Minneapolis Breaks Voter Turnout Record
Minneapolis has broken its general election voter turnout record, with just hours left to go before the polls close.
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Minneapolis has broken its general election voter turnout record, with just hours left to go before the polls close.
The murmurs spread quickly among the poll workers late Tuesday morning at a Brooklyn neighborhood station: George Floyd's brother was present.
With so many people to track lately, Minnesota's Department of Health calls it a daunting task. Now, more people are coming forward to say their contact tracing didn't happen as promised.
It was relatively quiet at the polling places across the metro Tuesday. There were some lines when the polls opened, but voters said they cleared relatively quickly.
There were no lines at polling places in Burnsville on Tuesday.
At Phyllis Wheatley Community Center and around other polling sites in North Minneapolis, the longest lines were seen on Tuesday morning, before the polls opened. Once people were allowed inside, lines moved fast.
A polling location in St. Paul was temporarily locked down following a nearby shooting Tuesday afternoon.
With 26,790 votes tallied, Biden was leading the kids' choice vote for president, with about 54% of the vote to Donald Trump's 33.7%.
The shooting happened close to 8th Street and 11th Avenue South, roughly a block away from Bethlehem Baptist Church, which is an active polling place in this year's election, though police did not say there was any connection.
Authorities in a western Wisconsin county say they are overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases and are asking infected individuals to help with their own contact tracing.
Mackenzie Langner left her foster care placement home in Duluth on Saturday afternoon and has not been heard from since, the Stearns County Sheriff's Office says. The 16-year-old left without her cellphone.
Minnesota health officials on Tuesday reported 3,483 new coronavirus cases and 15 more deaths. The last week has seen positive daily totals hovering in the 2,000 to 3,000 range in Minnesota.
Authorities in St. Paul are asking the public's help in finding a missing 83-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease.
As COVID-19 continues to spread in Minnesota with a record number of people hospitalized by the virus, more and more school districts are shifting to distance learning. The latest to make the shift is Dover-Eyota Public Schools in southeastern Minnesota.
