KTOE Noon News 6-25-25

Top Stories for Noon 6-25-25: 

• Faribault-Based SaveAFox Founder Dies of Suicide After Online Bullying

• Students who depend on free breakfast and lunch in Minnesota schools now have the option to get free nutritious meals from the State Department of Education (MDE). At-Risk Coordinator Jordyn Crane says most sponsors operating the Sun Meals Program typically serve up to two meals, or one meal and one snack, daily. The meals consist of anything from a sack lunch to a hot meal, and the program works to incorporate local food. Crane says Minnesotans can find one of the eight hundred meal sites closest to them by downloading the Free Meals for Kids app, visiting the Summer Food Service Program Site Map online, or calling the 2-1-1 Hotline.
• The founder of a St. Cloud-based non-profit must pay a small fine and serve a stayed sentence of ninety days in jail for an illegal gun sale. Thirty-eight-year-old Lenora Hunt, founder of Too Much Talent, a youth organization, pleaded guilty to a gross misdemeanor charge for selling a handgun to a suspected drug dealer in July 2024 in Stearns County. The dealer, Devounteono Tyson, was being investigated by the Central Minnesota Violent Offender Task Force for large fentanyl sales in the state. While surveilling Tyson, officers saw him walk out of Too Much Talent with a gun, which Tyson confirmed he got from Hunt. Court records show in a phone call between the two, Hunt discussed becoming mayor and helping Tyson and others with criminal cases when she won. She ran for St. Cloud City Council in 2020 and 2024, and resigned from her volunteer position on the St. Cloud Planning Commission after Mayo Dave Kleis asked her to.
• More tributes to fallen Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband in the U.S. House. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said on the floor Tuesday, there is absolutely no place in our communities for this kind of cruelty, and we “must settle our differences with civility and grace.” She continues, saying, “We owe this promise to Melissa, Mark, and the Hoffmans who also suffered at the hands of this violence, and our future generations.”

• MnDOT seeks applicants for Minnesota Highway Freight Program funding

• Employer Registration Now Open for Fall Career & Internship Expo at Minnesota State Mankato