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2-year-old girl dies in Minneapolis shelter of suspected overdose, police say
A 2-year-old girl died following a suspected overdose late Tuesday afternoon in a shelter near downtown Minneapolis, police say.
Off- and on-duty Minneapolis police officers responded around 5:30 p.m. to the Higher Ground Catholic Charities shelter, at 165 Glenwood Av., to a 911 call about an unresponsive child, Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at a news conference outside the shelter.
Officers found the toddler in the apartment with two adults. They began giving life-saving measures including CPR and administered Narcan after seeing evidence of narcotics, said O’Hara, who was one of the responding officers. One of the suspected drugs present was fentanyl, O’Hara said.
The girl was transported to HCMC, where she was pronounced dead.
The two adults at the scene were taken to the police department’s investigations bureau for questioning, O’Hara said. One of the adults is believed to be a parent of the girl. The toddler’s 7-year-old sister was also at the apartment and was unharmed O’Hara said.
“It’s terrible; we’re parents, we’re siblings … just seeing things like this are difficult,” O’Hara told reporters.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner has not yet confirmed the cause of death, but O’Hara said police suspect drugs were involved.
Asked about the broader challenges with the opioid epidemic both locally and nationwide, O’Hara lamented the availability of fentanyl.
“It’s impacting people not just in Minneapolis, but in cities and small towns all over the region,” he said. “”That’s why Narcan is important, but sometimes it’s not enough and we’re not able to get there in time.”
The shelter offers 171 emergency homeless shelter beds and 80 “Pay-For-Stay” beds which cost $7 per night, according to the Catholic Charities website. The “pay-for-stay” option provides beds, lockers, linens, showers and access to employment resources to men trying to exit homelessness, the website says.
LAFAYETTE, Wis. — About 25 children and adults were injured Wednesday when a wagon carrying them overturned at a western Wisconsin apple orchard.
The children, parents and chaperones were on a field trip to the orchard in Lafayette when one of two wagons being pulled by a tractor turned sideways and rolled over, Chippewa County Sheriff Travis Hakes told reporters. Hakes said the tractor was traveling at a low speed when the wagon rolled over while going downhill.
Three people suffered critical injuries, while injuries to five others were considered serious. Authorities didn’t say how many of the injured were children.
The elementary school-age children attend a school in Eau Claire. Lafayette is northeast of Eau Claire.
After about five minutes and several warnings that students participating in the protest would be suspended,, the protesters exited Northrop and Cunningham continued her speech. They later gathered outside on the mall afterwards to shout, “Cunningham, you will see, Palestine will be free.”
Cunningham recounted the story of Norman Borlaug, the U alumnus and agronomist whose research in wheat saved millions from starvation, and said she would prioritize keeping a college education affordable for students.
Cunningham actually took over presidential duties on July 1, replacing Interim President Jeff Ettinger. She oversees a budget of more than $4 billion to run the university’s five campuses, which enrolled more than 68,000 students and employed 27,000 people during the last academic year.
She was chosen for the job last winter over two other candidates: Laura Bloomberg, president of Cleveland State University and former dean of the U’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and James Holloway, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico. She is the U’s second woman president, following Joan Gabel who held the office from 2019 to 2023.
Cunningham will be paid more than $1 million per year — about $975,000 in base pay and an additional $120,000 in retirement contributions. The compensation puts her in the top quarter of Big Ten university presidents.
Sgt. Gordon Blackey, once a security guard to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, allegedly admitted to tracking the woman’s movements in her vehicle, according to a criminal complaint.
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