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Man fleeing West St. Paul Police crashes and dies
A man fleeing West St. Paul Police officers responding to a domestic disturbance call died early Sunday after crashing and being ejected from the vehicle he was driving, police said.
Before 2 a.m., a woman reported a 35-year-old man had threatened people and caused damage at a West St. Paul home, according to a West. St. Paul Police news release. She reported the man had been drinking heavily and was on drugs. A dispatcher heard the man yelling and possibly throwing objects.
Officers saw a vehicle they believed the suspect was in driving east on Moreland Avenue, the news release said. They attempted to stop it and arrest the driver on suspicion of domestic assault and other charges.
The suspect did not stop the vehicle and instead crossed Robert Street and lost control, striking a power pole and two parked vehicles in a driveway at Moreland Avenue and Kruse Street, police said. The driver was ejected from the vehicle and medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Mendota Heights Police and the Minnesota State Patrol are investigating the incident at the request of West St. Paul Police.
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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Minnesota corrections officials are investigating after an inmate was found dead at the state prison in Moose Lake.
The 37-year-old’s cellmate found the man unresponsive in their room about 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, according to a news release Wednesday from the Corrections Department. Staffers immediately started life-saving efforts, but those efforts failed.
The department’s Office of Special Investigations is looking into the death, with help from the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office. The inmate’s identity was being withheld until notification of family.
