A Ramsey County prosecutor will receive a Carnegie Medal for saving a man who was near the edge of the top of a building, the Carnegie Hero Fund announced Monday.

In February 2023, Hao Nguyen ran across a St. Paul street after spotting the man and then slowly approached him.

Hao Nguyen (Courtesy of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission)

Nguyen, the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office Trial Division director, talked to the man in Vietnamese. The man told Nguyen he was doing math calculations, but the way he said it didn’t feel right to Nguyen. He said at the time that he surmised the man’s calculations were about his life.

Nguyen had moved the man about 10 feet from the edge, but the man dove toward it and Nguyen went after him.

He said he worried they’d both slip and fall over the edge, so he put the man in a bear hug and got him to the ground until law enforcement arrived. The man was taken by ambulance for a mental health evaluation.

The man, 31-year-old Hai Nguyen, later died by suicide in western Wisconsin.

The Carnegie Hero Fund announced Monday it is honoring 18 people who, “in acts of extraordinary heroism, risked serious injury or death to save others.” They select recipients quarterly to receive the Carnegie Medal, a special honor for civilian heroism.

Another Minnesotan selected in this round is Dalton Grose, of Waterville. He was working on a boat when he saw a truck went over a retaining wall and began sinking in Fountain Lake in Albert Lea. Grose piloted the boat closer, jumped into the water fully clothed and used his feet as leverage against the truck to force the door open.

Grose cradled the 85-year-old driver, taking three bounding steps and submerging and resurfacing until he reached wadable water and got the driver to safety, according to the Carnegie Hero Fund.

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Some Gophers football fans chanted “Who hates Iowa?” before the season opener against North Carolina on Aug. 29, showing their attention is never far from their bitter rival.

By the time the Floyd of Rosedale game arrived three weeks later, the majority of fans wore maroon for the game against the Hawkeyes at Huntington Bank Stadium. But many of those same fans had left the building after Iowa scored 24 unanswered points in a 31-14 win.

Hawkeyes fans converged on the northwest corner of the stadium for when the visiting players lifted the bronzed pig trophy in that end zone. Then Iowa fans were seen in videos chanting “I-O-W-A!” as they exited Minnesota’s stadium.

Since 2011, the Gophers are 1-7 against Iowa in Minneapolis.

Two bad halves

The Gophers (2-2) had 14-7 halftime leads against both Iowa and North Carolina, but were outscored 36-3 combined in those second halves to suffer two startling defeats.

“I think we have had two bad halves of football in four games, in terms of performance,” head coach P.J. Fleck said Monday. “When you go back and look and evaluate yourself constantly and go back and reflect as a head football coach, my job is to be able to get our team to play their absolute best for 60 minutes. Haven’t been able to do that in two of the games, in my opinion. That 100 percent falls on me.”

Missed tackles galore

Defensive coordinator Corey Hetherman had the Gophers down for 22 missed tackles against North Carolina. Pro Football Focus had the U down for 13 missed tackles against Iowa.

“It became a tackling issue in the second half,” Fleck said. “We’d miss one tackle or we would hesitate and not shoot our gun. We wouldn’t shoot tackle and breakdown. You do that against that (running back Kaleb Johnson). You can coach that, but you’ve got to go apply it. We did it in the first half. We didn’t do it in the second half. It wasn’t like nobody was there. We had people where they needed to be. We just didn’t make the play.”

Veteran safety Darius Green, who is expected to be a leader in the back end, had the lowest run grade and two missed tackles versus Iowa, per PFF. He has been working his way back from an offseason injury and missed the first two games of the season.

With safety Aidan Gousby and cornerback Justin Walley both out injured, Green’s errors were more glaring Saturday.

Briefly

Against No. 12 Michigan, the Gophers will face a defending national champion for the 10th time on Saturday. The U is 0-9 in the previous matchups. Minnesota has lost four straight to the Wolverines with the Little Brown Jug on the line, including a 52-10 blowout in Minnesota last October. … The Gophers’ game against No. 13 USC will be at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 5 and will air on Big Ten Network, the conference announced Monday.

