Honoring the 51st anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Eagan sues a data center, and Today is Veterans Day.
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WITH HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE STATE, I’M XAN HOLSTON.
COMING UP... DETAILS ON HOW YOU CAN SEE THE WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS TREE... RIGHT HERE IN MINNESOTA...
PLUS... HOW A FILM CANISTER BREAKS A MAYORAL TIE.
BUT FIRST …
[TOLLING BELLS, NAMES BEING READ ALOUD]
A MEMORIAL FOR THE SAILORS LOST ON THE GREAT LAKES.
[TOLLING BELLS, NAMES BEING READ ALOUD]
--SINKING OF EDMUND FITZGERALD CEREMONY--
THE SOUND OF BELLS AT THE SPLIT ROCK LIGHTHOUSE ON LAKE SUPERIOR LAST NIGHT IN HONOR OF SAILORS LOST...
THE EDMUND FITZGERALD SANK IN LAKE SUPERIOR 51 YEARS AGO … TAKING 29-SAILORS WITH IT.
DURING THE ANNUAL MEMORIAL … BELLS TOLLED AS EACH SAILOR’S NAME WAS READ ALOUD.
THEN … STAFF LIT THE LIGHTHOUSE BEACON IN MEMORY OF EVERYONE LOST ON THE GREAT LAKES.
--VETERANS DAY CEREMONIES & LEGISLATION--
ABOUT 270-THOUSAND MILITARY VETERANS CALL MINNESOTA HOME... TODAY... DULUTH IS HOST OF THE STATE'S ANNUAL VETERANS' DAY CEREMONY.
UNDER A NEW LAW PASSED DURING THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION... MORE NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS AND RESERVISTS WILL QUALIFY FOR BURIAL IN MINNESOTA’S STATE VETERANS' CEMETERIES STARTING JANUARY FIRST.
THE SAME LAW ALSO OPENED STATE BENEFITS TO MORE HMONG AND LAO VETERANS OF THE SECRET WAR IN LAOS.
RETIRED ARMY COLONEL YEE HANG TOLD NORTH STAR STORIES WHAT HIS FATHER, A SECRET WAR VETERAN, LEFT BEHIND.
[RETIRED U-S ARMY COLONEL YEE HANG: THEY LEFT EVERYTHING. THEY LEFT WITH ONLY WHAT THEY COULD CARRY, CAME TO A BRAND-NEW COUNTRY TO START OVER.]
HMONG VETERANS PREVIOUSLY TURNED DOWN FOR BURIAL IN A NATIONAL VETERANS' CEMETERY CAN REQUEST A REVIEW FOR PROOF OF THEIR SERVICE..
THOSE WHO QUALIFY CAN ALSO RECEIVE VETERAN’S STATUS DESIGNATION ON MINNESOTA DRIVER'S LICENSES AND I-D CARDS STARTING NEXT YEAR.
--NATIVE VETERAN'S POWWOWS--
THE STATE ESTIMATES MORE THAN TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED AMERICAN INDIAN VETERANS LIVE IN MINNESOTA.
THE LEECH LAKE BAND IS HOLDING ITS VETERANS POWWOW SATURDAY IN WALKER... SOUTHEAST OF BEMIDJI
MEANWHILE … THE LOWER SIOUX INDIAN COMMUNITY WILL HOLD ITS POWWOW OVER THE WEEKEND. IN MORTON.. IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA.
[MUSIC TRANSITION ]
--SPRING LAKE PARK MAYOR WINNER OF GAME OF CHANCE--
STATE LAW REQUIRES CITIES TO 'DRAW LOTS' TO BREAK A TIE IN AN ELECTION... WHICH IS BASICALLY A GAME OF CHANCE..
THE NORTH METRO CITY OF SPRING LAKE PARK DREW FILM CANISTERS WITH NAMES IN THEM TO DECIDE IT'S NEXT MAYOR ... PICKING INCUMBENT MAYOR ROBERT NELSON.
NOW... CHALLENGER HALYN ROTH IS REQUESTING A HAND RECOUNT ... WHICH IS SET FOR NEXT TUESDAY.
--NEW ULM WRITE-IN WINNER--
IN SOUTHERN MINNESOTA... NEW ULM VOTERS FILLED A CITY COUNCIL SEAT WITHOUT ANY CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT.
