Minnesota Public Radio Stories

• Lutherans pass measure on gay clergy
  Leaders of the country's largest Lutheran denomination have decided to allow gay men and lesbian pastors in committed relationship to lead individual congregations.5:20 p.m.
• Police to change review policy for dash cam videos
  Minneapolis police officials say they will make minor changes to the department's policy on squad car videos in response to a videotaped incident in which officers kicked and punched a man who they say resisted before he was arrested.5:24 p.m.
• Gang strike force fallout raises new questions
  As the FBI continues its investigation into the now defunct Metro Gang Strike Force, questions linger about prosecutions related to those cases and how jurors view police testimony in future cases.5:45 p.m.
• A new train station could be in Minneapolis' future
  We're a long way past the golden era of passenger trains in this country. Even so, there's a plan taking shape in Minneapolis for a new train station sometime in the near future.5:49 p.m.
• DOT: Pilot pleaded to get passengers off stranded plane
  The captain of an airliner stranded overnight on an airport tarmac in Minnesota pleaded unsuccessfully for her 47 passengers to be allowed to get off and go inside a terminal.5:53 p.m.
• Lutherans pass measure on gay clergy
  Leaders of the country's largest Lutheran denomination have decided to allow gay men and lesbian pastors in committed relationship to lead individual congregations.6:20 p.m.

National Public Radio Stories

• Last California Auto Plant Awaits Its Fate
  Toyota reportedly is on the verge of closing a plant it had jointly run with now-bankrupt GM in Fremont, Calif. The plant has turned out thousands of vehicles and supported about 5,000 factory jobs over the past two decades.
• Obama Visit Builds On Vineyard's Historic Legacy
  Next week President Obama and the first family head to Martha's Vineyard. Historian Robert Hayden says the Vineyard's summer intellectual activities have long made it a popular destination for prominent African-Americans.
• Prep Football Players Grit Through 'Basic Training'
  For soldiers, it's basic training. For accountants, it's tax season. For football players, it's summer two-a-days. Coaches, players and parents from two high school football teams — one in New Jersey and one in Philadelphia — sweat it out in the blistering heat in the hope it'll all pay off come fall.
• The 'Gentle Whipping' Of The Performance Review
  Philosopher Alain de Botton has been thinking a great deal about work recently. The author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work says the straightforward custom of beating employees into greater productivity has been replaced with a new kind of torture.
• Aldo Ray: Tarantino's Anti-'Basterd'
  Brad Pitt's character in the Quentin Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds is "Lt. Aldo Raine." It's a homage to Aldo Ray, the star of the same '50s-era World War II films that were nothing like Tarantino's work. And Ray deserves to be remembered.
• Mussorgsky's 'Pictures' Goes Multimedia
  Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and visual artist Robin Rhode are out to reframe Modest Mussorgsky's classic suite for solo piano, Pictures at an Exhibition. For the upcoming world premiere, the pianist will be surrounded by seven video screens as he plays the music.
• Ex-DNC Chief Dean Urges Public Option
  Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is pushing to keep a government-run insurance option, or "public option," in the health care legislation. He says it's not a left vs. right issue, but a common sense issue.
• Sen. Grassley Shifts Stance On Health Care
  Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the leader of the GOP on the Senate Finance Committee, has backed off his earlier commitments to bipartisan health care changes and become the prime obstacle to legislation. The apparent shift in position follows weeks of rowdy town hall meetings.
• Obama Expression Gets Press Corps 'Wee-Weed Up'
  President Obama spent time Thursday rallying his supporters for a health care overhaul. He compared the current pessimism over health care to the early days of last year's presidential campaign. In doing so, he used the term "wee-weed up" to describe the emotions in Washington in August and September. That unusual phrase set off a flurry of head-scratching in the press corps.
• Karzai, Rival Claim Win In Afghan Vote
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah, both declared themselves winners in Thursday's presidential election. Election officials said, however, results aren't due for days.

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