“I don’t think the mayor knew what he was asking for,” Walz said at a briefing on Tuesday. “I think the mayor said, ‘I request the National Guard, whew, this is great. We’re going to have massively trained troops.’ No. You’re going to have 19-year-olds who are cooks.” “I asked, what do you want out of the Guard? It’s not like pulling a can out. What units do you want?...
The Trinidad & Tobago international tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during a 2-1 away win against his former club Orlando City on Saturday. Molino previously tore the ACL in his right knee in May 2015 while playing for Orlando in a friendly against Brazilian side Ponte Preta. He returned to record 11 goals and eight assists for Orlando in 2016, finishing as a finalist for MLS Comeback Player of the Year honors....
The $2.9 billion Line 3 Replacement Project aspires to replace more than 350 miles of 34-inch pipe with new 36-inch pipe in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin. The pipeline replacement project will run through more than 300 miles in Minnesota alone. It is the largest project of its kind that Enbridge Inc., a Canadian energy company, has ever taken on, according to the project description on the company’s website....
“We’re very sad today to report the death of a 9-month-old who tested positive for COVID-19,” Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Commissioner Jan Malcom said during a news briefing. “Based on what we know at this point, the death appears to be an isolated incident related to this infant’s very specific situation.” “A death involving such a young person is tragic and certainly unusual,” she continued. “As we understand it, this is one of the youngest deaths reported in the country to date....
The latest figures, published by Minnesota’s Department of Health, come amid escalating demonstrations, in local cities and across the country, to protest the death of George Floyd. He died in Minneapolis on Monday after former police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes. Speaking about the rallies’ potential effects on Minnesota’s virus outbreak during a news conference on Thursday, Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm acknowledged the motives behind civilian protests but warned they could contribute to further transmission....
WJCL reported that officers with the Kingsland Police Department used spike strips to stop the car after a chase late Friday night. The driver was a 12-year-old and the three passengers were no older than 15 years old. All of them were from Duval County, Florida. According to a post published to the Kingsland Police Department’s Facebook page, an officer noticed the car speeding at 96 mph while conducting traffic enforcement....
According to a report from WWSB-TV, diver Shawn Rauch made the impressive discovery while combing the coast of Lido Beach in Sarasota, Florida, with his underwater metal detector. “I just do it for fun,” he told the outlet. While diving in late May, Rauch found a high school class ring. “Went out in search of a wedding ring in 8ft of water, and found my first ever class ring instead!...
Ashes was a 1-year-old indoor cat when she went missing from her Chesterville, Maine, home in August 2015. Owner Denise Cilley at first assumed that the Longwood, Florida, veterinarian who contacted her about a missing cat on January 22 had called the wrong phone number, according to an interview published Thursday by Patch. Cilley was shocked when the vet accurately described the recovered cat as a spayed gray tabby and informed her that the identification had been made by scanning a microchip implanted by the animal shelter that Ashes had been adopted from as a kitten....
Like most of you, I would have watched that game on television. I have covered 32 NCAA Tournaments, starting in 1988, but I have watched the first round on TV almost as often as I have been in the arena. There are varying reasons why I so often have been away from the arena on opening day: travel costs when I was in the newspaper business, joining the old Sporting News Radio crew from 2001-08 to do the all-encompassing programs we called “Tournament Central” and, last year, using the occasion to visit Sporting News headquarters in Charlotte to spend some time around co-workers I rarely see....
Kevin “Bear” Henry, who is a two-spirit Indigenous person who uses gender-neutral pronouns, was last in contact with their family on November 27, 2021 and became lost in the wilderness of British Columbia while attempting to reach camps where people are protesting old-growth logging. The 37-year-old Henry was driving their camper van on Vancouver Island on the way to the camps in Fairy Creek but as a result of darkness and rain they believed they had gone too far and tried to back the vehicle up....
Jalajhia Finklea was last seen on October 20, the day before she turned 18, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Cape Cod Times reported that the teenager, who is a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, was five months pregnant. She underwent a medical procedure in Boston the day she went missing, the newspaper reported, and had been due to return to the city for follow-up appointment the next day....
Ten of the 12 children who were in intensive care units at Mississippi hospitals Tuesday morning for treatment of COVID-19 were on ventilators, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH). Thomas Dobbs, the MSDH’s state health officer, warned about the gravity of the COVID-19 Delta Variant surge within Mississippi in a tweet that acknowledged several children were on life support. “Delta Surge - be careful,” Dobbs’ tweet said....
The Tigers have dropped three straight and just lost QB Maty Mauk for the season to suspension — although that may not be a bad thing, given his struggles this season. Line: Mississippi State -8, Total: 43 Line movement: The Wynn opened MSU -7.5 and has bounced between that number and -8. Most Las Vegas shops, in fact, have been dealing those lines throughout the week. The Atlantis opened the total at 39, but jumped all the way to 43....
Odom, who played linebacker at Mizzou in the late 1990s, spent the last three seasons as the defensive coordinator at Memphis and has accepted the same position at his alma mater, the school announced. Odom replaces Mizzou’s former defensive coordinator Dave Steckel, who became head coach at FCS Missouri State on Dec. 14. MORE: Reason to watch every bowl game | Bowl schedule | SN All-Americans “We’re really excited to have Barry and his family back at Mizzou,” Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said....
Roeber’s letter of resignation, submitted Tuesday, said that he and his fiancée will relocate out-of-state to be closer to their extended families. The letter doesn’t reference his children’s accusations. Friday will be his last day in office. Roeber’s adult children spoke publicly of the alleged abuse to the Kansas City Star in September 2020. The abuse allegedly occurred in the early 1990s, during the children’s scheduled visits with their father....
“We are still learning what’s taken place,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican wrote. “Grateful to all the [U.S. Capitol Police] and first responders who are on the scene.” U.S. Capitol Police acting chief Yogananda Pittman told reporters that someone rammed a vehicle into two officers and a security barricade on the north side of the Capitol. She said one of the officers has since died of his injuries but didn’t name the officer....
The ad, currently running in McConnell’s home state, features a group of coal miners living with black lung disease. Pike County miner Jimmy Moore goes on to describe a 10-hour bus ride the 120-person group took last month to appeal to the senator for a restoration of their disability benefits. The objective of the meeting was to request that lawmakers collect additional taxes from coal companies to offset the miners’ medical costs....
The Kentucky Republican’s re-election bid brought in a “record-breaking” $7.45 million in the first three months of this year and has the “most-ever cash on hand for any campaign” in the state’s history, with $14.85 million, the campaign said Tuesday. “Kentuckians know that at a time of great consequence, there is no substitute for the proven leadership of Mitch McConnell,” campaign manager Kevin Golden said in a statement. The coronavirus pandemic, whose biggest impact during the quarter came in its last two weeks, appears to have had little deterrence on McConnell’s fundraising ability....
Romney has long been a staunch adversary of the former president and voted to convict him in both Senate impeachment trials. This put him firmly in Trump’s firing line in a clash emblematic of the split in the GOP. Romney has stood by his decisions, saying on Tuesday that voting according to his conscience and letting “the consequences be what they” helped him to “sleep at night.” Despite continuing to criticize the former president, the senator has conceded that Trump still has enormous support in the GOP....
