Section football brackets were released across all classes Thursday. Here are the East Metro section seedings with matchups and dates, with St. Thomas Academy, Mahtomedi and Hill-Murray all nabbing No. 1 seeds in their respective sections.

Section quarterfinals are slated for Tuesday.

The brackets will be updated here weekly.

Every section bracket can be found on the MSHSL website.

Class 5A, Section 3

Quarterfinals on Tuesday, Oct. 21

No. 4 Apple Valley vs. No. 5 Burnsville

Semifinals on Saturday, Oct. 25

No. 1 St. Thomas Academy vs. Apple Valley/Burnsville

No. 2 Hastings vs. No. 3 Two Rivers

Final on Friday, Oct. 31

Semifinal winners

Class 5A, Section 4

Quarterfinals on Tuesday, Oct. 21

No. 4 Highland Park vs. No. 5 Central

No. 3 Tartan vs. No. 6 Harding/Humboldt

Semifinals on Saturday, Oct. 25

No. 1 Mahtomedi vs. Highland Park/Central

No. 2 Cretin-Derham Hall vs. Tartan/Harding

Final on Friday, Oct. 31

Semifinal winners

Class 4A, Section 3

Quarterfinals on Tuesday, Oct. 21

No. 4 Simley vs. No. 5 Johnson

No. 3 North St. Paul vs. No. 6 Chisago Lakes

Semifinals on Saturday, Oct. 25

No. 1 Hill-Murray vs. Simley/Johnson

No. 2 South St. Paul vs. North St. Paul/Chisago Lakes

Final on Friday, Oct. 31

Semifinal winners

Class 3A, Section 4

Quarterfinals on Tuesday, Oct. 21

No. 4 Breck vs. No. 5 Brooklyn Center

No. 3 Concordia Academy vs. No. 6 Minneapolis Camden

No. 2 St. Croix Lutheran vs. No. 7 St. Agnes

Semifinals on Saturday, Oct. 25

No. 1 Minneapolis North vs. Breck/Brooklyn Center

St. Croix Lutheran/St. Agnes vs. Concordia Academy/Minneapolis Camden

Final on Friday, Oct. 31

Semifinal winners

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday warned Hamas “we will have no choice but to go in and kill them” if internal bloodshed persists in Gaza.

The grim warning from Trump came after he previously downplayed the internal violence in the territory since a ceasefire went into effect last week.

Trump said Tuesday that Hamas had taken out “a couple of gangs that were very bad” and had killed a number of gang members. “That didn’t bother me much, to be honest with you,” he said.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has permanently blocked the Trump administration from withholding nearly $34 million in funding earmarked to protect New York’s transit system from terrorist attacks.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said in a ruling Thursday that the Republican administration’s decision, based on the Big Apple’s “sanctuary city” protections for immigrants in the United States illegally, was “arbitrary, capricious, and a blatant violation of the law.”

The post-9/11 Transit Security Grant Program, Kaplan noted in granting a permanent injunction, was created with instructions that money be allocated solely on the basis of terrorism risk. The judge had previously issued an order temporarily freezing the move.

The state sued Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency after they said last month that they were eliminating funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city’s transit system.

A FEMA official disclosed in a court filing that the transit authority “did not receive funding because the applicant is based in New York City, a designated Sanctuary Jurisdiction city.”

The MTA said its allocation, the largest of any transit agency, pays for targeted counterterrorism patrols, security equipment, infrastructure enhancements, cybersecurity technology and weapons detection technologies.

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In a statement, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James praised Kaplan’s ruling as “a victory for every New Yorker who rides our subways, buses, and commuter rails.”

“A court has once again affirmed that this administration cannot punish New York by arbitrarily wiping out critical security resources and defunding law enforcement that keeps riders safe,” Hochul and James, both Democrats, said.

OSLO, Norway (AP) — A former security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Norway was convicted of espionage Wednesday after a court in Oslo found that he spied for Russia and Iran.

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The 28-year-old Norwegian man, whose name has not been made public, was sentenced to three years and seven months behind bars. He had acknowledged the indictment’s facts but denied any criminal guilt.

Prosecutors said he handed over details about the embassy’s diplomats, its floor plans and security routines, among other things, Norwegian state broadcaster NRK reported. The broadcaster reported that American ties to Israel and the war in Gaza prompted the man to contact Russia and Iran.

The man’s defense attorneys, in a statement Thursday, said the verdict raises questions about what is considered espionage under Norwegian law.

“He lied about having security clearance to agents from other countries and exaggerated his own role,” attorney Inger Zadig of Elden Law Firm said in the statement. “He had roughly the same level of access as a janitor at the embassy. The information he shared was worthless and neither separately nor collectively capable of harming individuals or the security interests of any state.”

The defendant was found guilty of five espionage-related charges and acquitted of gross corruption. His defense attorneys are weighing whether to appeal the verdict, while prosecutor Carl Fredrik Fari said his team is considering appealing the sentence because the state had asked for more than six years in prison.

At the time of his arrest last November, the man had been studying for a bachelor’s degree in security and preparedness at Norway’s Arctic University, UiT.

It is a second such case at UiT in recent years, according to NRK.

One of the people the West swapped with Russia in a major prisoner exchange last year was a UiT guest researcher who claimed to be a Brazilian named José Assis Giammaria, arrested on espionage allegations in 2022. The police revealed him to be a Russian national by the name of Mikhail Valeryevich Mikushin.

Norway has a 123-mile long border with Russia in the Arctic. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Norway has heavily restricted entry for Russian nationals.

Last year, the Norwegian government said it was considering a plan to build a fence along all or part of its border with Russia.