William Bornhoft at Patch is reporting a retired crematorium manager, Timothy Flanigan, 67, now of Texas, has pled guilty to one count of theft by swindle in connection with the illegal sale of precious metals recovered after incinerating bodies at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.
Paul Walsh at the Star Tribune is following a developing story: Anoka County sheriff’s deputies and Ramsey police officers were sent to Rum River Central Park shortly before 10 a.m. to conduct a welfare check and found a woman, a teenage girl and a young boy fatally shot in an SUV.
Regina Medina at MPR News writes about the new cannabis curriculum being offered by St. Cloud State University, including classes about health, medicine, business, and how marijuana laws have been used to discriminate against specific populations.
Kyle Stokes at Axios has background on what happened when car services Uber and Lyft left Austin, Texas, in 2016.
Tommy Wiita at Bring Me the News reports a 24-year-old man was found dead in a south Minneapolis yard after gunfire Monday near the intersection of Portland Avenue and E. 29th Street just before 4 p.m.
Tim Harlow at the Star Tribune reports Metro Transit will switch from running three-car trains to two on its Blue and Green lines starting Saturday. By running shorter trains, the agency expects to save $500,000 on parts and labor and 1 million miles a year.
Richard Eberwein at Heartland Signal reports Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde says people in nursing homes shouldn’t vote: “Well, if you’re in a nursing home, you only have five, six-month life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote…”
