Nine inches of rain washes out roads, floods homes in western Wisconsin

If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may [see it online](. [Star Tribune]( Talkers Top stories - Nine inches of rain washes out roads, floods homes in western Wisconsin: [Rain continued to fall Monday morning]( in the waterlogged cities of {NAME}, Hammond and Woodville, where some roads were impassable and many had basements filling up with water. Hwy. 63 north of {NAME} was washed out and is closed. the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office said. - Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion clinic law: Chief Justice John Roberts [joined with his four more liberal colleagues]( in ruling that the law requiring doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals violates the abortion right the court first announced in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. - Former officers to appear in court today in George Floyd killing: Four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd are [scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon](. Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly eight minutes, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are scheduled to appear one at a time for an omnibus hearing starting at 12:15 p.m. - Couple draws guns at crowd heading to St. Louis mayor's home: A white couple [pointed guns at protesters in St. Louis]( as a group marched toward the mayor's home to demand her resignation after she read the names and addresses of several residents who supported defunding the police department during an online briefing. A social media video showed the armed couple standing outside of their large home Sunday evening in the upscale Central West End neighborhood of the Missouri city. - At epicenter of Minneapolis riots, a reckoning is underway: Dozens of buildings burned within a quarter-mile of the corner of Lake and Minnehaha, and people there are [wrestling with whether the eruption of lawlessness served a purpose](. Starting the long journey to rebuild, they’re veering from grief to hope and reconciling how the destruction of their businesses brought the world’s attention to George Floyd’s death and the cause of racial injustice. - COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to decline: [Hospitalizations for COVID-19 have declined over the past week]( in Minnesota from 332 last Monday to 278 today, reflecting continued progress in detecting and managing the infectious disease among the elderly and other high-risk individuals. The Minnesota Department of Health on Monday also reported 10 deaths from COVID-19, which is caused by a novel coronavirus, bringing the total in the pandemic to 1,435. - Still in short supply in Minnesota, N95 masks used over and over: Three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses and other clinicians are being [forced to reuse hospital masks]( in ways that would have gotten them written up a year ago. - Frey, Arradondo announce new body-camera rules for police: The previous policy allowed officers to review body camera footage before writing an initial report about an incident involving use of force. The new rules [require that report to be written first](. Police said it’s designed to better capture officers’ perceptions at the time the officer acted. - Twin Cities Pride shares its moment with Black Lives Matter: [Pride intersected with Black Lives Matter on Sunday]( as hundreds marched to Minneapolis’ Loring Park on a weekend typically reserved for the annual gay pride festival. The Taking Back Pride march made its way through downtown Sunday demanding justice for George Floyd while calling for community control of the police and raising awareness of the violence against black transgender women. - Are "Minnesota Naughty" drivers making roads less safe? Citations for excessive speeding — drivers caught going 100 mph or faster — [were up 149% in April and May](, and law enforcement has reported increases in drivers running red lights and stop signs. A recent two-week distracted driving campaign resulted in tickets for 1,034 drivers, according to the DPS.  Watch this Boaters successfully remove plastic jug from swimming bear's head: Three members of the Hurt family spotted a young black bear swimming in the middle of a Wisconsin lake with a plastic container stuck over its head. After several attempts, [they were able to pull the jug off its head]( and the bear made it safely to shore.  Talk to us! Send feedback on this newsletter, questions, story tips, ideas or anything else to [talkers@startribune.com](.  Trending - Is your mask too hot? Don't sweat it. Even as temperatures rise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends wearing face masks, and in some cases, it is required. The good news is that there are some strategies to [help make masks more bearable in warm weather.]( - Delayed by pandemic and unrest, new black-owned juice bar coming to south Minneapolis: Catiesha Pierson’s dream to own a juice bar by the time she turned 30 had just come true, when everything stopped. Pierson signed the lease on a space in Minneapolis’s Longfellow neighborhood in March, just a couple of months before her 30th birthday. Walls still needed to be built and paperwork filled out when the coronavirus effectively shut down Minneapolis. When schools closed, she had to balance starting a business while supervising her 10-year-old son’s schoolwork from home. Then, unrest gripped the neighborhood where she lived and worked, after George Floyd was killed by police. The new business, [called the Dripping Root]( , is located at 4002 Minnehaha Av., just 1.4 miles from the fire-damaged Third Precinct. - Vendors get creative to hawk State Fair foods: With the 2020 State Fair canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, visitors and vendors alike are [looking to food to fill the void]( left by the loss of Minnesota’s most beloved annual gathering.  Sports roundup - Twins set pool of 59 players for training camp: The team’s 40-man roster is [joined by an initial 19-player taxi squad](, leaving one spot open for an addition down the line. Players can be moved back and forth from the active roster to the taxi squad. - U football recruits Fleck's approach through pandemic, unrest: [The Gophers have landed 11 commitments]( since NCAA banned in-person recruiting because of COVID-19 concerns. - Minnesota gymnasts back in training for Tokyo Olympics: Earlier this month, Grace McCallum's Twin City Twisters and Suni Lee's Midwest Gymnastics reopened their facilities, allowing them to [return to training for the postponed Olympics.](  Did someone forward this newsletter to you? You can [sign up for Talkers here](.  Worth a click Solving the medical mystery of a brain that sees numbers as spaghetti: "[A patient known as] RFS developed corticobasal syndrome in 2010 at the age of 60, a rare progressive degenerative condition that affects less than one in 100,000 people per year and corrupts parts of the cortex and basal ganglia in the brain. After about a year of headaches, and flashes of vision loss and amnesia, RFS started having muscle tremors, difficulty walking, and—perhaps most strangely—the inability to see numbers. Experts have dubbed his number confusion 'digit metamorphopsia,' and hope his condition could lead to a better understanding of human perception," [Hannah Seo reports for PopSci](.  From the archives June 29, 1978: Four blocks of Division St. in Northfield were torn up as workers prepared to install new sewer and water mains. (Photo: Star Tribune) Connect with Star Tribune [facebook]([twitter]([pinterest]([instagram]( [Manage email preferences]( • [Subscribe to Star Tribune]( • [Privacy Policy]( • [Unsubscribe]( This email was sent by: StarTribune, 650 3rd Ave S, Suite #1300, Minneapolis, MN, 55488 © 2020 StarTribune. All rights reserved. We value your opinion! [Give us your feedback.](