The Twin Cities Girls on the Run 5k race is this Sunday at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. The race has 1,300 participants from 70 metro area schools, according to organizers.

The event is a non-timed, non-competitive race that starts at 9:30 a.m. Before the race, there will be free drinks from Caribou Coffee.

To register as a runner, those interested must pay a $40 fee (or what they can afford), according to a press release.

According to Kathleen Canon, the executive director of Girls Run on the Run, each girl will be paired up with a buddy, such as a parent or guardian over 18 years old.

Laura Schleede, the coach for Girls on the Run, said that for eight weeks, the girls train for the 5K race and learn about important social skills.

“So we’re doing a lot of training every practice where the girls are going at a happy pace and then they’re also incorporating those skills,” Schleede said. Girls on the Run is a youth program for 3rd- to 8th-graders that helps develop confidence and different social skills needed for adulthood.

Canon said girls face unique pressures about their bodies and how they are supposed to look.

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“We know that girls, as they grow older, experience a really unique mix of pressures from society about how they look, how they feel, the way they move their body, what is and is not acceptable,” Canon said.

Schleede, whose daughter finished the race before, said the event always gives her and the girls a sense of pride after they cross the finish line.

Schleede said she;s happy to see girls “put their mind to something and achieve it … And we see them grow over the season, having it culminate with the 5K.”

By BERNARD CONDON

NEW YORK (AP) — The world’s richest man was just handed a chance to become history’s first trillionaire.

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Elon Musk won a shareholder vote on Thursday that would give the Tesla CEO stock worth $1 trillion if he hits certain performance targets over the next decade. The vote followed weeks of debate over his management record at the electric car maker and whether anyone deserved such unprecedented pay, drawing heated commentary from small investors to giant pension funds and even the pope.

The vote is a resounding victory for Musk showing investors still have faith in him as Tesla struggles with plunging sales, market share and profits in no small part due to Musk himself. Car buyers fled the company this year as he has ventured into politics both in the U.S. and Europe and trafficked in conspiracy theories.

The vote came just three days after a report from Europe showing Tesla car sales plunged again last month, including a 50% collapse in Germany.

Still, many Tesla investors consider Musk as a sort of miracle man capable of stunning business feats, such as when he pulled Tesla from the brink of bankruptcy a half dozen years ago to turn it into one of the world’s most valuable companies.

The vote clears a path for Musk to become a trillionaire by granting him new shares, but it won’t be easy. The board of directors that designed the pay package require him to hit several ambitious financial and operational targets, including increasing the value of the company on the stock market nearly six times its current level.

A 19-year-old from Burnsville is charged with criminal sexual conduct against two younger teens and police said this week they believe there may be additional victims.

Teodros Raymond Pluntz allegedly met the teens through social media apps.

“Detectives are requesting members of the public who were in contact with Pluntz to come forward and share their information,” Burnsville police said in a statement.

The Dakota County Attorney’s Office charged Pluntz in September and he remains jailed with his court cases ongoing. His attorney said he didn’t have a comment on Thursday afternoon.

Rape reported at his parents’ house

A 16-year-old reported she met Pluntz on an app and he picked her up at her home on Sept. 13. They went to Cub Foods and then to Pluntz’s parents’ house on Sibley Court, off Sibley and River Hills drives, in Burnsville.

Teodros Raymond Pluntz (Courtesy of the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office)

She said they started watching a show, she drank some Pink Whitney vodka and “her ears felt muffled, something she has never felt when drinking,” the criminal complaint said.

The complaint also gave the following information from prosecutors:

The teen reported that Pluntz was getting “handsy” and she told him “no.” She said she didn’t remember getting into his bed and continued to black out.

She said Pluntz put pressure on her windpipe, she tried to push him off her and kicked her legs, and he was on top of her pushing down on her chest and holding down her hands with his knees.

When she woke up, Pluntz put a blanket into her mouth and raped her, the complaint said. She woke up again and was naked, in pain and could barely stand.

Pluntz drove her home. That day, he blocked her on all social media apps.

After the teen reported what happened to a school resource officer, she went to the hospital and a nurse documented multiple bruises on her chest and both of her arms, and a red mark on her neck.

In a search of Pluntz’s phone, police found a video of him having sexual contact with the teen. She “appears to be whimpering or crying and when she does speak, she is slurring her words and appears to be extremely intoxicated,” the complaint said.

She told law enforcement she had no recollection of videos being taken. Officers were continuing to go through Pluntz’s phone when he was charged in September.

He is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, along with use of a minor in a sexual performance and possession of child sexual abuse material related to the alleged video.

Also charged in case involving 9th grader

In June, a 15-year-old reported a sexual assault in Burnsville, according to a separate complaint filed Sept. 24. She said she’d met “Teo,” later identified as Pluntz, in fall 2024 on the Wizz app.

She reported she’d put her actual age of 14 in the app, that she wasn’t able to see profiles for people who were older than 17, and she didn’t learn Pluntz’s age until later.

She also said that Pluntz filmed their sexual contact and it was brought to her attention that the videos were publicly posted on X, formerly Twitter, and she was referred to as a “college girl,” the complaint said. She saw four videos posted.

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At the time, she was afraid of her parents finding out what happened and didn’t respond to further contact from law enforcement. As police were investigating the Sept. 13 sexual assault, they followed up with the teen and she reported she’d had sexual contact multiple times with Pluntz when she was in ninth grade.

She said she sometimes agreed to it “and other times she would try and say no but ultimately gave in,” the complaint said. She described an incident when she told Pluntz “no” and tried to get away, but he sexually assaulted her, according to the complaint.

He is charged with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

To contact police

Burnsville police are asking people with information about Teodros Pluntz to call Detective Casey Buck at 952-895-4588, text at 952-215-8430 or email casey.buck@burnsvillemn.gov.

NEW YORK (AP) — Peloton is recalling nearly 878,000 of its exercise bikes across the U.S. and Canada because the products’ seat posts can break during use, posing fall hazards.

According to notices published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada on Thursday, the recall covers certain “Peloton Original Series Bike+” units carrying model number PL02. Peloton has received three reports of seat posts breaking on these bikes in the U.S., two of which resulted in fall injuries. There’s been no additional incidents in Canada to date.

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Both consumer safety watchdogs and Peloton urge owners of these bikes to stop using them and contact the New York-based exercise company for a free seat post replacement.

“The integrity of our products and our Members’ well-being are our top priorities,” a Peloton spokesperson said in an emailed statement — adding that the company would make its redesigned seat post replacements “available to all affected Bike+ users.”

Peloton’s website has information to help determine if your bike is part of the recall and instructions on how to install this new seat post if needed.

The now-recalled bikes were sold at Peloton and Dick’s Sporting Goods stores, as well as websites like Amazon and eBay, from 2020 through April 2025 for about $2,495. The impacted Bike+ units have serial numbers beginning with the letter “T.” About 833,000 units were sold in the U.S. and another 44,800 in Canada.

Peloton previously recalled 2 million of its original Bikes (with model number PL01) back in 2023, following similar — and more numerous — reports of breaking seat posts and related injuries.

The Bike+ products recalled this week were manufactured before that 2023 recall, between December 2019 and July 2022. But the company has since rolled out its redesigned seat post. According to Peloton’s spokesperson, Bike+ products made since the middle of 2023 have had that new seat post and are not impacted.