The American penny died on Wednesday in Philadelphia. It was 232. The cause was irrelevance and expensiveness, the Treasury Department said. Nothing could be bought any more with a penny, as the cost to mint the penny had risen to more than 3 cents. nyti.ms/48bFd5K

Trailblazing Minneapolis resident Clementine Robinson never got the headstone that she wanted. This is the story of how a group of strangers got together to grant the last wish of a woman they never met. Listen now to this bonus episode of the "Ghost of a Chance" podcast. bit.ly/47xM3m0

Sights I saw walking from Loring Park into downtown #Minneapolis. Not sure if you know this, but winter is dark in #Minnesota, so I hope you enjoy a lot of night photography for the next 6 months. #Photography #City #StreetPhotography #Photo #EastCoastKin

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

City girl tries hunting for the first time ahead of Minnesota's 2025 deer firearm opener www.startribune.com/deer-opener-...

this interview made me feel nice

I talked to @minnesotaorchestra.org about their engaging social video strategy that's helping them connect with both younger, newer concertgoers and lifelong fans. @startribune.com www.startribune.com/how-the-minn...

There's no way to discuss invoking the Insurrection Act besides seriously.

"We would go out on tour for two months, and whether it went well or not, we were always happy to come home to play that final show at First Ave because we knew Conrad would be there to greet us." RIP Conrad Sverkerson www.startribune.com/first-avenue...

Fans and artists around Kansas City are embracing the excitement around Missouri-born Chappell Roan, who will perform two sold-out concerts this weekend. Two local drag performers were tapped to help open the shows.

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Most telehealth covered under Medicare is set to expire today. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"Engh’s script is hilarious, breakneck, and so profusely gay that it reads like a dialect. It exemplifies how much the amorphousness of gay identity owes to a ravenous consumption and regurgitation of media."

Look at these morning glories!

I wrote about one man's quest to not have to ride in pitch black darkness through South Minneapolis. Modern day Don Quixote here, except the windmills are lampposts stripped of copper. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

Our lingering summery warmth means fall colors changes are slower than usual around Minnesota this year. Highs in the 80s are likely most of next week! 🌡️ Could peak fall colors in the Twin Cities run into late October?? 🍁 #mnwx www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

“I’ve never been to a more diverse or inclusive crowd at any concert, any sporting event of any kind,“ said Justin Vernon, the Grammy-award winning frontman of Bon Iver who launched a philanthropic partnership with the Lynx this season. www.startribune.com/lynx-fans-se...

So long, Palmer’s. What a perfectly fun, familial and a wee bit chaotic ending. www.startribune.com/palmers-bar-...

More than 1,400 University of Minnesota workers will be on strike by Tuesday night.

Key stat: Canada produces 80% of us newsprint

Did you find love outside the club this summer? We want to hear about it! Tell us about your summer crush/missed connection/romance @startribune.com for a story about Minnesota meet cutes. www.startribune.com/did-you-find...

Oh HELL yes

That's a non-exhaustive list (I've got to get back to reporting!), just a sampling of the kinds of work so many awesome, talented folks are doing over at stribvarsity.com, especially as the Strib Varsity team continues to grow and take shape!

It's been a year since my 7-day contract with @stribsports.startribune.com (+ now Strib Varsity) was upgraded to a standard player agreement (bad internship-to-full-time WNBA analogy?) After 365 days covering high school sports, here's some of my favorite stories I've written on the beat ⬇️🧵

long shot but: if anyone is selling a ticket to wet leg at first ave on 9/9 can you PLEASE let a girl know

How to help victims of the Annunciation Church shooting www.startribune.com/how-to-help-...

Heard you might need a light read? Fake labubus and blind boxes have taken over the Minnesota State Fair, but fans don't seem to mind. @startribune.com www.startribune.com/fake-labubus...

Just in case you need a little joy today: here are some lovely llama costumes from the 4-H costume contest at the State Fair 📸: Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

"My friend Victor like saved me though, because he laid on top of me. But he got hit." 10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.

Of all the photos posted by the Strib related to the shooting at Annunciation Church, this was the one that got me the most. Maybe because we cant see the (presumably) mom’s face, so it seems more universal? arc.stimg.co/startribunem...?

Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

Massive police response to reports of gunfire near south Minneapolis church. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday morning he had been briefed about a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

It’s the most! Wonderful! Time! Of the year!!!

Strib’s fun Uptown boundary project crunches 2,000 reader submissions and — as the definitive authority on this matter — I say they did well! You young people are getting a bit casual, but for once I’m counting on folks getting more conservative as they age! www.startribune.com/we-asked-whe...

We've solved it, and the argument shall never happen again, we declare. This turned out so fun; come for the answer, stay for the pink and purple map at the end.

I'm super proud of our Uptown multiverse map. It may be the most stylish map the Strib has ever published. Prince would be proud!

Welp, folks. We did it. We settled the debate about Uptown's borders. www.startribune.com/we-asked-whe...

Are they going to remove the entire museum of African-American History? Or just the really controversial stuff, like Emmett Till’s casket?

NEW: Slayton, Minnesota, wants to kick Xcel Energy out and form its own government-run electric provider. It's an extraordinary step and one driven by frustration with Xcel's service and emergency response. A city of 2,000 is squaring off with a $43b company: www.startribune.com/this-tiny-to...

Great reporting by Dan Kraker, and great mapping by our own @alyclary.bsky.social in the latest article in @mprnews.org's Troubled by the water series Across northern Minnesota’s pristine lake country, mercury contamination is growing www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

Federal officials are reviewing whether to remove books and signs with historic references to the harsh treatment of Native Americans from Minnesota’s national park sites.

Huge shoutout to Aaron Levinsky for the awesome drone footage in this piece!

Spent a month building this so that Star Tribune readers can finally settle the debate: where is Uptown? The story published a few hours ago and we already have over 700 submissions. Soon we'll compile all the Uptowns to create the definitive map of Minneapolis's most argued-over neighborhood.

maybe the real uptown is the uptown we made along the way startribune.com/uptown

Smol spoiler: There IS no definition, it's just vibes. But you can tell us where your vibes are in a very cool map-drawing tool, and we'll analyze them all over the next couple weeks and try to build some consensus.

HEY FOLKS MY UPTOWN MAP MADE THE STAR TRIBUNE. www.startribune.com/nobody-can-a... (no paywall)

Ppl think every public radio station is NPR. NPR is a network that employs about 1k employees. ~1,500 US public stations employ ~19,000 people. Most of the people who work in public media, by far, don't work for NPR or PBS. They work in your community, for your local station. cpb.org/sites/defaul...

OK, if anyone knows (or is) one of the 7 girls who did this, I think we need a follow-up.

Three days of the MN Yacht Club fest and a lot more round out our Big Gigs concert roundup this week. www.startribune.com/minnesota-ya...