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Contact tracing has evolved to include the most-pressing COVID-19 cases rather than casting a wider net. But a smartphone app is producing more exposure alerts than ever.
Jury selection ended Friday morning for the trial of the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged in the Daunte Wright killing. Opening statements are set for Dec. 8. Potter is expected to testify during the trial.
State health officials expected to find the new omicron variant in Minnesota with an ability to detect changes in the coronavirus using gene sequencing. And on Thursday, they publicly confirmed the first case in a Minnesota resident. Here’s what we know — and don’t know — about the new variant and its impact on the state’s COVID-19 response.
The St. Paul Public Schools board decided 5-2 to close Galtier, Jackson, John A. Johnson, Parkway and L’Etoile du Nord lower campus schools by June 2022. They also voted to close Barack and Michelle Obama Elementary by the end of the 2022-23 school year. Two of these schools have no reopening plan, while others will close temporarily and reopen with different programming.
Prosecutors, defense attorneys and a Hennepin County judge pushed ahead Thursday on jury selection in the trial of the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged in the Daunte Wright killing. A full jury should be set by the end of Friday.
The newest numbers offer some hope the fall wave has crested. Hospitalizations, however, remain concerning. Minnesota remains “firmly in the grip” of the COVID virus, the state’s health commissioner said Wednesday.
The jury now has nine members out of the 12 jurors and two alternates in the trial of the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged in the Daunte Wright killing. Potter’s attorney has made it clear Potter will testify in her defense.
At a meeting Monday night, the city council discussed one proposal that would pull more than a million dollars from the police budget and use it to fund reform measures. MPR News host Cathy Wurzer talked with Mayor Elliott for an update.
President Joe Biden used a visit to a Minnesota community college Tuesday to highlight how his $1 trillion infrastructure law will create jobs and help train workers — and to make the case for nearly $2 trillion more in spending.
