Dog rescued after spending months lost outside during Minnesota winter

If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may [see it online](. [Star Tribune]( Talkers TOP STORIES - Dog rescued after spending months lost outside during Minnesota winter: [Hobbes spent 66 days ranging across hundreds of miles]( before he was tracked down and brought home safely. - Citizens debate Minneapolis City Council plan to replace police: The latest gauge of public opinion over a plan to replace the Minneapolis Police Department revealed a deeply divided city, with nearly 100 speakers at a public hearing Thursday [offering passionate and competing views.]( - Minnesota surpasses 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered: Minnesota has now [provided more than 1 million doses of vaccine]( to fight the virus that causes COVID-19, Gov. Tim Walz announced Friday, even as weather-related delays are prompting some vaccine providers to cancel appointments. With the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations falling, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Thursday [lifted an emergency order restricting bar service in the city.]( - Catalytic converters are at the center of a Twin Cities crime wave: Thefts of [the automotive emission-control devices that contain precious metals more valuable than gold]( are fast and easy, and are part of a crime wave happening all over the Twin Cities urban core and in the suburbs. Thefts are up 194% this year in St. Paul and were up 456% last year in Minneapolis. In Eagan, police report the biggest spike in more than 12 years. - Even Minnesota felt the effects of the Texas storm: Power outages triggered by once-in-a-lifetime winter weather in southern states [crept to the corners of western Minnesota this week](. A stretch of rural southwestern Minnesota and the city of Moorhead in the northwest — unlike most of Minnesota — are part of a regional electrical grid that travels through the Dakotas south to the edges of Texas. - Minnesota's public school enrollment drops in pandemic school year: Enrollment in Minnesota's public schools [dropped by 2% for this school year](, as many parents opted for private school, home schooling, or postponed their students' kindergarten year because of pandemic-related concerns. - Rochester couple suspected of torching St. Paul school, stores during unrest caught in Mexico: A Minnesota husband and wife accused in connection with setting fire to a St. Paul school during rioting in the Twin Cities last summer [have been caught hiding out in Mexico and brought back to the United States](, federal authorities say. - Shuttered Sam's Club in St. Louis Park will become a corporate headquarters: Office equipment supplier Loffler Companies will convert a former Sam's Club in St. Louis Park into [a new headquarters and warehouse for the company.]( - GOP Sen. Thune says Trump allies are engaging in "cancel culture": U.S. Sen. John Thune is criticizing Republican activists and party leaders for [engaging in "cancel culture" by rushing to censure GOP senators]( who found former President Donald Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection. - Back in Paris pact, U.S. vows no more sidelining of climate: The United States [officially returned to the Paris global climate accord]( on Friday, and President Joe Biden and other U.S. leaders declared the nation could not afford to sideline the growing climate crisis again. WATCH THIS Japanese supertrain blasts through snow at 200 MPH: You don't want to be standing next to the tracks [when this thing shoots past.]( Talk to us! Send feedback on this newsletter, questions, story tips, ideas or anything else to [talkers@startribune.com](. TRENDING - 6 places in the Twin Cities to kick off fish fry season: [Get your fried fish fix at these local restaurants.]( - The 5 best things our food writers ate this week: From cranberry jam toaster pastries to deep-fried pickle roll-ups, [here's a rundown of the greatest hits]( from their dining diaries over the past seven days. - Alaska woman using outhouse attacked by bear, from below: "I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down," [Shannon Stevens told The Associated Press on Thursday.]( Interested in the latest news and features from St. Cloud? We're launching a newsletter with coverage anchored by Jenny Berg, who has reported on the region for years. [Sign up for St. Cloud Today here.]( SPORTS ROUNDUP - Why modern baseball is unkind to thirty-somethings like Dozier, Plouffe: A player that would have been signing a contract extension in the spring of 2018 to stick around into the next decade at sizable dollars appears to face two unfortunate options in 2021, [writes Patrick Reusse.]( - Gophers' Kalscheur out 3-4 weeks, Robbins not practicing: Gophers starting junior guard Gabe Kalscheur is [expected to be sidelined 3-4 weeks after having surgery]( to repair a broken finger on his right shooting hand, Richard Pitino said Friday. Starting center Robbins' status with a "severely" sprained ankle is hopeful for Saturday vs. Illinois at Williams Arena. - Projecting the NCAA men's hockey tournament field: We're only five weeks away from puck drop in the national tournament, [and details are starting to emerge](. Subjectivity will play a big role this year in the selections. Did someone forward this newsletter to you? You can [sign up for Talkers here](. WORTH A CLICK Scientists unlock mystery of massive holes forming in Siberian permafrost: "Themassive craterappeared violently and explosively in the Siberian tundra last year — a powerful blowout of methane gas throwing ice and rock hundreds of feet away and leaving a gaping circular scar in the empty and eerie landscape. It was the 17th hole to appear in the remote Yamal and Gyda peninsulas in the Russian Arctic since the first was spotted in 2013, mystifying scientists. The craters arethought to be linked to climate change. Drone photography, 3D modeling and artificial intelligence are helping to reveal their secrets," [CNN's Katie Hunt reports.]( TALKERS TRIVIA Want to win a $15 gift card of your choice? It's Friday, so that means it's time for another trivia question. The correct answer to this question can be found in a story that appeared in Talkers this week. We can't prevent you from simply Googling the answer, so Googling is encouraged! 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