for young Muslims, who often have difficulty finding places to socialize in the evening that don’t serve alcohol.

– Madelyn Bonkoski, MPR News

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