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By NADIA LATHAN, Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal jury in Texas on Monday cleared a group of former President Donald Trump supporters and found one driver liable in a civil trial over a so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus days before the 2020 election.

The two-week trial in a federal courthouse in Austin centered on whether the actions of the “Trump Train” participants amounted to political intimidation. Among those aboard the bus was former Democratic lawmaker Wendy Davis, who testified she feared for her life while a convoy of Trump supporters boxed in the bus along Interstate 35.

The jury awarded $10,000 to the bus driver.

No criminal charges were filed against the six Trump supporters who were sued by Davis and two others aboard the bus. Civil rights advocates hoped a guilty verdict would send a clear message about what constitutes political violence and intimidation.

On Oct. 20, 2020, a Biden-Harris campaign bus was traveling from San Antonio to Austin for an event when a group of cars and trucks waving Trump flags surrounded the bus.

Video that Davis recorded from the bus shows pickup trucks with large Trump flags slowing down to box in the bus as it tried to move away from the group of Trump supporters. One of the defendants hit a campaign volunteer’s car while the trucks occupied all lanes of traffic, forcing the bus and everyone around it to a 15 mph crawl.

It was the last day of early voting in Texas and the bus was scheduled to stop at San Marcos for an event at Texas State University.

The event was canceled after Davis and others on the bus — a campaign staffer and the driver — made repeated calls to 911 asking for a police escort through San Marcos and no help arrived.

Davis testified that she felt scared and anxious throughout the ordeal. “I feel like they were enjoying making us afraid,” she testified. “It’s traumatic for all of us to revisit that day.”

“Weird Al” Yankovic will hit the road in 2025 for his first major tour in six years, which includes a June 28 stop at Treasure Island Casino Amphitheater.

Tickets for the pop parodist are priced from $159 to $39 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster.

“Weird Al” Yankovic will play his familiar parody songs live for the first time in six years when he hits the road in 2025 for a tour that includes a June 28, 2025 stop at Treasure Island Casino Amphitheater in Welch, Minn. (Courtesy of Sam Jones)

Yankovic, 64, began playing the accordion at the age of seven and grew up listening to Elton John, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg and Frank Zappa. When he was 16, radio DJ and Minneapolis native Dr. Demento spoke at his high school and Yankovic gave him a cassette recording of a song he wrote about his family’s Plymouth Belvedere. Dr. Demento played it on his syndicated comedy show, which Yankovic credits as the launch of his musical career.

While studying architecture at California Polytechnic State University, Yankovic began writing parody songs starting with “My Bologna,” a riff on the Knack’s hit “My Sharona.” He continued to get played on Dr. Demento’s radio show and, in 1981, joined the DJ’s stage show on tour. The following year, he signed a deal with Scotti Brothers Records.

Yankovic’s self-titled debut album arrived in 1983 and featured the parody singles “Another One Rides the Bus,” “Ricky” and “I Love Rocky Road” alongside seven original songs. He broke to a wider audience with his follow-up, “ ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic in 3-D,” thanks to his hit Michael Jackson parody “Eat It.” MTV put the video into heavy rotation and aired a series of specials starring Yankovic.

While it seemed like Yankovic’s shelf life would be short, he continued releasing albums through 2014’s “Mandatory Fun,” his first to hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts. He has said that’s his final record, although he has since issued a series of singles. Yankovic has won five Grammy awards out of 17 nominations and stands as the biggest-selling comedy artist in history.

In 2018, Yankovic embarked on what he called the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour. On it, he scaled back his multimedia concerts to a more intimate series of theater shows with a set list filled largely with his original songs, not the parody numbers that made him famous. It turned out to be a hit with his fans, and he returned to the concept in 2022.

For his 2025 dates, Yankovic will return to his large-scale set list and stage, with a giant video wall, multiple costume changes and an eight-piece ensemble featuring his original band.

“We’ll be doing all the big crowd-pleasing parodies as well as some deep cuts for the hardcore fans — but with twice as many players on stage, everything is going to sound twice as good,” Yankovic said in a news release.

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