🌱 Hepola Runs For Governor + Historic Lowry Hill Castle For Sale

Morning, Minneapolis. Thanks for starting your Thursday with Patch.

First, today's weather: Cloudy. High: 25 Low: 21.

Here are the top 5 stories today in Minneapolis:

1. A Minneapolis woman is claiming self-defense in the February shooting of what she believed was a home invader. She shot and killed 30-year-old Martin Lee Johnson on the 3300 block of 25th Avenue South. (BMTN)

2. Cory Hepola announced Wednesday that he will run for governor of Minnesota. The former KARE11 TV and WCCO radio host “joins a crowded field” of candidates. (Patch)

3. Details are emerging about the criminal history of Minneapolis man Cody Fohrenkam, who was arrested last month for fatally shooting 15-year-old Deshaun Hill. According to KARE11, Fohrenkam has an arson conviction and a felony gun possession charge. (KARE11)

4. President Joe Biden landed in Duluth Wednesday just hours after his State of the Union address. The president then spoke about infrastructure at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. (Paid source: Star Tribune)

5. Downtown businesses are bracing for further impact from the MLB lockout, which officially delayed the start of the Minnesota Twins’ regular season. The earliest the date games could begin is April 8. (CBS)

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Today in Minneapolis:

• Columbia Heights Public Library hosts "Baby Read Baby Grow." (10:30 a.m.)
• Hear the Minnesota Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony. (11 a.m.)
• Take a watercolor painting class at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church. (6 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• A historic castle is up for sale in the Lowry Hill neighborhood, listed at $3.8 million. (Patch)
• Minneapolis Public Schools are celebrating Women’s History Month. (Twitter)
• The Minneapolis Polar Plunge & 5K is set for Saturday at Thomas Beach. (PlungeMN)
• University of Minnesota graduate Aya Cash will play a Star Tribune reporter in the upcoming FOX series “Welcome to Flatch,” which premieres March 17. (Paid source: Star Tribune)

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— Georgi Presecky

About me: Georgi is a Chicago-based newsletter writer and partner content curator. She spent five years on the entertainment beat for FF2 Media covering film festivals across the U.S. Her feature articles have been recognized with awards from the Illinois Women's Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. As editor-in-chief of the Lewis University newspaper, she and her staff earned honors from the Associated Collegiate Press and American Scholastic Press Associations. She began working for Patch in 2019.