Metro-area students are speaking up after last week’s mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church. WCCO TV reports “students in the Twin Cities are set to stage walkouts, demanding state and federal lawmakers pass bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.” The walkouts started at noon and are planned in cities like Eagan, Hopkins, Stillwater and more. Related events are planned later in the afternoon at the Capitol.

A Minneapolis artist is doing his part to help the victims of the tragedy. KARE 11 says the artist, known as Kickliy, “has been setting up his easel outside Annunciation Church. … The idea was to create one oil painting that could be auctioned off to benefit Annunciation. But once Kickliy completed the first painting, he had the idea to paint as many as he could o

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