Opinion editor's note: Editorials represent the opinions of the Star Tribune Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom. ••• Speaking to the news media on Monday shortly after the University of Minnesota Board of Regents selected her to be the university's next president, Rebecca Cunningham, an emergency-room doctor and vice president for research and innovation at the .
Audrii Cunningham, the 11-year-old Texas girl whose body was found in a river this week, died from homicidal violence that included blunt head trauma, a medical examiner's office said Thursday.