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Alex Pretti's father delivered a message to U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Dan Rosen and Attorney General Todd Blanche: “Look in your heart and do what is right, share the evidence now so prosecutors can follow the facts and hold these men accountable. Do your job and stop shielding Alex’s killers.”

So there used to be a thing called the Tunnel of Terror in St. Paul

MapQuest now shows where Flock cameras are

Widespread screenings are underway at Lakewood Health System’s hospital and clinics in north-central Minnesota to try to prevent a measles cluster from spreading.

The State of Minnesota would like to file a complaint with the Head Gamemaker at @nytimes.com because the game is Duck, Duck, Gray Duck, not whatever abomination this is

“We really would like to be married for this journey together,” Tammy Seys said. Her boyfriend has recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer. “There was no humanity given to me at any level by my priest, at the diocese, absolutely nothing,” Seys said.

The invasion has begun!

Despite studies showing alcohol is involved in half or more of sexual assaults, state law did not consider somebody “mentally incapacitated” if they became intoxicated voluntarily. That threw a wrench into the legal arguments of victims who said their intoxication prevented them from consenting.

The law lacks teeth, legal experts say, because it doesn’t lay out enforcement details or potential penalties. All 80 books banned in Minnesota last year came from one school.

Minneapolis City Council members are exploring whether they could subpoena Mayor Jacob Frey and other city employees to appear before them to answer questions after Frey recently began limiting how much time his staff spends in council meetings.

The Department of Justice is suing the city of St. Paul over ordinances banning federal law enforcement officers — including ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents — from hiding their faces on the job, as well as requiring they identify themselves.

Quick word of advice for students applying for internships: Make sure you read the application requirements carefully! If a post says submit work samples, please make sure that you do! School assignments are fine, too!

ICE's Operation Metro Surge cost Minnesota 32,000 jobs, a new study found.

The poll found that 68% of likely voters are very or somewhat concerned that advanced AI could bring about humanity’s destruction.

Nearly 6 in 10 likely voters — 58% — disapprove of Trump’s job performance, up from 56% in June and 54% a year ago. The changes fall within the poll’s margin of error, but the latest findings show the depth of his unpopularity in a state that has rejected him in 3 consecutive presidential elections.

The decision came nearly a month after widespread outcry over plans to close some schools.

Pope Leo XIV is recovering at a Rome hospital after a “successful” surgery to remove a part of his lung which was found to have a cancerous growth, according to a statement from the Vatican. https://cnn.it/4dE6Uqq

“While there’s a possibility that there’s some evidence we don’t know about, when I look at the circumstances surrounding this search, it doesn’t pass the smell test for me,” Doug Kelley, a former federal prosecutor in Minnesota under the Carter and Reagan administrations, said.

The North Woods School in Cook, Minn., on the Iron Range banned more books from its library than every other public school in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North and South Dakota — combined.

Gov. Tim Walz considered leaving public office after the assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, according to a New York Times investigation into rising threats of political violence against elected officials nationwide.

"I’m tired of having to defend the humanity of people who look like me or share my values. I’m worried we are going to start locking our doors again and looking over our backs. It was meant to instill fear. I’m not scared, but I’m very careful."

Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home, according to the Associated Press.

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Standing ovation for Addie, always

The documentary "They're Here" debuts in Minneapolis tonight. It's already sold out but another showing is set for Nov. 4 at the Cedar Cultural Center.

Named all six in one go, feeling like I'd dominate trivia right now and only right now.

A Minnesota law banning nudification technology has been paused by a federal appeals court that sided with tech billionaire Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company in its request to temporarily block the statute.

The entrances were open, and many did not notice the signs with QR codes and directions to pay hung high on light poles well above eye level. One driver scanned the codes, and was directed to a website listing the prices as $5,000 for two hours, or $11,000 for the day.

Did y'all see the guy who carried an entire canoe during the Twin Cities Marathon? He did it as a show of support for the Boundary Waters. He's now been disqualified for breaking the rules (no bulky items, costumes or props that extend beyond the perimeter of the body)

Assistant Hennepin County Public Defender Raissa Carpenter, one of Boelter’s attorneys, told Judge Juan Hoyos that that even if she and her co-counsel, Bryan Leary, were to clear their entire calendar they could not review the evidence in time for trial on Nov. 2. It was rescheduled to May 10, 2027.

Twin Cities burbs are getting more diverse -- but not city councils “There’s fairly substantial evidence over the course of American history that City Council representation lags behind population diversification,” Vanderbilt Professor Jessica Trounstine said. “And sometimes it never catches up.”

An Edina ophthalmologist had to quickly resurrect his business this week after UnitedHealthcare incorrectly told patients he was dead. Health insurers were in the process of canceling network contracts with him.

"A yearlong journey beset with sores, an infection and multiple surgeries couldn’t stop her from achieving what most of us couldn’t do on two legs." Incredible. New column from @laurayuen.bsky.social about Andrea Lee, an incredible human being

The measure will now go to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. If he vetoes it, the council would need nine votes to override him.

Adriana Cerrillo and Lucie Skjefte were not present for a combined 22 regular and special business meetings over the past 21 months, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune review of attendance recorded in board minutes.

The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent near her home in January, filed two federal lawsuits Thursday alleging wrongful death, among other contentions.

FUN THINGS HAPPEN IN MINNESOTA! There's an emu on the loose!

Since 2014, a quarter of the state's obstetrics units have closed, leaving more prospective parents far from a delivery room. Doctors say anything beyond a 30-minute drive puts expectant mothers in harm’s way.

Mr. Belding!!!!

AI may be everywhere but analog is having its own moment

Vance Boelter’s defense team is pressing forward with a legal argument that he was justified in taking the lives of state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and attempting to kill several other lawmakers because he was “effecting a lawful arrest.”

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, on behalf of two students and their parents, filed a lawsuit against the Detroit Lakes Public School District and four of its school board members for banning rainbow LGBTQ Pride stickers on classroom doors.

“ICE is not a law unto itself,” Judge Patrick J. Schiltz wrote in his Jan. 28 order. After his warning, judges in other districts around the country began using their rulings to sound the same alarm — the administration’s approach to detaining immigrants was jeopardizing the rule of law.

Over the past three years, Hennepin County has spent more than $500,000 on private security for top prosecutor Mary Moriarty’s office — an unprecedented cost that increased dramatically after Vance Boelter’s attack on state lawmakers.

Christian Castro, 52, was stopped by agents with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in a traffic stop near his attorney’s office in Minneapolis and taken to jail. Castro allegedly shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in north Minneapolis on Jan. 14, and later lied about it to the FBI.

Federal officials have declared the forest fires that raged across northeastern Minnesota this summer 100% contained.

The proposed options for Minneapolis schools is complex, with three possibilities that could change depending on where you live. Tom Nehil and Mara Klecker created this slick lookup tool to make it easier to understand: