ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota State Fair is back. The fair was canceled last year amid COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and social distancing recommendations. But fair officials announced Friday the beloved event will return on Aug. 26 and run through Labor Day, which falls on Sept. ...
By STEFANIE DAZIO, JAKE BLEIBERG and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press Law enforcement agencies across the country experienced a wave of retirements and departures and are struggling to recruit the next generation of police officers in the year since George Floyd was killed by a cop. And amid ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former Wisconsin high school teacher accused of secretly videotaping undressed students during field trips in Wisconsin and Minnesota has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors. David Kruchten, 38, of Cottage Grove, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press The Associated Press won two Pulitzer Prizes in photography Friday for its coverage of the racial injustice protests and the coronavirus's terrible toll on the elderly, while The New York Times received the public service award for its detailed, data-filled ...
By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The teenager who pulled out her cellphone and began recording when she saw George Floyd being pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis police officer was given a special citation by the Pulitzer Prizes on Friday for her video that helped to ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury has convicted two men in the 2019 kidnapping and slaying of a real estate agent in Minnesota. The Star Tribune reports Cedric Berry and Berry Davis, both 42, were found guilty in Hennepin County District Court on Friday. Prosecutors said Monique Baugh, 28, was ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three people were killed in separate shootings in Minneapolis early Saturday, authorities said, though none of the shootings were related to protests in the city over the fatal shooting of a Black man by sheriff's deputies earlier in the week. Police were called at 1:37 ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Protesters faced off with officers in Minneapolis early Saturday over the shooting death of a Black man by members of a U.S. Marshals task force. Photos from the scene following a vigil for Winston Boogie Smith Jr., 32, showed dumpster fires in the street and a line of ...
WOODBURY, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a 14-year-old boy was killed in a shooting at a graduation party Saturday night in a Twin Cities suburb. Police say as many as 40 people were at a party in Woodbury when gunshots rang out. Several surrounding houses were struck by gunfire, police ...
SOLWAY, Minn. (AP) — Environmental and tribal groups opposed to Enbridge Energy's ongoing effort to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline are planning large protests in northern Minnesota as the Canadian-based company gears up for a final construction push. Organizers say they expect ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former top official in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis mishandled clergy sex abuse cases and failed to protect children from abusive priests, an archdiocese investigation has concluded. The archdiocese announced results of its investigation into the Rev. ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors in Ramsey County have charged man under supervision for sexually assaulting a teenager in 1993 with sexually assaulting another woman in January. Jesse Curry, 57, was charged Thursday with third-degree criminal sexual conduct, the St. Paul Pioneer Press ...
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — In a sign of meatpacking workers becoming emboldened by the pandemic's health threats and economic repercussions, the union at a South Dakota pork processing plant that experienced a bad coronavirus outbreak last year has ...
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A 76-year-old Minnesota man has been arrested in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old suburban Chicago girl nearly half a century ago, authorities said Friday. The Naperville Police Department arrested Barry Lee Whelpley of Mounds View, Minnesota, on Wednesday for the ...
By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A magistrate judge has delayed until September the arraignment of four former Minneapolis police officers charged with federal civil rights violations in George Floyd's death, ruling Friday that the case is complex and not subject to time ...
By AMY FORLITI and MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities said Friday that a man wanted on a weapons violation fired a gun before deputies fatally shot him in Minneapolis, a city on edge since George Floyd's death more than a year ago under an officer's knee and the ...
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — June will be a critical month for Enbridge Energy's Line 3 crude oil pipeline as the company resumes construction and opponents mobilize for large-scale protests and civil disobedience. One prominent opponent, Winona LaDuke, founder of ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen signed onto a lawsuit seeking to stop COVID-19 vaccinations for 12- to 15-year-olds that, among other things, compares such inoculations to Nazi experimentation on imprisoned Jews. Jensen, a family physician ...
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) — Brooklyn Park police said Friday they've made an arrest in the sexual assault of a 6-year-old boy in a portable toilet in a local park. According to officials, the boy's family was having a gathering in Willowstone Park Wednesday when the child disappeared. A ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two children have drowned in separate incidents in pools in the Twin Cities. Authorities say a 4-year-old died five days after he was found in the pool at a downtown Minneapolis hotel, and a 5-year-old boy died earlier this week at an apartment complex pool in ...