Two big issues before the Minneapolis City Council are getting votes Thursday. One is funding for a downtown homeless shelter and another is extending a contract for a gunshot detection system system called ShotSpotter. And more than two dozen people were taken to hospitals Wednesday after a hay ride accident at a western Wisconsin apple orchard. 

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