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Month: August 2025

Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BBO–TWINS-TIGERS DESCRIPTION: DETROIT — Minnesota opens a three-game series against the AL Central-leading Detroit Tigers at Comerica

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BBO–TWINS-TIGERS DESCRIPTION: DETROIT — Minnesota opens a three-game series against the AL Central-leading Detroit Tigers at Comerica

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Senate confirms anti-DEI stalwart Andrea Lucas to second term at top workplace civil rights agency

By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Senate confirmed Andrea Lucas to another term as commissioner of the country’s workplace civil rights agency, demonstrating firm Republican support for her efforts to root out diversity programs, roll back protections for transgender workers and prioritize religious rights in the workplace. Democratic lawmakers and

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Visitors stand in front of the original Star-Spangled Banner at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington

Smithsonian temporarily removes reference to Trump’s impeachments from presidency exhibit

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History last month temporarily removed a board that referenced President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit on the American presidency. In a statement to CNN on Thursday, the Smithsonian Institution said the decision, which was first reported by The Washington Post, was

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Lee was back in St. Paul for the statue's unveiling in 2023 and it has sat at Lake Phalen ever since — until now.

Statue of Olympic gymnast Suni Lee stolen

WCCO By WCCO Staff Click here for updates on this story     ST. PAUL, Minnesota (WCCO) — Police in St. Paul say someone stole a brass statue of Olympic champion Suni Lee. The bust wasn’t the only thing taken — the thieves also took the rock that had the superstar gymnast’s nameplate. Lee was back in

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An Arkansas Park Ranger patrols the south entrance of Devil's Den State Park Monday

Mother killed in Arkansas stabbings went back to help husband after getting her children to safety, police say

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Cristen Brink witnessed the unthinkable. Then she did the unimaginable. While on a family hike at Devil’s Den State Park on Saturday, Cristen’s husband Clinton was ambushed and stabbed by an attacker, according to Arkansas State Police. First, investigators say, she ran away with their young daughters to get

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