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All Things Considered

Tom Crann
Tom Crann
Evan Frost | MPR News

All Things Considered, with Tom Crann in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington, is your comprehensive source for afternoon news and information. Listen from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. every weekday.

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Daunte Wright killing: Ex-cop Potter sentenced to 2 years

Daunte Wright killing: Ex-cop Potter sentenced to 2 years

“This is a cop who made a tragic mistake,” Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu said Friday as she sentenced Kimberly Potter. Wright’s father said Potter got a “slap on the wrist, and we still wait around every night crying, waiting for our son to come home.”
by Nina Moini

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The extreme cold that defines Minnesota winters is getting less extreme

The extreme cold that defines Minnesota winters is getting less extreme

The shift in cold weather trends has affected everything from when you can begin ice fishing each year, to what you can plant in your yard, to the management of invasive pests.
by Paul Huttner and Mark Seeley

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Delayed care during pandemic takes huge emotional toll

Delayed care during pandemic takes huge emotional toll

Throughout the pandemic, hospitals pulled back on elective procedures periodically because of a rush of COVID-19 patients and staff shortages. Those postponed treatments will take months to reschedule after the latest COVID wave subsides, leaving patients to cope with the emotional and physical toll of delaying their care.
by Brian Bakst and Catharine Richert

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Art Hounds celebrate Black history in image, story and song

Art Hounds celebrate Black history in image, story and song

St. Joan of Arc church marks 75 years of south Minneapolis life with a Black History Month concert called “Oh Let Us Build This Place.” A. Drew Hammond’s careful collages respond to historical and current events. The Cedar Commissions debuts new works of wide-ranging variety.
by Emily Bright

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Sharpton: Amir Locke 'not guilty of anything but being young and Black in America'

Sharpton: Amir Locke 'not guilty of anything but being young and Black in America'

Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton and other speakers at Amir Locke’s service Thursday demanded an end to no-knock warrants as they eulogized the 22-year-old Black man fatally shot by Minneapolis police while they served a search warrant.
by MPR News Staff

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Basketball coach Tamara Moore blazes new path at Iron Range college

Two years ago, the former Minneapolis North basketball star and WNBA player was hired to coach the men's basketball team at Mesabi Range College — the only woman coaching a men's college program in the entire country at the time. Her first season was canceled because of COVID. Now she’s closing in on the end of her first season on the hardwood.
by Dan Kraker

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Floyd killing: Ex-cop Kueng says he trusted Chauvin as senior officer on scene

Floyd killing: Ex-cop Kueng says he trusted Chauvin as senior officer on scene

Former Minneapolis officer J. Alexander Kueng took the stand Wednesday, making his first remarks since Floyd’s killing in police custody. Earlier, prosecutors pressed ex-officer Tou Thao on his responsibility to help Floyd at the scene.
by Jon Collins

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Amid rush to Minn. lakes, calls to require boater education get louder

Amid rush to Minn. lakes, calls to require boater education get louder

A sharp interest in boating during the COVID-19 pandemic and growing concern over safety and environmental impacts have led to calls for a required education course for adults to operate a boat in Minnesota.
by Kirsti Marohn

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