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October 18, 2020 at 1:35 pm

Longtime Minnesota sports columnist Sid Hartman dies at 100

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota sports columnist and radio personality Sid Hartman, an old-school home team booster who once ran the NBA’s Minneapolis Lakers and achieved...

August 27, 2020 at 8:10 am

Misinformation, police mistrust stir unrest in Minneapolis VIEW

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After a Black man fatally shot himself on a pedestrian plaza in downtown Minneapolis, rumors of another police shooting in the city...

August 26, 2020 at 8:44 pm

National Guard activated after downtown Minneapolis unrest VIEW

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The governor of Minnesota activated the National Guard on Wednesday night to help quell unrest that broke out in downtown Minneapolis following...

August 13, 2020 at 3:52 pm

Ex-cop’s video captures crowd’s horror during Floyd arrest

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Newly released body-camera video from a third officer involved in George Floyd’s arrest captures for the first time the growing horror of...

August 12, 2020 at 4:07 pm

Prosecutors want joint trial for 4 ex-cops in Floyd death

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday asked a judge to try four fired Minneapolis police officers jointly in George Floyd’s death. Minnesota Attorney General Keith...

August 11, 2020 at 1:44 pm

Prosecution rejects rookie argument by ex-cop in Floyd death

Minneapolis (AP) — State prosecutors have rejected an argument by a fired Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death that he was just a...

June 20, 2020 at 7:05 am

Minnesota lawmakers fail to reach deal on revamping policing VIEW

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota legislative leaders traded barbs Saturday after a special session collapsed with no deal on revamping policing following the death of George...

People gather around a makeshift memorial Tuesday, May 26, 2020, in Minneapolis, near where an black man was taken into police custody the day before who later died. The FBI and Minnesota agents are investigating the death of a black man in Minneapolis police custody after video from a bystander showed a white officer kneeling on his neck during his arrest as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen) RPJB101 RPJB101

May 26, 2020 at 5:30 am

Four Minneapolis officers fired after death of handcuffed Black man VIEW

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four Minneapolis officers involved in the arrest of a black man who died in police custody were fired Tuesday, hours after a...

April 20, 2020 at 12:43 pm

Minnesota man accused of dismembering woman, dumping remains

PLYMOUTH, Minn. (AP) — A western Minnesota man has admitted that he killed a 19-year-old woman, dismembered her in his garage and disposed of the...

November 27, 2019 at 5:48 am

5 dead, 3 hurt in ‘devastating’ Minneapolis high-rise fire VIEW

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five people died and three were injured when a fire broke out on the 14th floor of a public housing high-rise in...