Minnesota Judge Sets Separate Trials for Cops in George Floyd Killing
The trial of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in connection with the death of George Floyd has been split in two.
Read moreThe trial of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in connection with the death of George Floyd has been split in two.
Read moreMinnesota car dealers took to federal court Wednesday to fight proposed changes to the state’s emissions rules for new automobiles, saying that the state’s ongoing rulemaking is preempted by federal environmental laws.
Read moreMinneapolis police released body camera footage Thursday of a fatal exchange of gunfire with a Black man that brought protests back to South Minneapolis Wednesday night.
Read moreMinnesota’s highest court unanimously upheld the state’s nonconsensual-porn statute Wednesday, bringing holiday cheer to privacy advocates and a year-end letdown to free-speech groups.
Read moreOne of the four officers involved in the fatal arrest of George Floyd is seeking sanctions and a postponed trial, claiming prosecutors withheld a medical examiner’s interview for over two months.
Read moreEfforts to defund the Minneapolis Police Department stumbled past another hurdle late Wednesday night when the Minneapolis City Council passed a budget which cut the department’s funding by $7.7 million, but left a window open for the hiring of 140 new officers.
Read moreA challenge to Minnesota’s effort to put cheap insulin in the hands of impoverished diabetics faced its first hurdle Tuesday in federal court, where a pharmaceutical lobbying group argued for an injunction to prohibit the law’s enforcement.
Read moreThe Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday night that high school students laid off due to the Covid-19 pandemic can access unemployment benefits.
Read moreThe Army Corps of Engineers Monday issued three permits to Canadian energy company Enbridge for the construction of its controversial Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline in Minnesota.
Read moreThe controversial Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline is nearly primed to advance in Minnesota after state regulators approved final permits Thursday.
Read moreMINNEAPOLIS — A nonprofit that sponsors free meals for low-income kids sued the Minnesota Department of Education for denying or
Read moreMinnesota Governor Tim Walz announced a scattering of new measures to slow the spread of Covid-19 on Tuesday, most of them targeted at bars and restaurants.
Read moreThe four former police officers charged in connection with the arrest and death of George Floyd will face trial together in March, a Minnesota judge ordered Thursday, and that trial is tentatively staying in Minneapolis.
Read moreIn a late Thursday decision, the Eighth Circuit ruled that mailed-in ballots in Minnesota have to be in by Election Day or will go uncounted, striking down state election officials’ plan to accept ballots up to a week after.
Read moreU.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch rejected a Minnesota Republican congressional candidate’s attempt to delay voting in his race following the September death of Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate Adam Weeks.
Read moreA private security company that said it was seeking former special forces to guard Minnesota polling places has assured authorities the company was only seeking guards for private property and has agreed to stay out of the state for over a year.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit denied a Minnesota Republican congressman’s request for a stay of an order requiring the state to honor the results of the Nov. 3 election, despite the death of the Legal Marijuana Now Party’s candidate for office. The third-party candidate’s death shortly before the election does not warrant cancellation of the election for the congressman’s seat.
Read moreA Minnesota judge dismissed a third-degree murder charge against the fired police officer accused of killing George Floyd, but found prosecutors had probable cause for all other charges against him and three other officers, including second-degree murder.
Read moreA Tennessee security company’s effort to recruit and deploy an armed and paid militia to Minnesota polling places made its way to federal court Tuesday, where two nonprofits accused the company of trying to intimidate voters.
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