Minnesota Vikings star Dalvin Cook is facing a lawsuit from a former girlfriend for alleged assault, battery and false imprisonment.

Coverage of the global coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice protests in the U.S. dominated this year’s Pulitzer Prizes.

The Star Tribune reported that it obtained a voicemail that Weeks left for his friend, Joey Hudson, four weeks before Weeks died last month. “There are not that many third-party candidates running, and if you look at where they're running it's disproportionately in some of the most competitive districts in Minnesota,” Evans said. “Running fake candidates to trick people out of their votes is a new low and shows how desperate Minnesota Republicans are,” Evans said. “The efforts of the marijuana legalization parties has been hijacked by Republican operatives seeking to game the system,” they said. Two years later, without a third-party candidate, Craig beat the same Republican by 5 points in a rematch.

MINNEAPOLIS – Matt Blair, one of the great linebackers in Minnesota Vikings history and a six-time Pro Bowler who played in two Super Bowls, has died. Blair, who had been suffering from dementia, died Thursday after an extended period in hospice care, according to the Star Tribune. “He’d been suffering for a while, so I guess maybe it’s a blessing in disguise,” former teammate Scott Studwell told the newspaper. It’s a sad day.”Vikings owner Mark Wilf said in a statement: “Matt Blair was a great presence at Vikings events and a tremendous teammate long after playing. He started 130 of the 160 regular-season games he played, racking up 1,452 tackles, the second most in team history.

(Glenn Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)ST. PAUL, Minn. The Minnesota Legislature passed a package of police accountability measures early Tuesday that includes a ban on neck restraints like the one that was used on George Floyd before his death in Minneapolis. Passage of the measures comes after nearly two months of negotiations that followed Floyd's death May 25. The Democratic governor had to call the special session to give lawmakers a chance to rescind the emergency powers hes been using to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The session also gave legislators another chance to pass the policing measures and a bonding bill, which they were unable to agree on during last months special session. The bonding bill fell to the wayside as legislators worked to pass police reform as time expired on the session.

Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter. The charges allege that a supervisor told one of the officers that because of their race, they would be a potential “liability” around Chauvin. Jail Superintendent Steve Lydon allegedly told superiors that he was informed that day that Chauvin would be arriving in 10 minutes and he made a call “to protect and support” minority employees by shielding them from Chauvin. It would mark the second Department of Human Rights racism probe into a law enforcement agency in recent weeks. The state launched a sweeping inquiry into the Minneapolis Police Department after Floyd’s death.

Protests continued following the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody Monday, broke out in Minneapolis for a third straight night. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody Monday, broke out in Minneapolis for a third straight night. In this May 29, 2020, photo, Portlanders march with flares from the George Floyd vigil at Peninsula Park towards the Justice Center downtown in Portland, Oregon. Protests have been erupting all over the country after George Floyd died earlier this week in police custody in Minneapolis.