SUE ULLERY WON THE SEAT WITH 240-WRITE-IN VOTES.
--NICOLE MITCHELL BACK IN POLITICS--
A BURGLARY CONVICTION ENDED NICOLE MITCHELL’S TIME IN THE MINNESOTA SENATE LAST YEAR...
NOW.. UNOFFICIAL RESULTS SHOW SHE HAS WON A CITY COUNCIL SEAT IN WOODBURY... A SAINT PAUL SUBURB …
SHE RESIGNED FROM THE SENATE LAST YEAR AFTER A JURY CONVICTED HER OF BREAKING INTO HER STEPMOTHER’S HOME.
--LOBBYIST PLEADS GUILTY--
AND.. WOODBURY-BASED STATE LOBBYIST JONATHAN BOHN PLEADED GUILTY TO SENDING TEXTS THREATENING TO SHOOT PEOPLE AT THE STATE CAPITOL.
PROSECUTORS SAY HE SENT THE TEXTS DAYS AFTER LAST YEAR’S DEADLY ATTACKS ON LAWMAKERS AND THEIR SPOUSES.
--ELK RIVER CHILD CARE CLOSED AFTER GROOMING--
STATE OFFICIALS SHUT DOWN AND SUSPENDED THE LICENSE OF AN ELK RIVER HOME CHILD CARE… NORTHWEST OF THE METRO... SAYING THE PROVIDER’S HUSBAND GROOMED AND SEXUALLY ABUSED TWO GIRLS.
PROSECUTORS SAY THE HUSBAND USED CANDY TO LURE THE SIX- AND EIGHT-YEAR-OLD SISTERS.
--EAGAN SUES DATA CENTER--
THE SOUTH METRO CITY OF EAGAN IS ASKING A JUDGE TO SHUT DOWN A DATA CENTER’S COOLING EQUIPMENT ... SAYING IT IS OPERATING WITHOUT REQUIRED PERMITS.
THE CITY COUNCIL SAYS "EAGAN CAPITAL" KEPT THEM RUNNING DESPITE A PERMIT DENIAL IN MAY... AND A STOP ORDER.
EAGAN’S MAYOR SAYS NEIGHBORS WHO COMPLAINED ABOUT NOISE HAVE WAITED MONTHS FOR ACTION.
[EAGAN MAYOR MIKE MAGUIRE: UNFORTUNATELY, IN ORDER FOR THESE THINGS TO BE DONE RIGHT, THEY SOMETIMES TAKE TIME TO CROSS THE Ts AND DOT THE Is.]
THE COMPANY FILED ITS OWN SUIT AGAINST THE CITY IN JUNE ... SAYING IT DOESN’T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO REGULATE ENERGY USAGE.
--LAKE STREET OPENS AT NICOLLET--
IT TOOK NEARLY FIFTY YEARS … BUT MINNEAPOLIS IS FINALLY PUTTING NICOLLET AVENUE BACK TOGETHER.
THE CITY CLOSED A BLOCK OF THE MAIN NEIGHBORHOOD THOROUGHFARE IN SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS IN 1977 TO MAKE ROOM FOR A K-MART...
THE STORE CLOSED IN 2020 … AND WAS TORN DOWN.
THE REBUILT STREET WILL REOPEN LATER THIS MONTH
--ALBERT LEA, CHRISTMAS TREE--
AND FINALLY … IF YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS....
[PIANO PLAYING “OH CHRISTMAS TREE”]
CHRISTMAS IS COMING EARLY TO SOUTHERN MINNESOTA … BUT ONLY FOR A COUPLE HOURS.
A 76-FOOT-TALL SPRUCE KNOWN AS THE “PEOPLE’S TREE” … MAKES A PIT STOP *TOMORROW IN ALBERT LEA ON ITS WAY OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS TO D-C … WHERE IT WILL SPEND THE HOLIDAYS DECORATING THE CAPITOL’S WEST LAWN.
YOU CAN CATCH IT AT FOUNTAIN AND BROADWAY IN ALBERT LEA … FROM FIVE TO SEVEN … AND SIGN A TOUR BANNER BEFORE IT LEAVES.
FOR NORTH STAR STORIES, I’M XAN HOLSTON.