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Farmers’ Almanac Predicting a Wet Winter Whirlwind Ahead
UNDATED (WJON News) -- The Farmers' Almanac is out with its winter prediction for 2024-2025. Taking into account that a La Nina is expected to develop and hang on through the season, the Farmers' Almanac is calling it a Wet Winter Whirlwind. That means most regions will be wet and cold.
Girls Flag Football Debuts in Two Area High Schools
They arrived at the field with no previous workouts, practiced 45 minutes and then won their first-ever game against a team with previous game experience. Those were the girls from Houston in the Minnesota pilot summer league for girls flag football, which will be an Olympic sport in the next 2028 games. The National Football League (NFL) is promoting it, specifically in this area, by the Minnesota Vikings, who have invested $300,000 in developing the sport with the goal of seeing it sanctioned as a high school sport by the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL). Eleven states already sanction girls flag football; Minnesota has just become one of another 19 states who have run pilot programs, resulting in 30 of the 51 state associations participating in girls flag football in some way.
Minnesotan’s Husband Appears at Target Field With Some Friends
A New Brighton woman's husband took a trip to Target Field this past Saturday night to hang out with a few (tens of thousands) of his friends. It really was thoughtful of her to let him out of the house on such a beautiful Minnesota evening!. In today's episode of...
Frat Nightmare: This Minnesotan Is the Victim of ‘The Worst Fraternity Hazing Injury Ever’
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN – A new true-crime series is putting the tragic story of Danny Santulli back in the headlines. Santulli currently lives with his parents in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. In October 2021, Daniel “Danny” Santulli, a freshman at the University of Missouri in Columbia, became the victim of...
Massive Chicken Nugget Recall Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota
Thousands of pounds of Chicken Nuggets have been recalled in Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and across the nation. Perdue Farms has issued a significant recall of approximately 160,000 pounds of chicken nuggets due to potential metal contamination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has classified this as a Class I...
Throw It Away ASAP! Massive Cucumber Minnesota & Iowa Recall
Some Minnesota and Iowa residents might not be feeling the greatest after eating cucumber. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising Minnesotans and Iowans to stay away from cucumbers. Cucumbers from growers in Florida are being recalled for possible Salmonella contamination. Infections are spreading across 31 states...
Medicare drug price negotiations will lower costs, save lives
Last week, the Biden-Harris administration celebrated a huge milestone in making health care more affordable. For the first time, Medicare is allowed to use their purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. The first round of negotiated drug prices will lower costs for ten of the costliest and most popular medications that treat conditions like diabetes, […]
Experts urge parents to check in on teens' mental health
MINNEAPOLIS — Between back-to-school shopping and last-minute cabin getaways, now might be the perfect opportunity to check in with your child about their mental health. The statistics are unsettling."We've seen a lot more anxiety, a lot more social anxiety, a significant increase in school refusal and that's been a really hard thing," Dr. Joshua Stein, PrairieCare child and adolescent psychiatrist and clinical director, said. According to the latest youth risk behavior survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40% of teenagers say they constantly feel sad or hopeless."That's a lot of our teenage population. So we want to make...
Abortion rights could again be key issue in Minnesota's 2nd District race
MINNEAPOLIS — The race for Congress in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District is set. Former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab will face three-term Democratic Rep. Angie Craig in the November election.Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District is evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. Among the communities in the district are Red Wing, Hastings and Eagan.For years it was represented by Republicans. Craig broke that streak in 2018. Craig has won both her reelection bids in 2020 and 2022 by comfortable margins.This year she will face Teirab, a Marine Corps veteran and a former federal and county prosecutor. Craig credits her strong abortion rights positions as helping her...
Harris-Walz ticket sharpens contrast with Trump-Vance on health care
Stillwater, Minnesota — Vice President Kamala Harris' selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate is making health care a front-burner issue in the final sprint to the November presidential election.Walz, a 60-year-old former high school teacher and football coach, has a record of supporting left-leaning health care initiatives during his two terms as governor and while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019. He also leads a state central to the health care industry: Minnesota is home both to the nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, and one of its most prestigious hospital systems,...
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