The Gophers football program has pulled off another big recruiting win inside Minnesota, landing the top in-state prospect in three straight recruiting classes.

Roman Voss, an athlete from Jackson County Central, placed Minnesota and the Alabama Crimson Tide in his final two a weeks ago and picked the Gophers on Monday.

Voss, a four-star recruit and a top 15 athlete in the nation in the 2026 class, becomes the top-rated recruit in the U’s class for next year. After visiting Dinkytown on May 30-June 1, the 6-foot-4, 225-pounder went on an official visit to Tuscaloosa, Ala., last weekend.

“All Glory to God. Home,” Voss wrote on X.

Minnesota netted the previous two top-ranked in-state players in Robbinsdale Cooper linebacker Emmanuel Karmo (2025) and Esko safety Koi Perich (2024). The top player in 2023 — Cooper defensive end Jaxon Howard initially went to Louisiana State for his freshman year before transferring to the U in 2024.

Voss was a big priority for the Gophers, with the entire offensive coaching staff going to his home in early January. It appeared Voss would  be a hot commodity within the Big Ten, with Iowa receiving early attention, but the stiffest competition ended up being Alabama, with head coach Kaleb DeBoer being from nearby South Dakota and coaching at Sioux Falls early in his career.

Voss has played quarterback and safety at the Class 2A school, but projects to a tight end in college. He has endured season-ending injuries in the state tournament the previous two years and will need to stay healthy to live up to the hype.

Longtime Jackson County Central head coach Tom Schuller told the Pioneer Press he believes Voss is the best player he has ever coached and can be “an NFL-caliber tight end.”

The U’s 2026 class has already received pledges from the No. 2 and 3 recruits in Minnesota — Forest Lake defensive lineman Howie Johnson and Cold Spring offensive lineman Andrew Trout.

— On Sunday, the Gophers gained a commitment from Trason Richardson, a three-star safety from Rosharon, Texas, for its 2026 class. The 6-foot, 180-pound product had more than a dozen offers but none from the Power Four conferences.

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By JACK DURA

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Two tornadoes that killed six people in North Dakota and New York each had wind speeds topping 100 mph and caused brief but widespread damage as they tore through largely rural areas, officials said.

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Three people, all in their 70s and 80s, died in rural Enderlin, North Dakota, during a storm that struck late Friday and early Saturday, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office said. Three others, including twin 6-year-old sisters, died Sunday in a storm that struck the hamlet of Clark Mills in central New York, the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office said.

The National Weather Service gave preliminary ratings of EF-2 to EF-3 or potentially higher for three tornadoes that struck eastern North Dakota — meaning wind speeds of 111 to 135 mph and 136 to 165 mph, respectively, with varying severity of damage. EF-3 and stronger ranges are not usual for the Northern Plains, National Weather Service Meteorologist Jacob Spender said.

“As we go higher on the scale, it’s not as common but they can still happen,” he said.

The tornadoes uprooted numerous trees, tossed train cars and damaged houses, Spender said.

The night included supercells in southeastern North Dakota and a derecho — a powerful windstorm — that tore across the state to the east.

The wind lashed little Page, North Dakota, population 250, for over an hour, ravaging trees, roofs and structures, Mayor Jim Heidorn said. Half the town’s trees are gone, he said. Cleanup might stretch throughout the summer.

Kylie Weber was hunkering down with her family and some friends at her family’s rural home near Oriska when the storm sucked her bedroom window out of the wall, blew the room’s door off its hinges and ripped off part of the roof, she said. Their farm also lost a grain bin, among other damage.

Thousands of people were still without power Monday.

Having numerous ways to be alerted to severe weather is crucial, such as by smartphone and radio, Spender said. Many people vacation at lakes in remote areas in summer, and nighttime storms can be especially dangerous because people can’t see what’s coming, he said.

The Weather Service confirmed that a tornado packing 105 mph winds touched down in upstate New York before dawn Sunday during severe thunderstorms. The tornado was blamed for the deaths of three people.

The EF-1 tornado was on the ground for more than 2 miles and was about 300 yards wide at its peak as it spun from Clark Mills to North Clinton in Oneida County, west of Utica, the Weather Service said.

