Ex-Minnesota high school football coach hopes for second chance after nightmare accusations

If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may [see it online](. [Star Tribune]( Talkers Top stories - Ex-Minnesota high school football coach hopes for second chance after nightmare accusations: Johnny Benson wasn't charged with any crimes. [But he's still out of a job.]( - Minneapolis Park Board votes to reduce size of homeless encampments: The unanimous vote sets boundaries to a previous resolution passed by parks leaders a month ago that allowed the homeless to stay overnight in parks in response to the growing encampments in Powderhorn Park. The Park Board [will designate a select number of parks for encampments]( and disband any others that are not permitted. A committee of the Park Board voted to advance a measure late Wednesday night that, if approved by the full board, [would allow all people to go topless]( on the city’s park property without being ticketed. - Target joins list of major retailers mandating masks: The policy will go into effect Aug. 1. More than 80% of Target's 1,800 stores already require customers to wear masks due to local and state regulations. Target said Thursday that [it will hand out masks at entrances]( to those who need them. - COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths still more prevalent among minorities: The rate of cases alone is [much higher among people in Minnesota who are Black and Hispanic](, which health officials attribute partly to the higher prevalence of minorities working in lower-wage jobs and being unable to work from home during the pandemic. - Man pleads guilty to starting Lola on the Lake fire with hookah embers: A 24-year-old man has pleaded guilty to carelessly disposing embers from a hookah that [accidentally started the fire of a lakeside restaurant]( in a longstanding Bde Maka Ska pavilion. - 3M has investigated 4,000 reports, filed 18 lawsuits over N95 mask scams: 3M has investigated 4,000 reports globally of fraud, counterfeiting and price gouging in connection with its N95 respirators, filing 18 lawsuits in North America, [including one in Minnesota.]( - Minnesota youth vote could have outsized effect in 2020 election: Predictions of youth voting have often fallen short in the past, but new data emerging before the 2020 election suggests that younger voters [could have an outsized impact in state and national politics](, particularly in Minnesota, where rates of youth voting are consistently higher than in other states. - Vatican says bishops should report sex abuse to police: The Vatican told bishops around the world on Thursday [they should report cases of clergy sex crimes to police]( even when not legally bound to do so, in its latest effort to compel church leaders to protect minors from predator priests. - GOP restricts convention attendance over coronavirus fears: The Republican National Committee is [sharply restricting attendance on three of the four nights]( of its convention in Jacksonville, Fla., next month, as it looks for ways to move forward with the event while coronavirus cases are spiking in the state. -   Hey, look at this See life through someone else's window: This website, WindowSwap, allows you to [check out the views submitted by people all over the world](, as well as submit your own. Many of them are quite stunning.  Talk to us! Send feedback on this newsletter, questions, story tips, ideas or anything else to [talkers@startribune.com](.  Trending - Do the things we recycle all actually get recycled? What happens to the bottles, cans and other items we toss in our curbside recycling bins? In [the latest episode of the Curious Minnesota podcast](, host Eric Roper talks with Kate Davenport from Eureka Recycling about how much of what we put in those big blue bins gets recycled. - New Starz TV series "P-Valley" has roots in Minneapolis theater: It takes place in the Mississippi Delta, but the new Starz TV series “P-Valley” may [ring some bells with Twin Cities theatergoers.]( - 7 classic movies with Jane Fonda streaming right now: The two-time Oscar-winner has [lots of classic films available to stream at home](.  Sports roundup - In Pioneer League, St. Thomas football in for the long haul: St. Thomas' MIAC football rivals are located 3, 4, 10, 45, 45, 70, 80 and 240 miles away. In the Pioneer League, [they'll visit Drake (250 miles)]( , Valparaiso (450), Butler (581) and Dayton (700) as their closest rivals. - Twins plan sights, sounds of fan-free games: The Twins held an intrasquad game at Target Field that may have been most notable [its attempt to replicate the conditions]( that baseball will face when this irregular season opens next week. - Fan faces backlash for stockpiling Washington football trademarks: For years, Martin McCaulay, a longtime fan of Washington’s NFL team, has owned a variety of trademarks in virtual anonymity. He laid claim to a variety of potential team names — Washington Americans, Veterans, Pandas and Monuments among them — and no one batted an eye because those teams didn’t really exist. They still don’t exist, but in the days since Washington’s NFL team announced it was abandoning the controversial Redskins name and people familiar with the situation said trademark issues were holding up the unveiling of a new one, McCaulay, a 61-year old actuary from Alexandria, Va., [has faced a backlash of online abuse.](  Did someone forward this newsletter to you? You can [sign up for Talkers here](.  Worth a click The moon may be much younger than we thought: "Researchers from the German Aerospace Center and the University of Münster have released new estimates for the age of the moon. According to their modeling, it's 85 million years younger than current estimates suggest," [reports Jennifer Leman in Popular Mechanics.](  From the archives July 16, 1976: A youngster gave the piñata a good whack at the play area behind Peik Hall at the University of Minnesota during an international teacher pupil festival. The festival, involving 18 teachers and pupils of elementary school age, was part of a 2½-week workshop. (Photo: Steve Schluter/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.](