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Two big issues before the Minneapolis City Council are getting votes Thursday. And more than two dozen people were taken to hospitals Wednesday after a hay ride accident at a western Wisconsin apple orchard. 
Two rounds of severe thunderstorms are possible across Minnesota over the next couple of days. And in a recent message to families, Minneapolis Public Schools says measles has been identified in at least one of the district's schools.
Minnesotans who lost a home for failing to pay property taxes in the past few years could be entitled to compensation. And Minneapolis police say they misidentified a man accused of pistol whipping two residents of a north Minneapolis shelter.
Minnesota State University, Mankato announced a five-year agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield to open The Rural Behavioral Health Clinic this year. Rural patients living in greater Minnesota often encounter barriers to receiving services including having to travel great distances to see mental and behavioral health care providers. And the Hennepin County Attorney's Office today dismissed charges against a man accused of attacking residents of a north Minneapolis homeless shelter after police misidentified the suspect.
Associate Justice Theodora Gaïtas took the oath of office Monday, joining the Minnesota Supreme Court. Minnesota's highest court is now woman-led. And St. Paul police are investigating a shooting that left a man dead on the city's west side. It's the 18th homicide of the year in St. Paul.
Another busy week on the campaign trail awaits Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president. Walz is headed to Georgia and North Carolina, two swing states on the East Coast. And Minneapolis-based Target is going on a pre-holiday season hiring spree.
The FBI says former president Donald Trump was the target of an “attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla. And Minneapolis police have released the ages of the victims in Saturday's hit-and-run in downtown.
Responders are fighting two small wildfires in northern Minnesota. The Wood Lake fire is burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and another blaze is going near Burntside Lake not far from Ely. And the Minnesota Board of Animal Health has confirmed the state's first positive case of West Nile virus in a horse this year.
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Provinzino from St. Cloud as Minnesota’s newest federal judge. And dozens of Minneapolis residents Thursday voiced their opinions at a city council committee hearing about the proposed Blue Line extension plan.