Duluth News Tribune reports the man behind the Jan. 8 shooting at a motel in Cloquet did not know the victims beforehand. “Police believe (Nicholas) Lenius may have been in the midst of a mental health episode that was possibly compounded by being under the influence of methamphetamine.”
In an op-ed for Sahan Journal, St. Paul City Council Member Mitra Jalali and Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai write about why they’re voting “uncommitted” during Tuesday’s primary election. “Voting uncommitted is an action to hold our president accountable—an action that is at the very heart of our democracy.”
Related: The Guardian reports on the effort to encourage Minnesota voters to vote “uncommitted” following Michigan’s primary in which more than 100,000 voters did just that.
Star Tribune reports comedian Richard Lewis will be laid to rest in Roseville. Why? Well, his wife Joyce Lapinsky is a St. Paul native and they wished to be buried together at Temple of Aaron Cemetery.
MPR News reports around 4,000 Twin Cities janitors started a three-day strike Monday. “[The janitors] been in negotiations for months, looking for better pay and retirement benefits.”
Kare11 reports the family of Adam Finseth, one of the first responders fatally shot in Burnsville last month, is writing a book for his children to remember him full of stories submitted by anyone who knew him.
Noticing an uptick in camera crews around Minneapolis? That’s because the new season of Netflix’s ‘Love Is Blind’ is filming, Fox9 reports.
