Quick Hits

• Plan around I-394 this weekend. MnDOT closes the ramp from eastbound I-394 to I-94 in Minneapolis starting Friday night for bridge repairs — the main downtown connection for Golden Valley drivers.
• Shoreline Plaza fallout deepens. Newly unsealed search warrants detail the scale of gunfire in the mass shooting, while a housing-industry leader warns current safety laws fall short.
• Twins fall, Vikings next. Cleveland rallied in the ninth to beat the Twins 5-2 Friday night; the Vikings open the season Sunday vs. Green Bay with quarterback Kyler Murray leading the way.
• Cop killer denied parole again. Convicted St. Paul cop killer Ronald Reed was denied parole for the fourth time, with another hearing set for 18 months out.
• Tornado out west. A tornado was spotted in Stevens County around 8 p.m. Friday — well west of the Twin Cities metro.

Golden Valley & West Metro

No Golden Valley-specific headlines made today's feed, but the biggest practical story for west-metro readers runs right through town: KSTP reports MnDOT will close the ramp from eastbound I-394 to I-94 in Minneapolis starting Friday night for bridge repairs, with the closure in effect through the weekend. Since I-394 is Golden Valley's primary route downtown, anyone headed to the Twins game, Nicollet Mall or elsewhere in the city this weekend should budget extra time and check MnDOT detours before leaving the house.

Minneapolis

• Shoreline Plaza shooting aftermath: Newly unsealed search warrants show investigators traced extensive gunfire through Shoreline Plaza following the mass shooting, per a BCA evidence log reviewed by KSTP. Separately, Minnesota housing leaders said the industry is grieving and urgently seeking changes after the shooting, with one leader warning that current safety laws fall short.
• Police chief search: Mayor Jacob Frey says the city is moving forward with a national search for its next chief of police, with dozens of applicants already in the pool.
• Fraud suspect back in custody: Kaamil Omar Sallah, 26, was arrested at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after prosecutors say he fled to Amsterdam in November; KARE 11 reports he voluntarily returned to Minnesota.
• Grocery clerk killing verdict: A Hennepin County court found Schulz not guilty due to mental illness in the killing of a Minneapolis grocery clerk; he will be indefinitely committed at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter.
• 9/11 reflections: A day after the 25th anniversary, KARE 11 talks with a Minneapolis whistleblower about the FBI's pre-9/11 failures — in the month before the attacks, Minneapolis FBI agents were actively trying to sound the alarm on a potential terror plot involving a jet.
• Dinner du Nord: About 2,100 people gathered on Nicollet Mall Thursday evening for what organizers call America's longest dinner.
• North Loop: A developer has scrapped plans for a data center at the former Star Tribune printing plant; initial plans for the 13-acre site would have included the data center plus potential housing and retail.

St. Paul

• Ronald Reed denied parole for the fourth time. Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell cast the deciding vote, and another hearing is set for 18 months from now.
• Officers cleared in I-94 ramp shooting: The Ramsey County Attorney's Office announced no criminal charges against two St. Paul police officers who shot an armed suspected car thief on an I-94 ramp over the winter.
• Teaching 9/11 to kids who weren't born yet: KSTP examines the challenge facing social studies teachers a quarter-century after the attacks. "We're entering a time where 9/11 is becoming like Pearl Harbor," said veteran teacher Eric Erickson. Minnpost adds a first-person essay from a writer who watched the towers fall from a Brooklyn rooftop.

Local Sports

• Twins 2, Guardians 5: Cleveland's Ángel Martínez hit a two-run homer, and his ninth-inning double keyed the game-winning rally Friday night in Minneapolis. KSTP also posted pregame clubhouse interviews with first baseman Royce Lewis and pitcher Joe Ryan, who made his return ahead of the series opener.
• Vikings: Kyler Murray sounded like a quarterback ready to embrace the expectations and responsibility that come with the job as Sunday's season opener against the Packers approaches.

Weather

The National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning for Stevens County — out in western Minnesota — until 8:45 p.m. Friday after a tornado was spotted around 8 p.m., with southern parts of the county urged to take cover. No similar warnings were reported for the Twin Cities metro.

Minnesota Statewide

• Skilled trades pipeline: A first-of-its-kind program is bringing Minnesota high school students closer to careers in the skilled trades, in hopes of closing the industry's worker gap, KSTP reports.
• From Minnpost's D.C. Memo: President Donald Trump's plan to help Republicans keep control of the U.S. House and Senate in the midterm election is to promise money to potential voters.
• Sign of the season: The Fall Parade of Homes is back for autumn tours — a good excuse to poke around what's new in west-metro homebuilding.