KTOE Noon News 9-5-25
Top Stories for Noon 9-5-25:
- Students from several Twin Cities schools plan to stage walkouts today with a focus on school safety. Organizers say their action is motivated by the recent mass shooting at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis last week. Thirty schools reportedly will take part in the walkout. Some of them plan to march to the State Capitol. Demonstrators are protesting gun violence and demanding changes at both the state and federal levels.
- A Minnesota man is now enjoying his freedom after serving 27 years for a murder he didn’t commit. Bryan Hooper was sentenced to life in prison in 1998 for the murder of a 77-year-old woman who was found dead in the closet of her Minneapolis apartment. In July, the star witness who helped convict Hooper recanted her testimony and confessed that she was the one responsible for the woman’s death. On Thursday morning, Hooper, who is now 54 years old, was released from the Stillwater Correctional Facility in Minnesota to be with his son and daughter.
- Following his Senate testimony, Democratic Representative Angie Craig is calling for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s resignation, citing his disregard for science and threats to public health. Craig criticized Kennedy’s firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez and his replacement of all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel with individuals holding anti-science views. She also condemned Kennedy’s response to the recent Annunciation Catholic Church shooting in Minneapolis, calling his comments about psychiatric medications “baseless, cruel, and beneath your office.”
- Today(1 PM), a coalition of faith leaders and advocates will gather at the State Capitol to call for an immediate legislative special session to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. The event, in partnership with Moms Demand Action, follows the tragic mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School last week. This gathering is meant to be a moment of moral clarity, calling on lawmakers to align their actions with the shared value of protecting the innocent.
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Minnesota State Mankato’s 2025-2026 Good Thunder Reading Series Opens Sept. 11
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Children’s Museum Hosting Great Butterfly Tag-Along Saturday
