ARLINGTON, Texas  — Napheesa Collier had 28 points and 10 rebounds, Kayla McBride made six 3-pointers and scored 21 points, and the Minnesota Lynx beat the Dallas Wings 81-65 on Sunday to extend their season-opening winning streak to nine games.

The Lynx (9-0), who won a WNBA-record 13 consecutive games to open their season in 2016, are off to the fourth-best start in league history.

Collier made 10 of 19 from the field, 3 of 6 from 3-point range, and finished with four assists, four steals and three blocks.

McBride hit a deep 3-pointer about 2 1/2 minutes into the game to make it 5-2, and the Lynx led the rest of the way.

Arike Ogunbowale hit six 3-pointers and led Dallas (1-9) with 26 points and Maddy Siegrist scored 15.

Dallas rookie Paige Bueckers (illness) missed her fourth consecutive game. The No. 1 overall selection in April’s draft missed the previous three games due the WNBA’s concussion protocol but was cleared earlier Sunday.

Siegrist made a layup with a second left in the third quarter to cap a 17-4 run that trimmed Dallas’ deficit to 57-56, but Collier opened the fourth quarter with a 3-pointer, followed with a mid-range jumper, and the Wings got no closer.

Natisha Hiedeman hit a 3 with 2:24 to play that pushed Minnesota’s lead to 77-62.

The Lynx hit 13 pointers, finished with 25 assists on 29 field goals, had 12 steals and committed just six turnovers.

The Wings have lost five games in a row.

The Lynx play the Storm in Seattle on Wednesday.

How about shouting a “hip, hooray” for the bottom of the Twins batting order?

Brooks Lee and Christian Vázquez, the Twins Nos. 8 and 9 hitters hit back-to-back home runs, Willi Castro, batting sixth, had three hits and Minnesota beat Toronto 6-3 Sunday to end a three-game slide.

Eight of Minnesota’s 12 hits came from its bottom four hitters. Through five innings, all seven Twins hits and five runs came from that quartet.

“We’ve got good guys at the bottom of the lineup, too, with Ty (France), me and Vazky right now, for that game. I think we all did it today, but those are special days,” Lee said.

France had two hits to extend his career-high by reaching base in 20 straight games. The last Twin to do that was Edouard Julien, who reached in 23 straight games from Sept. 6, 2023-March 30, 2024.

Carlos Correa, the team’s cleanup hitter, had hits in the sixth and eighth innings, as did Royce Lewis, who came on as a pinch-hitter in the fifth. Byron Buxton earned three of the team’s eight walks, which matched a season high for the team.

“Our guys, up and down the lineup, just dominated the strike zone today and just refused to expand and swing at very many pitches at all out of the zone,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “Their guys have really good stuff, and they get ahead, and then they throw tons of pitches that look really good. But they’re not strikes. And they just continue to throw them. And a lot of the times it’s tough, and you swing at them.”

“… But our guys were very prepared and very focused and pretty relentless in the way we were looking for a certain pitch in a certain spot, and that’s all we offered at. I was really proud of that. I thought that was fantastic.”

Down 3-2 in the fourth, Lee lofted — at a 40-degree launch angle — a home run just inside the right-field foul pole. Six pitches later, on a full count, Vázquez hammered a home run to the first row of the second deck just inside the left-field foul pole.

It’s the second time this season for back-to-back Twins’ round-trippers. DaShawn Keirsey Jr. and Byron Buxton did it May 15 at Baltimore.

“We had a lot of baserunners, because of the types of at-bats we talked about,” Baldelli said. “But that really nice turning point in the game were the two homers. Sometimes you just need some guys to come up big and have a big at-bat. I don’t think those guys are going up there aiming for pull-side homers. I think they just reacted and got the barrel to pitches.”

The Twins sent eight batters to the plate in the fifth, scoring just two runs and leaving the bases loaded. Minnesota also had the bases loaded with one out in the sixth, but Myles Straw threw out Correa at the plate trying to score on a medium-depth fly ball.

Minnesota was 3 for 12 with runners in scoring position and left 13 men on base.

Joe Ryan (7-2) needed 92 pitches to get through five innings; however, the final two were 1-2-3 affairs. The latter ended with a fine defensive play by Correa who charged in and scooped the ball directly from his glove to second baseman Kody Clemens at second base to begin a double play.

A fifth-inning walk was Toronto’s lone baserunner in a six-inning span.

Brock Stewart, Cole Sands and Griffin Jax each tossed an easy inning before Jhoan Duran earned his 10th save with a scoreless ninth.

