Former DeLaSalle star Tyrell Terry picks up pieces of a life broken by basketball

Plus: St. Paul had worst air quality in U.S. on Wednesday, but relief is on the way ͏ ͏ If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may [see it online](. [Star Tribune]( Talkers TOP STORIES - Former DeLaSalle star Tyrell Terry picks up pieces of a life broken by basketball: To grow, he had to let go. Tyrell Terry had NBA talent and a contract to match. But basketball was destroying him, so he gave it up. [Read more.]( - St. Paul had worst air quality in U.S. on Wednesday, but relief is on the way: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) said Thursday that air quality should be improving across northern Minnesota, where an alert is on the verge of expiring. However, heavy smoke will continue to linger Thursday over east-central and southern Minnesota, but "air quality should steadily improve for the Twin Cities today," the latest notice from the MPCA read. [Read more.]( - Hennepin County attorney plans new effort to curb youth car theft: In back-to-back news conferences Wednesday at the Hennepin County Government Center, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty unveiled a collaboration with law enforcement and social workers to intervene with at-risk youth and prevent crime before it occurs. Meanwhile, activist and attorney Nekima Levy-Armstrong hosted a separate event after to say kids are crying out for help and more funding for community-based programming is needed to give youth something to do besides joyride in stolen cars. [Read more.]( - Supreme Court rejects challenge to Native American child welfare law: The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children, rejecting a broad attack from Republican-led states and white families who argued it is based on race. [Read more.]( - BWCA fire recedes with hotshot crew on the way: The Spice Lake Fire that began Tuesday in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness shrunk to 20 acres by Wednesday night. It had been 30 acres earlier in the day. A 19-person hotshot crew is expected to arrive within the next few days to work the fire from the ground, the Superior National Forest said. The elite team was ordered because of the logistics of supporting firefighters in such a remote area. [Read more.]( WATCH THIS Snake climbing brick wall reminds internet of early mobile video game: The National Park Service shared a video of a coral snake bending and stretching as it slowly climbed a brick wall at Coronado National Memorial in San Diego. The tweet read "If it runs into itself, game over" — a reference to the "Snake" video game that was popular among Nokia mobile phone users in the late 1990s. [See the video.]( *** Talk to us! Send feedback on this newsletter, questions, story tips, ideas or anything else to [talkers@startribune.com](. *** TRENDING What's more exciting than paddleboarding and easier than windsurfing? Welcome to eFoiling. Imagine you're floating above the surface of Lake Harriet, standing up and flying nearly silently across the water. It's not a dream. It's eFoiling, a new kind of personal watercraft that combines a surfboard with an electric motor and an underwater wing that lifts the board up and allows you to hydrofoil above the surface of the water. [Read more.]( SPORTS BLINK Whalen took $215K settlement instead of U administrative role: University documents show Whalen declined to work as a special assistant to athletic director Mark Coyle in a fundraising role. [Read more.]( *** Did someone forward this newsletter to you? You can [sign up for Talkers here](. *** WORTH A CLICK Ecuadorian woman presumed dead found alive in coffin at her wake: "A 76-year-old woman who was declared dead at a hospital in Ecuador was found to be alive and knocking on her coffin during her own wake in the city of Babahoyo," Duarte Mendonca reports for CNN. [Read more.]( FROM THE ARCHIVES June 15, 2022: Fur trader Hannibal Haase was a vendor at the Class 3A state high school trap shooting competition at the Alexandria Shooting Park in Alexandria. (Photo: Jerry Holt/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 © 2023 StarTribune. All rights reserved. We value your opinion! [Give us your feedback.](