Casey Fiest uses an electric chainsaw to cut limbs off of a broken tree laying in a yard from the previous night’s severe thunderstorms in Bismarck, N.D., on Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Tanner Ecker /The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

Trees fell on three homes, killing twin 6-year-old girls in one and a person in another, officials and the Weather Service said. The twister also destroyed a historic grist mill along Oriskany Creek. The Weather Service said the thunderstorms also produced high winds that caused other scattered damage.

Associated Press reporter Dave Collins contributed from Hartford, Connecticut.

Maroon 5 will play their first local show since 2018 when they headline St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center on Oct. 29.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. TikTok star Claire Rosinkranz opens.

Maroon 5 emerged in the early ’00s with a string of radio hits including “This Love,” “She Will Be Loved” and “Sunday Morning.” The band’s 2002 debut album, “Songs About Jane,” sold more than 5 million copies. Following up that success proved to be difficult, though, with the band making what looked like their final trip to the Top 10 with the 2007 single “Makes Me Wonder.”

But after bandleader Adam Levine joined the then-new competitive reality TV show “The Voice” as a coach in 2011, Maroon 5 returned to the charts for a string of smashes including “Moves Like Jagger,” “Payphone,” “One More Night,” “Daylight,” “Maps,” “Sugar,” “Don’t Wanna Know” and “What Lovers Do.”

Levine left “The Voice” in 2019 after 16 seasons. Two years later, Maroon 5 released their seventh album “Jordi,” which earned mixed reviews and only generated a single Top 10 hit in “Memories.” Earlier this year, Levine returned as a coach on “The Voice” for a single season.

Maroon 5’s eighth album “Love Is Like” is due out Aug. 15. The first single “Priceless” flopped in the States, but did hit the Top 10 in Mexico, Thailand, New Zealand and several other countries. The follow-up, “All Night,” will be released Friday.

The band was scheduled to play the X in August 2022, but ended up canceling that show along with nearly half of their 2022 dates due to what they called “a combination of unexpected issues and exponentially increased costs.”

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to restart swift removals of migrants to countries other than their homelands, lifting for now a court order requiring they get a chance to challenge the deportations.

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The high court majority did not detail its reasoning in the brief order, as is typical on its emergency docket. All three liberal justices dissented from the order.

It came after immigration officials put eight people on a plane to South Sudan in May. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Boston found that violated his court order giving people a chance to argue they could be in danger of torture if sent away from their home countries.

The migrants from countries including Myanmar, Vietnam and Cuba had been convicted of serious crimes in the U.S. and immigration officials have said that they were unable to return them quickly to their home countries.

After Murphy stepped in, authorities landed the plane at a U.S. naval base in Djibouti, where the migrants were housed in a converted shipping container and the officers guarding them faced rough conditions even as immigration attorneys waited for word from their clients.

The case comes amid a sweeping immigration crackdown by Republican President Donald Trump’s administration, which has pledged to deport millions of people who are living in the United States illegally.

Since some countries do not accept U.S. deportations, the administration has reached agreements with other countries, including Panama and Costa Rica, to house them. South Sudan, meanwhile, has endured repeated waves of violence since gaining independence in 2011.

Murphy’s order doesn’t prohibit deportations to third countries. But it says migrants must have a real chance to argue they could be in serious danger of torture if sent to another country.

In a scathing 19-page dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the court’s action exposes “thousands to the risk of torture or death.”

“The government has made clear in word and deed that it feels itself unconstrained by law, free to deport anyone anywhere without notice or an opportunity to be heard,” she wrote in the dissent joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The justices have confronted a similar issue in Trump’s effort to send Venezuelans accused of being gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador with little chance to challenge the deportations in court.

In that case, the court said migrants must get a “reasonable time” to file a court challenge before being removed, and the majority blocked the administration from resuming the deportations while lower courts worked out exactly how long they should get.

The conservative-majority court has sided with Trump in other immigration cases, however, clearing the way for his administration to end temporary legal protections affecting a total of nearly a million immigrants.

The third-country deportation case has been one of several legal flashpoints as the administration rails against judges whose rulings have slowed the president’s policies.

Another order from Murphy, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, resulted in the Trump administration returning a gay Guatemalan man who had been wrongly deported to Mexico, where he says he had been raped and extorted. The man, identified in court papers as O.C.G, was the first person known to have been returned to U.S. custody after deportation since the start of Trump’s second term.