Minnesota Twins’ Royce Lewis (23) gestures after hitting a single during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Sunday, June 8, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Minnesota Twins’ Carlos Correa (4) is tagged out by Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk (30) to end the bottom of the sixth inning of a baseball game Sunday, June 8, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. #27 of the Toronto Blue Jays slides safely into third base in the third inning against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field on June 8, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Ellen Schmidt/Getty Images)

Construction will begin this summer on a temporary solution to PFAS chemicals found in parts of Stillwater’s water supply.

Market and Johnson Inc., of Eau Claire, Wis., submitted the lowest bid to construct a temporary facility to treat water from one of Stillwater’s wells to meet the latest standards for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “forever chemicals” because they resist breaking down in the environment.

Five bids were received and opened, city officials said. Market and Johnson, which has a local office in Stillwater, submitted a bid of $2,517,000, which beat the engineer’s estimate of $2,678,000, city officials said. The Stillwater City Council voted June 3 to accept the bid.

The facility, which will be located adjacent to Well No. 10 near Benson Park, is expected to be in operation until a permanent solution is found. The facility will use granulated activated carbon to treat the water.

The city secured a $3 million grant from the Public Facilities Authority for construction of the temporary water treatment facility, said City Administrator Joe Kohlmann. Construction will begin this summer, and the facility should be operational by late 2025 or early 2026, he said.

PFAS chemicals were found to have contaminated drinking water supplies in parts of the eastern Twin Cities, including in Stillwater’s groundwater supply. 3M and other companies manufactured the substances for use in products ranging from nonstick cookware to firefighting foam, but now they have made their way into water and food supplies across the country and have been linked to cancers and other health issues.

The Trump administration recently announced plans to relax limits on certain “forever chemicals.” But for two commonly found types, PFOA and PFOS, the limits put in place by the Biden administration will remain in place. Utilities will have two more years — until 2031 — to meet them.

Two wells in Stillwater – Well No. 6 and Well No. 10 – were found to contain PFAS at levels above health-based guidance values for drinking water. An additional well, Well No. 9, contains PFAS at levels just below these standards.

All three wells are currently inactive and are not providing water for the community, Kohlmann said. The temporary treatment facility at Well No. 10 will ensure the well can safely be put back into service to meet drinking-water standards, he said.

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A fire inspector with the city of St. Paul’s Department of Safety and Inspections has been charged with three felonies after authorities say he allegedly picked up a girl who had missed her bus, brought her to his apartment and tried to sexually assault her and pay her for sex.

James Allen Thomas, 73, of Woodbury, was charged with one count of kidnapping, one count of second-degree attempted criminal sexual conduct with someone under 14, and one count of soliciting a child to engage in sexual conduct, according to the criminal complaint.

The city confirmed that Thomas is employed as a DSI Fire Safety Inspector II.

The complaint gave the following details about the charges:

At about 10:12 a.m. on May 21, The 13-year-old said that after she missed her bus she began to walk to school. As she walked, she decided to go into a medical clinic nearby to ask for help because she was getting cold and wet from the rain. As she neared the clinic’s entrance on Phalen Boulevard, a man in a gray SUV asked if she needed help.

Shivering, she said yes and then used her school iPad to communicate to the man that she needed a ride to middle school. When she got into his vehicle, she noticed the man was wearing a uniform with a patch and his name embroidered on the shirt. He also had a radio “like a police officer,” the complaint said. She assumed he was a security officer.

Rather than drive toward the school, he drove her to an apartment building, brought her into an apartment and locked the door behind them. He motioned for her to go into the bedroom. She did and sat on the bed.

When he tried to touch her and then offered her $50, she said no. He then grabbed her iPad and asked if her location was on. She said it did and that she needed to get to school. They left immediately after that.

He brought her back to his car and asked questions such as if she had ever had sex and what her home address was. The girl remembered her mother had warned her to never give out her address so the girl gave her school address. Eventually, he brought her to the school. As soon as she got out of the car, she began to cry.

Thomas got out of the car when he saw a staff member hugging the girl and said he was a “sergeant with the St. Paul Fire Department” who had picked the girl up and brought her to school.

Shortly after, the girl was taken to the Midwest Children’s Resource Center for a medical evaluation.

The girl identified Thomas in a photo line up and then was able to identify his apartment building and apartment when authorities took her to the area. Security camera footage from the medical clinic showed the girl getting into Thomas’ vehicle.

Thomas was arrested on June 5, 2025. He waived his legal rights and admitted giving the girl a ride to school that day. When he was told that his vehicle was “equipped with a device that automatically tracks exactly where the vehicle goes and how it’s being driven,” he then added that he had to stop by his apartment to lock it because it had been broken into recently. He said the girl remained in the car at the time.

He denied touching the girl other than possibly grazing her arm when he looked at her iPad. He also added that the girl “looked about 10 years old and seemed “scared (expletive)” while she was with him.

Thomas is scheduled to have his first court appearance at 9 a.m. Monday.

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