Minnesota

A suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright

The jury at suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial for the killing of Black motorist Daunte Wright has completed its third day of deliberations without reaching a verdict

A jury resumes deliberations Tuesday in the trial of a suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright.

Opening statements loom on Wednesday for a white former Minnesota police officer who said she drew her handgun by mistake when she fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright.

At least 9 cases were confirmed on Thursday in Minnesota, Colorado, New York, Hawaii and California.

A Minnesota woman who worked as an agricultural adviser in the hinterlands of Afghanistan has been using her own time and money to get the Afghans who worked for her program out of the country

Three men were charged with securities fraud involving shell companies that were hijacked and had stock shares pumped up and dumped on unwitting investors.

Two men are set to plead guilty in a Minnesota case where they are charged in a scheme to hijack dormant shell companies and fraudulently pump up stock shares.

A study conducted earlier this year shows there may be a way to reduce the number of Covid infections on board commercial airplanes to virtually zero. Results of the study appeared in a peer-reviewed article published on Sept. 1 in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings medical journal. The article — a joint effort by Mayo Clinic, the Georgia Department of Public…

The Minnesota Supreme Court has reversed the third-degree murder conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman who had called 911 to report a possible rape behind her home

The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for civil rights and hate crimes

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she has been treated for breast cancer and the treatment “went well.”

Klobuchar said the cancer was removed following a lumpectomy, which was followed by radiation treatment.

Minnesota prosecutors have filed a more serious charge against the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, but it is not the murder charge that activists were seeking

U.S. Forest Service officials say the fire on Monday afternoon developed a pyrocumulus cloud, resulting in extreme fire behavior and fire-created lightning.

Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the United States, has died in Minnesota

The U.S. Forest Service has closed a popular recreational wilderness area in northeastern Minnesota as the state’s largest active wildfire threatens the 1-million-acre property

Laid-off workers didn’t have to look for work to collect unemployment benefits early in the Covid pandemic. Most states have re-imposed the requirement.

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