A Minnesota woman who displayed photos of dead babies during a city council meeting is not guilty of disorderly conduct, the state’s highest court ruled, striking down a disorderly-conduct statute barring disturbances at public meetings.
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Minnesota’s attorney general claims in court that an unlicensed lender targets veterans in financial distress and offers loans that eat into their pension plans for a three to five-year period.
Read moreDetained for nearly 11 hours because of unexplained placement on the terrorist watch list, a Somali-American family has brought a federal complaint against the U.S. attorney general and a half-dozen other officials.
Read moreMinnesota, Wisconsin and the federal government reached a deal Thursday for three companies to pay more than $8 million for natural resource damages at a Superfund site in Minnesota.
Read moreA Minnesota judge gave the okay to temporarily fund the Legislature while state lawmakers continue their legal fight against Gov. Mark Dayton’s line-item veto of operating budgets.
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A Minnesota judge heard debate Monday over whether Gov. Mark Dayton’s line-item veto of operating budgets for the Legislature violates a separation of powers clause in the state constitution.
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The mother of Philando Castile, a black motorist killed by a Minnesota police officer last year, has reached a nearly $3 million settlement in his death, according to an announcement Monday by her attorneys and the Minneapolis suburb that employed the officer.
Read moreMinnesota authorities on Tuesday publicly released dashcam video of former St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez shooting and killing Philando Castile in July 2016, four days after Yanez was acquitted of manslaughter.
Read moreST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) – A Minnesota jury on Friday acquitted St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez of manslaughter for
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State lawmakers claim in court that core functions of the Minnesota Legislature will go unfulfilled because of Gov. Mark Dayton’s last-minute veto of operating budgets.
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Prosecutors and defense attorneys gave closing arguments Monday in the manslaughter trial of the Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile last summer, before the jury began deliberating his fate.
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A solar development firm sued a small Minnesota town over its refusal to allow the company to build a community solar-energy garden based on ambiguous requirements in a zoning ordinance.
Read moreSt. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez took the witness stand Friday in his manslaughter trial over the traffic-stop killing of Philando Castile, telling jurors he saw Castile reach for a gun and thought he was going to die.
Read moreA father claims Blue Cross Blue Shield’s blanket refusal to pay for his daughter’s therapy just because it took place at an outdoor wilderness program is discriminatory against people who suffer from mental health disorders.
Read moreThe girlfriend of Philando Castile, who live-streamed on Facebook the immediate aftermath of his killing by a Minnesota police officer, led off the testimony Tuesday, the second day of the manslaughter trial of St. Anthony police Officer Jeronimo Yanez.
Read moreA government watchdog organization claims in court that Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton’s line-item veto stopping all salary payments to state legislators is unconstitutional and goes against an independent council’s decision to raise their pay.
Read moreThe jury that will determine the fate of the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile heard opening statements Monday, testimony from two witnesses and watched video of the fatal shooting.
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ST. CLOUD, Minn. (CN) – The criminal investigation file relating to the 1989 abduction of Minnesota boy Jacob Wetterling will
Read moreSurvivors of physical and sexual abuse claim the Minneapolis-area child protection system is among the worst in the country, unable to protect minors from widespread abuse and neglect.
Read moreThe much-anticipated manslaughter trial of the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a routine traffic stop last summer is set to begin Tuesday with jury selection.
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