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Annunciation one-year anniversary marked with Day of Hope, Pearl Park event
Gov. Tim Walz proclaimed Aug. 27 "Annunciation Day of Hope, Resilience and Love" as Minneapolis held a one-year remembrance and supply-drive at Pearl Park. FOX 9
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NASA taps Minnesota as Midwest aerospace workforce hub
NASA named Minnesota State's Transportation Center of Excellence one of seven national aerospace skilled technical workforce State Hubs, making it the only hub in the Midwest. FOX 9
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Prior Lake daycare teacher charged with abusing 6 children
A Prior Lake daycare teacher, Rachel Lowe, 36 of New Prague, is charged with six counts of malicious punishment of a child after surveillance video allegedly showed her striking six children. FOX 9
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Trump order to split MMR collides with accelerating drop in Minnesota vaccination rates
Donald Trump on Aug. 10 issued an executive order proposing to space out childhood vaccines and separate the measles-mumps-rubella shot, a move that collides with falling Minnesota vaccination rates. FOX 9
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CDC data show Minnesota kindergarten vaccinations falling again
CDC's 2025-26 kindergarten data show Minnesota's MMR vaccination rate fell to 85.7% while the state's exemption rate rose to 6.9%, leaving coverage well below the 95% herd-immunity benchmark. FOX 9
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Northern MN wildfires: firefighter ID'd as Alaskan crew member; Walz orders flags half-staff
A firefighter died after a mid-morning medical emergency while working the Bear Trap Fire near Ely, officials said. FOX 9
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Court upholds MPS layoff protections for teachers of color
A federal appeals court ruled Minneapolis Public Schools may keep a union-contract clause that gives layoff protection to teachers of color. Minnesota Reformer
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State awards $2.8M to support Minnesota student-parents
The Minnesota Office of Higher Education awarded $2.8 million in Student-Parent Support Initiative grants for fiscal year 2027 to 24 colleges and community organizations across the state. FOX 9
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Report: Soaring MCA opt-outs skew Minnesota test data
A new analysis says student opt-outs from Minnesota's statewide Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments have nearly tripled since 2019, undermining confidence in the test data. FOX 9
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Trump DOE probes MN schools over U of M 'transgender dolls' project
The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation Friday into a University of Minnesota-backed MyGenderDolls project after parents said the dolls were used in Minnesota classrooms without notice or an opt-out. Alphanews
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Twin Cities now 8th costliest U.S. metro to raise a child
SmartAsset ranked the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro the eighth most expensive of 48 large U.S. metropolitan areas to raise a child in 2026. FOX 9
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St. Louis Park teacher charged after dragging 8-year-old
A St. Louis Park teacher, Steven Samuel Burth, was charged Tuesday in Hennepin County with gross misdemeanor malicious punishment of a child after an alleged May 5 dragging of an 8-year-old at Aquila Elementary. FOX 9
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Lawsuit targets U of M gender identity speech rules
Young America's Foundation filed a federal lawsuit challenging the University of Minnesota's gender-identity and pronoun policies, seeking policy changes and $1 in nominal damages and alleging the rules chill speech. FOX 9
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Facebook bans MN public radio exec over AI error
Facebook permanently disabled the account of AMPERS president and CEO Joel Glaser after it flagged two news posts as child sexual exploitation, a move tied to a June 25, 2026 suspension notice in Minnesota. FOX 9
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Minneapolis day care owner pleads guilty in $5.5M fraud
Fahima Egeh Mahamud, the former CEO of Future Leaders Early Learning Center in Minneapolis, pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud and conspiracy for stealing more than $5.4 million. FOX 9
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Workforce Pell Grants start at Hennepin Tech
Hennepin Technical College in Brooklyn Park began offering Workforce Pell Grant-eligible short-term programs on July 1, 2026, making it one of only two Minnesota colleges to do so. FOX 9