The Minnesota Department of Human Rights today released the findings of its investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department. Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero said in a press conference today that “after completing this extensive investigation the Minnesota Department of Human Rights finds that the city and Minneapolis Police Department engaged in a pattern or practice […]

Independent State Representative John Thompson of St. Paul is under scrutiny after a run-in with St. Paul police on Sunday. Police pulled over a van with expired tabs driven by a 26-year-old woman–later identified as Thompson’s daughter. According to police, the driver was uncooperative and refused to get out for a field sobriety test. Officers […]

Law enforcement officials in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, say they have found the body of a 10-year-old girl who was reported missing–and they’ve begun a homicide investigation. Iliana (Lily) Peters did not return from a visit to her aunt’s home Sunday night. Lily’s bike was found a short distance from her aunt’s home, near a walking […]

Governor Tim Walz is again touting his so-called “Walz Checks”. At a Minneapolis Cub store today, Walz promoted his plan to distribute payments of $500 to tax filers 18 and over and $1,000 for married couples. Walz says, “I’m asking for us to give back a chunk of this check to folks right now not […]

Masks are no longer required at Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) International Airport. That’s after a federal judge on Monday struck down a national public transportation mask mandate. MSP’s Jeff Lea says “there was a lot of confusion in the early evening and late hours yesterday from the ripple effect of the decision by the court and […]

Governor Tim Walz in Rochester today defended his proposal for one-time payout checks to Minnesotans. Walz wants to distribute so-called “Walz Checks”–payments of $500 to tax filers 18 and over and $1,000 for married couples. With a nine-billion-dollar state surplus, Republican leaders say Minnesotans have been overtaxed, but Walz counters, “we do not have a […]

Dr. Beth Thompson–State Veterinarian and Board of Animal Health Executive Director–today announced she is resigning from her position effective May 8th. Thompson has accepted the state veterinarian position in her home state of South Dakota. Thompson says she accepted the opportunity to be closer to family and friends. Thompson says that even though she is […]

A 19-year-old is under arrest in connection to a 2016 sexual assault of a child in St. Paul. The suspect was arrested in Illinois in connection to the five-year-old girl’s sexual assault. Police aren’t releasing the man’s name because he was 13 when the assault happened at a school bus stop. In December 2021 investigators […]

In a 53-47 vote, the U-S Senate today confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Jackson is the first black woman to serve in that role and Senator Amy Klobuchar says Jackson is more than qualified for the job. Klobuchar says, “she’s someone with more experience going into this as a judge than […]

No criminal charges will be filed in the death of Amir Locke. That’s the decision announced today by Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.  22-year-old Amir Locke was shot and killed in a Minneapolis apartment on February 2nd by Mark Hanneman–a SWAT officer of the Minneapolis Police Department. At the […]