Via WJON News: State tourism officials say a record 80.2 million people visited Minnesota last year and spent a record $14.1 billion.
Nick Halter at Axios reports Minnesota restaurants are grappling with how to adapt to a new state law that will ban them from adding fees to customers’ checks.
Charles Curtis at USA Today reports NFL Hall of Famer Randy Moss’ son Thaddeus is refuting social media claims that the former Viking has liver cancer: “My father will address the world when he is ready to.”
Brooks Johnson at the Star Tribune is reporting the paper’s top editor, Suki Dardarian, is retiring in February after more than a decade at the news organization and 43 years in journalism.
Kristi Miller at the Pioneer Press shares Ramsey County’s announcement that three Winter Warming Spaces will open this week for people to seek shelter from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. every night. The shelters will continue to operate through March 31.
Via the Associated Press: A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning and left his wife and three children and was believed to have been in Eastern Europe willingly returned to the U.S. after roughly four months and is in custody, a sheriff said Wednesday.
Ross Raihala at the Pioneer Press reports the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra has announced a balanced budget for the fiscal year ending June 30 at its annual meeting of members on Tuesday. It marks the orchestra’s 29th balanced budget out of the past 31 years.
From the NBA: The Minnesota Timberwolves, KARE 11 and FanDuel Sports Network are partnering to simulcast five home games this season giving fans a variety of options to watch Timberwolves basketball.
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