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Woman, 67, struck inside home by stray bullet; one injured in shooting in Uptown in Minneapolis
A 67-year-old woman was struck by a stray bullet fired from outside her home Monday night in the East Phillips neighborhood of south Minneapolis, while another man was hospitalized after a barrage of gunfire on West Lake Street.
Minneapolis police are investigating both incidents and say they are unrelated.
In the first incident, Third Precinct officers responded at 7:15 p.m. to the shooting at a home in the 2500 block of Ogema Place. They found the woman injured with a non life-threatening gunshot wound. She was taken to HCMC, and investigators determined the gunfire came from outside the house and she was not the intended target.
The other shooting occurred just before 10:30 p.m. near the 1300 block of Lake Street in the Uptown neighborhood. A 911 dispatcher reported what “sounded like automatic gunfire.” Officers arrived and found casings outside a Target store and apartment building, along with a vehicle parked nearby.
As officers were arriving, the 18-year-old man was admitted to the emergency room at HCMC with gunshot injuries.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the address where the Lake Street shooting occurred.
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Volunteers keep Christmas alive in shuttered church with a Nativity scene with a live baby and carols in German
When Reeck first joined, he was uncertain whether people would donate to help keep the church standing. But they’ve raised more than $300,000 in the past three decades, which has helped the nonprofit refinish the pews, replace the stained glass windows in their original style, redo the roof, tuckpoint the bricks and install a ramp.
Most people on the nonprofit’s mailing list are connected to the church through relatives, but the connections seem to get looser every year. And some people just yearn for a nostalgic Christmas service, Jenniges said: “Every year, we get people from the outside who say, Oh my gosh — I can’t believe you still do this. You can’t let it be lost.”
Susan Lorenz uses a broom to hang tinsel on a 20-foot tree ahead of the Christmas service at Salem Historical Church in Paynesville. The church closed in 1968 but volunteers organize the holiday service each year. (Jenny Berg)
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The GOP stoked fears of noncitizens voting. Cases in Ohio show how rhetoric and reality diverge
Before the November presidential election, Ohio’s secretary of state and attorney general announced investigations into potential voter fraud that included people suspected of casting ballots even though they were not U.S. citizens.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Authorities in Ohio launched a homicide investigation after the bodies of three women were found Saturday inside a home in Columbus.
Officers were called to a home on the city’s south side just before 4 p.m. Saturday for what a 911 caller described as a medical event. Police found three women who were pronounced dead at the scene, according to police spokesman Sgt. James Fuqua.
He said the killings were considered homicides, but he did not have further details, including what led up to the killings.
”Unfortunately, this is a very complex scene with the amount of victims that we have,” he told reporters Saturday. “It’s going to take a little bit longer to make sure that we’re very careful in going through the scene meticulously so we do not miss any key piece of evidence.”
He said investigators were interviewing witnesses and looking for video evidence.
Fuqua said Saturday that no suspects had been taken into custody.
Columbus police did not immediately have an update on the homicides on Sunday.
