St. Thomas is the first institution in the Twin Cities to obtain a digital cadaver table for student use in a human anatomy classroom. The digital cadaver is a large table with a computer touch screen that has software built in to visualize the human body and its functions in a digital format.

The tables, made by California-based corporation Anatomage, are widely used by colleges and hospitals throughout the globe, and according to their corporate website, there is at least one table in use in every continent except for Antarctica.

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Recent updates say that Attorney General William Barr said he will release a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation within a week. Barr will testify before a House appropriations subcommittee Tuesday.

He said Mueller’s report will have portions redacted but they will be color-coded to indicate why the information could not be made public. Barr said grand jury information, details that could reveal confidential intelligence sources and information that would interfere with ongoing cases will be redacted.

Lastly, a 23-year-old man faces a U.S. magistrate Tuesday on a charge that he lied to federal agents about being a missing child from Illinois. Authorities on Friday charged Brian Michael Rini, of Medina, Ohio, after ruling him out as being Timmothy Pitzen, who disappeared in 2011 at age 6.

Police picked up Rini on Wednesday morning after a report of someone wandering the streets of Newport, Kentucky. They said that he told them he was Timmothy and that he had escaped two kidnappers after years of sexual abuse.

The FBI said DNA testing ruled him out as Timmothy and established his identity as a convicted felon who twice before claimed to be a juvenile sex trafficking victim.

Kat Barrett can be reached at barr1289@stthomas.edu.