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How students can get Minnesota’s North Star Promise Scholarship
The scholarship allows students to attend Minnesota universities without required fees or tuition costs.
ST PAUL, Minn. — College is a luxury that many smart and hardworking students may not be able to afford.
With Minnesota’s North Star Promise Scholarship, many qualified students are now able to access quality education without tuition or fees. Metro State University has seen a lot of success with this new program implemented this fall.
The university has awarded $2.1 million in funding to more than 1,000 students who otherwise would not have been able to afford college this year. The scholarship covers the balance of a student’s tuition and required fees after other scholarships, grands and waivers have been applied.
This scholarship is possible at all Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, all University of Minnesota campuses and all Tribal Colleges.
Metro State University leaders are sharing their findings with the public in a free webinar on Nov. 13 at 1 p.m.
As for eligibility, applicants must be a Minnesota resident and have a family Adjusted Gross Income below $80,000. For the full list of requirements and more information on the scholarship, click here.
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis Police Department posted to its X (formerly Twitter) around 1 p.m., saying officers responded to shots fired on the 2900 block of Lyndale Avenue South, but no injuries have been reported.
MPD is on scene after reports of shots fired in the 2900 block of Lyndale Ave S. No injuries reported. MPD is asking everyone to stay away from the area for police operations.
— Minneapolis Police (@MinneapolisPD) October 22, 2024
KARE 11 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.
Ke-Andre Oliver-Butler was last seen around 5 a.m. Tuesday in the area of Forest St. and 4th Ave. E. in St. Paul’s Dayton Bluff neighborhood.
ST PAUL, Minn. — The St. Paul Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding a “non-verbal autistic” teenager, according to a brief news release from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Ke-Andre Oliver-Butler was last seen around 5 a.m. Tuesday in the area of Forest St. and 4th Ave. E. in St. Paul’s Dayton Bluff neighborhood.
Oliver-Butler is 5′ 8″ and weighs 110 lbs. When he went missing, he was wearing a faded jean jacket, blue jeans with gold writing and black shoes.
Anyone with information is asked to call 651-291-1111.
The BCA released no further details.
The candidate first identified himself as George Floyd’s cousin in June 2020, just days after Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer.
RICHMOND, Va. — Editor’s note: The video above first aired on KARE 11 in May 2024.
Relatives of a City Council candidate in Richmond, Virginia, are casting doubt on his claim that he is a cousin of George Floyd, the Black man whose 2020 death in police custody reignited the national Black Lives Matter movement.
Tavares Floyd wants to represent the 6th District in Virginia’s capital city of more than 200,000 people. His campaign website states: “After the death of my cousin, George Floyd, I was fully reinvigorated to bring us all together in a major way.”
Tavares Floyd also identified himself as George Floyd’s cousin in June 2020, just days after Floyd died in Minneapolis when he spoke at a large demonstration in Richmond.
“My cousin perished and he died pleading for his mother, and he died at the hands of police officers,” Floyd told the crowd. “That’s what it means to be a Black man in this country.”
In an article published Tuesday, Tavares Floyd’s sister told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that her brother’s claim is a “big lie.”
“It’s not true,” Ashley Floyd told the newspaper. She said that “when a man with the same last name was murdered, Tavares saw an opportunity.”
“It’s disgusting actually, and distasteful to prey on someone’s pain,” Ashley Floyd added.
Vincent Floyd, Tavares Floyd’s half-brother, told the Times-Dispatch that he was “not aware” of any connection between his family and George Floyd.
In an email to the Times-Dispatch, Tavares Floyd defended his claims that he is related to George Floyd.
“My aunts have a direct connection to the family,” he said. “They are who called me to tell me he had been killed.”
“We attended the family funeral,” he told the newspaper. “I have pictures from the service.”
Tavares Floyd provided photos to the newspaper showing him at a memorial event for George Floyd in Raeford, North Carolina.
“The last name Floyd is uncommon for African Americans,” he told the Times-Dispatch. “Anytime you meet a Floyd, we always get excited because we know we are related … but you wouldn’t know that.”
Flora Taylor, who identified herself as one of Tavares Floyd’s aunts, told the newspaper that she did not know whether the family is related to George Floyd.
But she said if they were, she had never met him. She also said she did not call Tavares Floyd to discuss George Floyd’s death.
Tavares Floyd did not immediately respond to an email to his campaign website from The Associated Press seeking comment.
The Floyd Family Center for Social Equity, a nonprofit started by George Floyd’s family members in North Carolina, did not immediately respond to an email from the AP seeking comment.
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