Emily Baude

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Families in St. Paul are scrambling as the city prepares for a fifth child care center to close at the end of the summer. These centers have been open for decades and have served more than 100 families combined. “All of a sudden, I had 15 calls in an hour to set up interviews,” said Celeste Finn, the executive director at Big Wonder Child Care.

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One park in the Twin Cities combines nature and art. Caponi Art Park in Eagan is set on 60 acres of rolling wooded hills. “The idea behind the park itself is that it’s a sixty-acre sculpture and when people get here, they’re walking into a work of art,” park co-founder Cheryl Caponi said. The park was founded by Cheryl Caponi and her late husband, Tony Caponi. Born in Italy, Tony moved to Minnesota for school and became an art professor at Macalester College.

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The diver who cliff jumped into the Genoa Pit in Gilbert, Minn., has been found dead, according to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office. As initially reported by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS sister station, WDIO, law enforcement received the call around 4:18 p.m. from a witness who reported seeing his friend jump into the water and surface, but then disappear around a corner.

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Right on Main Street in downtown Anoka, you’ll find the Dollar General Store — one of more than 200 in Minnesota. And — likely Larry Rudnick, now on a fixed income, who comes here at least a couple of times a week. “I like the prices,” he says. “I think the economy is going out of control right now, I mean the prices going up the way they are.”Rudnick was among the shoppers here Thursday, amazed and perhaps impressed by the Tennessee-based retailer’s first-quarter $10 billion sales record.

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President Donald Trump’s travel ban on 12 countries is set to go into effect next Monday, affecting the largest Somali population in the country, which resettled in Minnesota. The list of banned countries is: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. There will also be heightened restrictions on visitors from seven other countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.