Today is Friday, Sept. 6, the 250th day of 2024. There are 116 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Sept. 6, 1997, a public funeral was held for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in London, six days after her death in a car crash in Paris.

Also on this date:

In 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL’-gawsh) at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died eight days later and was succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.)

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In 1949, Howard Unruh, a resident of Camden, New Jersey, shot and killed 13 of his neighbors. (Unruh, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was incarcerated for 60 years until his death in 2009.)

In 1972, the Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany, a day after the deadly hostage crisis that left eleven Israelis, five Arab abductors and a West German police officer dead.

In 1975, 18-year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum in the United States.

In 1995, Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig’s 56 year-old MLB record; Ripken’s streak would ultimately reach a still-record 2,632 games.

In 2006, President George W. Bush acknowledged for the first time that the CIA was running secret prisons overseas and said “tough” interrogation techniques had forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies.

In 2018, the Supreme Court of India decriminalized consensual sex between adults, legalizing homosexuality in the country.

In 2022, Liz Truss began her tenure as U.K. prime minister; she would resign just 49 days later.

Today’s Birthdays:

Comedian JoAnne Worley is 87.
Cartoonist Sergio Aragonés is 87.
Country singer-songwriter David Allan Coe is 85.
Rock singer-musician Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 81.
Comedian-actor Jane Curtin is 77.
Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy is 66.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is 62.
Television journalist Elizabeth Vargas is 62.
Country singer-songwriter Mark Chesnutt is 61.
Actor Rosie Perez is 60.
R&B singer Macy Gray is 57.
Actor Idris Elba is 52.
Actor Justina Machado is 52.
Actor Anika Noni Rose is 52.
Actor Naomie Harris is 48.
Rapper Foxy Brown is 46.
Actor/singer Deborah Joy Winans is 41.
Actor-comedian Lauren Lapkus is 39.
Actor Asher Angel is 22.

Anthony Prato didn’t start Thursday’s game at CHS Field for the St. Paul Saints. He helped St. Paul end the game as winners with an RBI single in the ninth inning.

Prato entered as a pinch runner for catcher Patrick Winkel after Winkel singled in the eighth. Prato’s first at-bat of the game was a two-out single to score Carson McCusker to win the game.

Prato had also produced a walk-off win on Aug. 21 against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Caleb Boushley started for the Saints and gave up two runs in four innings. Hobie Harris (4-6) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win.

Diego A. Castillo, Yunior Severino and McCusker each had two hits for the Saints. Severino drove in three runs.

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Concordia College has announced a gift to the school that it said will transform how business students receive their education.

The donation was revealed during a Thursday gathering of administrators, faculty and students at the liberal arts college in Moorhead.

Concordia President Colin Irvine announced the “transformative” milestone, a $20 million gift to the Offutt School of Business from an anonymous donor.

“This truly historic contribution will greatly enhance our capacity to attract, teach, to inspire and to equip the next generation of business leaders,” Irvine said.

Terry Brandt, vice president for advancement, said the gift — the largest gift ever given to the business school and one of the largest ever given to the college — is more than a financial contribution.

“It is a profound investment in the future of education at Concordia College. It will open doors, it will create opportunities and significantly enhance the experience and impact we offer our students,” Brandt said.

Irvine said the donation builds on other major steps made in the last year , including the opening of the Sanford Heimarck School of Health Professions.

Following that, a $10 million anonymous gift helped the school launch 22 new or reimagined academic programs, five new or expanded co-curricular programs, and infrastructure investments, including a new outdoor track, new turf and lights for the football field, he said.

Those investments have helped prompt a boost in enrollment, Irvine said, with more than 600 new students registered this fall, marking the school’s largest class since 2018.

Susan Larson, Concordia provost and dean, said the $20 million gift will lay the groundwork for expanding graduate program offerings, including a master of business administration degree and graduate certificates in management and business analytics.

At the undergraduate level, Concordia will expand programs that integrate real-world experiences with rigorous academic learning, she said.

“We have had exciting conversations in the past year on areas around econometrics, business and sustainability, and sports and arts management,” Larson said.

The gift will also bring upgrades in classroom technology, she said, and will prioritize scholarships for lower-income students.

Concordia broke ground in June 2011 on the Offutt School of Business, named after former chairman of the Concordia Board of Regents Ron Offutt, who contributed the lead gift toward the $50 million fundraising campaign.

The business school opened its doors in January 2013.

Chris Mason, dean of the Offutt School of Business, said since then, the school has graduated more than 2,000 students.

“This generous donation ensures that our future students will continue this legacy armed with an education that not only meets the demands of today but anticipates the challenges of tomorrow,” Mason said.

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A school bus driver was arrested Wednesday morning for allegedly driving while impaired in northeastern Minnesota.

According to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, 17 South Range students were on board the impaired driver’s bus when he was pulled over near Saginaw.

In a news release, the sheriff’s office said a “concerned citizen” called just after midnight Wednesday to report an off-duty St. Louis County School District bus driver was consuming alcohol. The citizen was concerned “he was highly intoxicated and would not be sober by morning when he would likely begin his route.”

Deputies contacted the driver at his home at 6 a.m. Wednesday and the driver assured them he would not work later. The sheriff’s office also informed the school district.

An hour later, the school district told deputies that the driver was, in fact, on his route. Deputies pulled him over “without incident” on Independence Road just north of Seville Road in Saginaw, according to the news release.

The driver was arrested on pending charges of second-degree DWI and operating a school bus with evidence of alcohol present in the person’s body, the sheriff’s office said.

The sheriff’s office said all 17 children on board were students at South Ridge School near Alborn and were “uninjured and doing well.” Their parents were notified, and school district staff arrived to “take custody” of the bus and children.

While the sheriff’s office said official blood test results “will not be available for quite some time,” a preliminary breath test recorded the driver had a blood alcohol content of 0.16 — twice the legal limit to drive a typical motor vehicle. However, Minnesota law forbids school bus drivers from having any amount of alcohol in their system while operating a school bus.

On Wednesday, the driver remained in the St. Louis County Jail.

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