MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — No charges will be filed against a pawn shop owner in the fatal shooting of another man during unrest that followed the death of George Floyd because witnesses were scarce and evidence at the scene was destroyed, prosecutors said Monday. Calvin Horton Jr., 43, was found ...
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Senate voted Monday night to pass a $216 million relief package aimed at businesses and workers who took the biggest hit from a four-week "pause" ordered by Gov. Tim Walz as increasing coronavirus cases threatened to ...
By ROBIN McDOWELL and MARGIE MASON Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota's pardon board will consider freeing a Black man who was imprisoned for life as a teenager in the 2002 slaying of an 11-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet while doing homework at her dining room table. The ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota health officials on Sunday confirmed 85 new deaths due to complications from the coronavirus, lifting the death toll to 4,444 since the start of the pandemic. The state reported 3,439 positive COVID-19 tests in the last day, for an overall count of 378,823. ...
BATTLE LAKE, Minn. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy found dead in Otter Tail County apparently was attacked by the family dog, according to sheriff's officials. Deputies responded to a residence near Battle Lake Thursday afternoon and found the boy deceased in the yard. Officials said the dog, a ...
LAKE ELMO, Minn. (AP) — The family of a Lake Elmo man fatally shot by a Washington County deputy has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in federal court. Benjamin Evans, 23, was killed during a standoff in April 2018. Evans was upset about his ex-girlfriend and held a gun to his head for about ...
By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C (AP) — As coronavirus exposure notification technology slowly rolls out across the country, every resident in 17 states and the District of Columbia will now be able to send and receive alerts beyond their home state if ...
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — The owner of a historic St. Cloud bar has been indicted on federal arson and wire fraud charges for allegedly setting fire to the business and submitting a fraudulent insurance claim, prosecutors announced Friday. Andrew Welsh, 41, of St. Joseph, was arrested Friday ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Reps. Tom Emmer, Pete Stauber and Jim Hagedorn of Minnesota were among the Republicans who signed on to a last-gasp bid to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the presidential election. The three are among more than 100 House Republicans who joined an amicus brief ...
MURDOCK, Minn. (AP) — The city council in a small Minnesota farming community has voted to grant a permit that allows a controversial Nordic heritage church that has been identified as a white supremacist group to gather at an abandoned church. The vote Wednesday night came after the council ...
By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a budget early Thursday that will shift about $8 million from the police department toward violence prevention and other programs — but will keep the mayor's targeted ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three men have been indicted on federal arson charges in connection with fires that were set inside the Target corporate headquarters building during unrest that followed rumors of an August police shooting in downtown Minneapolis. The unrest began after a Black man who ...
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A group of parents sued Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials Thursday, seeking to throw out his order that put high school sports on hold to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Lawmakers meanwhile said they have agreed on $216 ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Clear Channel Outdoor has canceled a billboard order for downtown Minneapolis that featured an artist's painting of George Floyd being restrained by three police officers, the artist said Thursday. Brooklyn-based artist Don Perlis said he got an email Thursday from Clear ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 300 Minneapolis residents signed up to speak Wednesday night on a plan to shrink the city's police department, with some pleading for City Council members to deliver the reforms they promised after George Floyd's death and others warning it would be irresponsible ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury on Wednesday convicted the leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group of several civil rights and hate crime charges in the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque. Prosecutors outlined 49-year-old Michael Hari's hatred for Muslims as his motivation for the ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota health officials said they're grateful that the spread of the coronavirus appears to have stabilized in recent days, but cautioned Wednesday that case growth and hospitalization levels remain worryingly high. Meanwhile, Gov. Tim Walz formally called a special ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A national panel of legal experts recommended the immediate release of a Black man sentenced to life in prison as a teenager nearly two decades ago. The panel also said Minneapolis police appear to have suffered from "tunnel vision" while investigating the case of Myon ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The first of 183,000 Minnesotans who will get the new coronavirus vaccine in the initial wave could get their shots as early as Christmas week, Gov. Tim Walz and state health officials announced Tuesday. "So perhaps an early Christmas present," the state's infectious ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors cited an Illinois man's anti-Islamic writings and testimony from co-defendants in urging a jury Tuesday to convict him in the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque. In closing arguments in the trial of Michael Hari, 49, prosecutors cited testimony from his ...