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Lynx fans from across the country are tuning for Sunday’s big championship game
So they would anxiously wait to read after-game coverage in the newspaper. And occasionally she would take to Facebook to share her reactions. She’s been posting about the Lynx, her love of basketball and literal hoop dreams for years. For example:
“When he woke Sunday a.m. my husband told me he’d been dreaming he was playing basketball. (He did captain the Little Falls Flyers to a successful season, but that was in 1947.) He said, ‘I found I could touch the rim. I couldn’t do that when I was 17.’ —Dream well, friends,” she wrote in 2013.
The posts are a testament and record of her devotion to the Lynx, who she calls “tall, strong, fast girls who can pass and guard and shoot the three.”
More than once she told disappointed Vikings and Twins fans to perhaps consider supporting the state’s most accomplished professional team instead.
“Maybe one of these years the T-wolves will do something,” she said.
“I’d rather put my money on Cheryl Reeve and the girls for now.”
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Edina absentee ballots show no evidence of tampering after being left unattended in open trunk
A Hennepin County courier driver was fired after absentee ballots the driver was transporting were briefly left unattended in the back of a vehicle outside Edina City Hall on Friday. Surveillance footage shows no one tampered with the sealed boxes of ballots, according to a statement from Hennepin County.
Other checks by the city confirmed no ballots were lost or damaged, and no new ballots were found in the pile. The cases were left unattended for less than eight minutes, according to a review of the 18-minute surveillance video by a Minnesota Star Tribune reporter.
The ballot security issue was brought to light after a photo of ballot boxes in an open car trunk outside the city hall and police station was shared on X, by a local Republican group questioning the security of the ballots. The post was widely shared by conservative media outlets over the weekend.
In a statement, Hennepin County called it a “lapse” and “unacceptable” that absentee ballots were left unattended by the courier, who was collecting returned ballots from City Hall and transporting them to the county offices.
“Election security is of utmost importance, and leaving ballots unattended is simply unacceptable,” Hennepin County Auditor Daniel Rogan said in a statement. “An incident like this underscores the value of strong chain-of-custody processes, so that risk can be addressed and integrity can be verified.”
The post came as other Republican groups across the country are casting doubt on absentee voting and voter registration, including in Minnesota.
Last week, other Republican groups and conservative legal groups filed a petition with the Minnesota Supreme Court challenging Hennepin County’s process for selecting election judges for its absentee ballot board.
In Edina, every ballot was accounted for by matching records from the statewide voter registration system for absentee ballots received with the ballots that were in the cases, according to the city’s statement. That matching process happens with every transfer of ballots.
A woman was fatally shot in an apartment in St. Paul’s North End Saturday, police said.
St. Paul Police responded to calls of shots fired and a person shot on the 100 block of Sycamore Street East after 9 p.m. Saturday, according to a St. Paul Police news release. There, they aided a woman with gunshot wounds until medics arrived and pronounced her dead.
During that call, a police sergeant was waved down nearby to respond to a carjacking and related gunshot, the news release said.
A carjacking victim had been shot and the suspect took off in the victim’s vehicle. The carjacking victim had non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to Regions Hospital.
The incidents are under investigation. Police believe they are connected but said they need more information to confirm it. The name of the deceased victim has not been released.
The fatal shooting was the fourth St. Paul homicide in 10 days.
On Tuesday, St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry held a press conference denouncing the violence after three homicides and a non-fatal shooting of a man by his co-worker at a post office on Seventh Street West in four days.
“It appears that we have a new generation of folks that think the right way to solve problems is by shooting people, even coworkers, and it’s reprehensible and it has to stop,” Henry said.
A 24-year-old Edina man died after crashing his motorcycle into a bridge abutment in Brooklyn Center Saturday night, according to the State Patrol.
The man was going north on Highway 252 shortly before midnight when he left the road and struck the abutment near Interstate 694, the State Patrol said in a crash report. The victim has not been identified.
On Friday, Gordon Wayne Zieman, 61, of New Brighton, died after his motorcycle hit a car whose driver was attempting to merge from the shoulder to Interstate 35W near downtown Minneapolis, according to the State Patrol.
