Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day.
WEATHER
🌡️ Highs Friday will be in the low 90s for much of southern Minnesota with afternoon heat indices near 100 degrees. A heat advisory is in effect for parts of central and southern Minnesota.
⛈️ The next round of storms will develop Friday evening in the Dakotas and track east overnight Friday into Saturday. These storms could be severe with damaging wind gusts and large hail with localized heavy rainfall.
Antonia Aguilar Maldonado’s attorneys say she is being held at the Kandiyohi County Jail in Willmar, despite having no criminal record, an active asylum case, and a bond approved by an immigration judge. she is the mother of two U.S. citizen children, including a 22-month-old nursing toddler.
After hundreds of artists were rejected from Minnesota's prestigious State Fair Fine Arts Competition, two Twin Cities galleries are hosting popular "reject shows" featuring the overlooked works, celebrating artistic resilience and sparking public interest and conversation.
Hurricane-force winds felled millions of trees in Beltrami County in a late-June storm. The cleanup efforts continue, but officials lament the lack of help from the federal government.
NEWS ROUNDUP
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Minnesota food shelves are looking more like grocery stores, but federal cuts threaten their future. St. Peter's food shelf renovated its space to provide an experience more like that of a supermarket. But federal budget cuts may significantly reduce the food aid this and similar hunger relief organizations provide.
🕒 Incarcerated people wait for tablets in Minnesota prisons as state seeks vendor. People incarcerated in Minnesota prisons and their families say
the state is moving too slowly in creating a new system to allow tablet computers used to message with family, access educational content and play media like music.
🏊♂️ Duluth man thrown from boat in Lake Superior shares details of his swim to safety.
💖 You think 'Love is Blind' Minneapolis is over? Here are 8 updates on the cast. It’s been five months since Netflix concluded “Love is Blind” season eight, which featured singles from the Twin Cities. While some may have been ready to move on, the reality show lives on through its cast — real people who continue to exist.
📖 Children’s literature series explores, celebrates Native American lives. The Native American Lives Series is a
set of biographies about Native people, written by Native authors. The Minnesota Humanities Center and Lerner Publishing Group have released four books out of the planned 12.
🎧 As youth sports grow more intense, some coaches and officials struggle with parent behavior. MPR News guest host Catharine Richert talks with two youth sports coaches about how they set expectations for parents, players, and fellow coaches — and what it takes to cool down when behavior off the field gets too heated.
🎧 Months after shooting in south Minneaoplis, community shows up for National Night Out
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