COVID In Minnesota: U Of M Unveils Wastewater Dashboard, Positivity Rate Drops To 14.3%
The state's average positivity rate continues its steady decline, dropping to 14.3% as of last week after reaching a peak of nearly 24% last month.
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The state's average positivity rate continues its steady decline, dropping to 14.3% as of last week after reaching a peak of nearly 24% last month.
Two people are in custody after a seven-hour long standoff in western Wisconsin.
An investigation is underway into a fatal accident at a 3M plant in western Minnesota.
State patrol has yet to identify the man. No other vehicles were involved in the crash.
The horses managed to escape a fence and fell into 5 feet of frigid water, officials said.
James Stanback was killed late July last year when he was pinned under a forklift. A pallet of lumber fell on the forklift he was operating, officials reported.
Police said two people are listed in critical condition, but expected to survive. There was no word on the severity of the third person's injuries.
Throughout Buffalo on Wednesday, people will find a number of events to honor Lindsay Overbay, the woman who was killed, and the four others that were hurt.
"We've had 12 Alberta clippers since the end of December ... and then behind the clipper we get the cold air. So every time that happens, the warmth, then the cold," assistant state climatologist Pete Boulay said.
A source from the St. Paul Police Department tells WCCO that they have arrested a homicide suspect from the case that ultimately led to the death of Amir Locke last week inside a downtown Minneapolis apartment. The charging documents against the suspect indicate that he was Locke's cousin.
Minnesotans are enjoying a surge of warm air.
Crystal Hill-Hover and her business partners opened the Twin Cities Wellness Center and Recovery Gym in January.
Activists and Locke's family expressed anger at his death, saying it appeared police had startled him awake right before shooting him, and also questioned police statements that called Locke a "suspect" and said he had pointed his gun at officers.
The state of Minnesota has agreed to pay $825,000 and change several policies to settle a lawsuit brought by journalists who said they were hurt or harassed while covering protests over the police killings of George Floyd and Daunte Wright.
Students in the Twin Cities walked out of class Tuesday in protest of the police killing of Amir Locke.
