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Walz flies solo in southern Pennsylvania, stopping at volunteer campaign office, orchard and farm
DAWSON, Pa. – Gov. Tim Walz completed his first solo campaign swing Wednesday for the presidential ticket led by Vice President Kamala Harris, stopping for baked goods, ice cream, a chat session with volunteers and a picturesque farm ringed by wildflowers in rural Fayette County.
The governor’s daughter, Hope, accompanied him on the trip that began with a morning flight in the charter Harris-Walz-branded Boeing 737-800 from Minneapolis to Lancaster, Pa., where he stopped at an orchard and a campaign office.
It’s been just over a month since Harris made Walz her surprise choice as a running mate. He’s been rebranded as “Coach Walz” and “America’s dad” — at least for hopeful Democrats. The second-term governor has stepped into a role as a joyful campaigner, running on the record of accomplishment by the Minnesota DFL in the last two legislative sessions.
“There is deliberate effort by some people to make them believe that things are pessimistic,” he told the Democratic campaign volunteers in a Lancaster basement. “Every time I hear Donald Trump give a speech, it’s like the next screenplay for Mad Max or something. They are rooting against America.”
The governor’s stops were well-orchestrated and kept the media at arm’s length but close enough to capture photos and hear chitchat. He did not take media questions even though one reporter called out to him at the Lancaster campaign office, asking what the Harris-Walz administration would do about “lowering prices.”
The governor didn’t respond, and an aide admonished reporters not to interfere with the event.
He addressed more than 20 volunteers by first acknowledging pain because of the school shooting in Georgia. ”So I know it’s a little bit of a heavy heart for all of us, if you think about it, but it’s the work you’re doing,” he said. “Thanks to each and every one of you. We come bearing gifts, apple cider donuts.”
His comments to the campaign workers touched only briefly on policy, saying the Harris-Walz agenda includes reproductive care, good public schools, infrastructure and jobs that pay a livable wage.
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More than 40 years later and thanks to advances in DNA technology, a man has received a 20-year term for a murder in the Uptown area of Minneapolis.
Thanks to advances in DNA technology, a man has received a 20-year prison term for a murder in the Uptown area of Minneapolis more than 40 years ago.
Matthew Russell Brown, 67, of Ingleside, Ill., was sentenced Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing of Robert A. Miller at a home in the 3200 block of S. Girard Avenue in 1984.
With credit for time in jail since his arrest in June 2023, Brown is expected to serve the first 12½ years of his sentence in prison and the balance on supervised release.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said the linchpin in the case was a disposable cup discarded by Brown that contained DNA matching the blood at the scene.
“As we all know, advances in technology have improved DNA analysis,” the Minneapolis Police Department said in a statement released at the time of Brown’s arrest. “Over the past eight years, MPD homicide investigators assigned to the FBI’s Cold Case Task Force have been working diligently with the BCA Forensics Lab to identify DNA found at the scene and narrow down a possible list of suspects. One lead led to another until the MPD homicide investigators were able to identify a suspect in the case.”
At 2:30 a.m. on July 19, 1984, police arrived at Miller’s apartment , where two women in the hall said a man armed with a knife had broken into the building and attacked them.
Officers found Miller dead with “stab wounds to his face, head, chest, back and shoulders,” the complaint read.
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Twin Cities man guilty of murder for fatally stabbing fellow group home resident nearly 2 dozen times
The staffer told a 911 dispatcher that she didn’t hear anything further from the room and said “something isn’t right.”
A police officer arrived and saw a shirtless Adams running from the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses across the street and into the group home. In a Kingdom Hall trash can, police located a “badly bent” and bloody kitchen knife inside a garbage bag. Another bag held a pair of blood-soaked gloves.
Officers located Rahn in his room with stab wounds to his neck and back. Medics declared him dead at the scene.
Adams gave various accounts to police about how and why Rahn was stabbed.
The medical examiner found stab wounds to Rahn’s face, neck, upper body and elsewhere. He also suffered at least 20 stab wounds to one of his hands, which are “consistent with defensive wounds,” the complaint said.
The title track from the coming album by FKA Twigs, “Eusexua,” isn’t exactly euphoric or sexy. Produced by FKA Twigs, Koreless and Earthearter, the track runs on nervous, hopping 16th-notes and distant chords under FKA Twigs’ whispery soprano before a beat fully kicks in. It’s anxious and tentative at first, wondering about a primal, possibly dangerous, possibly life-changing attraction: “Don’t call it love — eusexua.” Later, as the rhythm revs up, she promises, “You feel alone, you’re not alone.” But the propulsion falls away, leaving her “on the edge of something greater than before,” but dangling.
JON PARELES, New York Times
Suki Waterhouse, “Model, Actress, Whatever”
Stardom, by definition, is one of the rarest occupations. It’s also a wildly disproportionate topic for songwriters to take on. The immensely sly, self-conscious and droopy-voiced English model, actress and songwriter Waterhouse takes up the self-pity of a star in “Model, Actress, Whatever,” the title song of her new EP. It’s a slow-building waltz about what happens after making it big: “All of my dreams came true/The bigger the ocean, the deeper the blue,” she declares. She musters grandiose orchestral production to sum up a feeling of emptiness.
JON PARELES, New York Times
