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Loved ones gather to plant tree for 7-year-old killed in Minneapolis bicycle accident

Family, friends and first responders gathered Wednesday outside 7-year-old Penelope Thompson's home in Minneapolis to plant a tree in her honor. She died when a motorist hit her while she was riding her bicycle in early September.

By Renée Jones Schneider

October 11, 2023 at 7:27PM
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Renée Jones Schneider has been a multimedia photographer at the Minnesota Star Tribune since 2003.

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Eviction filings up in Minnesota amid ICE surge

FILE -- A rent deposit slot at an apartment complex in Tucker, Ga., on July 21, 2020. As an eviction crisis has seemed increasingly likely this summer, everyone in the housing market has made the same plea to Washington: Send money — lots of it — that would keep renters in their homes and landlords afloat. (Melissa Golden/The New York Times) ORG XMIT: XNYT58
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How do Minnesota pros prepare for a game? Collier, Faber, Gobert and others showed us.

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