Worked at Star Tribune for 34 years.
Posted: May 12, 2021 7:20 PM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Jim Klobuchar, a longtime Minnesota newspaper reporter and columnist and the father of U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, has died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
He was 93. His daughter, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, said that throughout his life her father was “a champion of those on the outside” and used his words to stand up for people. In her bid for president, Klobuchar talked often about her father’s public struggles with alcoholism and how he helped others by sharing his story.
Jim Klobuchar, columnist and Minnesota senatorâs father, dies at 93 By Don Haney
May 13, 2021 | 4:29 AM
MINNEAPOLIS â Jim Klobuchar, a longtime Minnesota newspaper reporter, and columnist, and the father of U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, has died after a long battle with Alzheimerâs disease.
Klobuchar died Wednesday at the Emerald Crest care facility in Burnsville, a Twin Cities suburb, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He was 93.
Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota senator, said that throughout his life her father was âa champion of those on the outsideâ and used his words to stand up for people. His career as a newspaper columnist spanned 30 years and 8,400 columns.
White Sox shoot for sweep while Twins look for answers
Field Level Media
13 May 2021, 17:55 GMT+10
After batting .213 with 29 strikeouts in April, Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu has found his hitting stroke in May.
Abreu s two-hit, three-RBI night Wednesday helped spur Chicago to a 13-8 victory against the visiting Minnesota Twins. Abreu raised his May average to .313, and he evenzoomed around the bases with a first-inning RBI triple.
The reigning American League MVP will look to keep going Thursday as the first-place White Sox aim for a three-game series sweep of the defending American League Central champs.
Rediscovering an attentive eye at the plate has been key for Abreu.
The Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) has been deployed 103 times, saving more than 200 people, according to data provided by Cirrus. CAPS has been included in the SR series of aircraft since 1999, and is now a standard on all Cirrus aircraft. There are more than 8,000 SR Series aircraft and 300 of the company’s Vision Jets in use worldwide.
By Brendan O Brien and Julia Harte (Reuters) - A judge in Minneapolis on Thursday postponed the trial of three former policemen accused of taking part in the murder of George Floyd to March 2022, saying the federal case against the men should proceed first, local media reported. Tou Thao, 25, J. Alexander Kueng, 27, and Thomas Lane, 28 - all fired and arrested days after the 46-year-old Black man was killed on May 25 - have been charged with aiding and abetting the second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter of Floyd. White former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted on April 20 of murdering Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes, in a case that marked a milestone in America s fraught racial history and a rebuke of law enforcement’s treatment of Black Americans. The death, captured on cellphone video, led to protests around the nation and overseas. Lane is white, Kueng is Black and Thao is of Hmong descent. A federal grand jury in Minneapolis la