Minnesota company s airplane parachute saves pilot and passenger in Denver midair collision
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. 3:54 pm, May 13, 2021 ×
In this submitted file photo, a Cirrus airplane has deployed its parachute safety device. A similar scene played out Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Denver after a midair collision.
GRAND FORKS A company with a large factory in Grand Forks is receiving attention after two planes collided mid-air Wednesday, May 12, near Denver.
Publishing date: May 13, 2021 • May 13, 2021 • 3 minute read • An image of George Floyd s arrest by Officer Derek Chauvin plays on a screen, on the eighth day of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis April 7, 2021 in this courtroom sketch. Photo by JANE ROSENBERG /via REUTERS
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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.
May 13, 2021
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.
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 “a champion of those on the outside” and used his words to stand up for people. His career as a newspaper columnist spanned 30 years and 8,400 columns.
“Even to the end, as he lived the final chapter of his life with Alzheimer’s, he was still singing songs and telling incredible stories to my sister Meagan and me,” Sen. Klobuchar said. “He loved our state. He loved journalism. He loved sports and adventure. And we loved him.”
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Editorial Roundup: Minnesota
Minneapolis Star Tribune. May 9, 2021.
Editorial: Focus should be on a safer University of Minnesota campus
Student activists seem more focused on a number of unhelpful demands.
Tensions are running high between some University of Minnesota students and campus police. But student activists have made a number of unreasonable demands while the focus should be on better student-police cooperation and improved public safety.
In a letter to administrators last month, student government leaders demanded that U Police Chief Matthew Clark resign. They argue that as a former Minneapolis police officer, his embrace of MPD culture has caused the “traumatization we see in our local marginalized communities … and having a police chief . from that department is only making our community less safe and inclusive.” Several dozen students and about a dozen faculty signed the letter.