WCCO traced the origins of one of the guns found at the scene where two policemen and a firefighter/medic were killed earlier this month. A third policeman was injured in…
Monday afternoon, a man prohibited from possessing firearms shot and killed his apartment manager in Brooklyn Park after she called the police on the man for assaulting his father. Read…
Following the tragic murders of Burnsville Police Officers Paul Elmstrand, Matthew Ruge, and Tactical Medic Adam Finseth, many around the state are asking how they can help. A financial donation…
Several news organizations have identified the man who shot and killed two police officers and a firefighter yesterday in Burnsville as 38-year-old Shannon Cortez Gooden. One of Gooden’s children called…
An early morning tragedy played out in Burnsville this morning as several first responders were shot and killed while responding to a domestic related call at a single-family residence. The…
Yesterday, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota indicted Defendant No. 61 in the free-food scandal. The indictment of Hoda Ali Abdi of Burnsville, proprietress of the Alif Halal grocery store, can…
One of the first murders recorded in Minneapolis in 2024 featured a gruesome twist. You probably saw the headlines; a local realtor, preparing a vacant house for a showing, discovers…
Digging into a recent alleged homicide in Minneapolis uncovers a remarkable paper trail. A headline from KSTP-TV 5 caught my eye last week: 2 men under ATF investigation charged in…
The ever-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 TV noticed a late Friday press release from the office of the state Attorney General (AG) and promptly put out a Twitter (X) thread,…
Three defendants in the case ran a Burnsville charter school. In the last post, we dug into the tax returns filed by the biggest nonprofits involved in the free-food scandal.…
The 2023 legislative session was a study of pushing through an ideological agenda.
Abdulkadir Awale, defendant No. 56, has become the 10th defendant to plead guilty in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Awale, of Bloomington, ran three restaurants involved in the scandal: Karmel…
Andy Luger, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, announced 10 more defendants were indicted this morning in the Feeding Our Future scandal. The total charged in the case…
In a belated move, the state Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit against the free-food nonprofit ThinkTechAct in early January 2023. Ellison narrowly won re-election as Attorney General last…
Edina Public Schools appears set on shelling out around $150,000 to keep district elections during “off-cycle” (odd-numbered) years. The City of Edina offered to continue administrating elections for the district…
In the wake of the Feeding Our Future scandal, this series has been documenting the fallout among unrelated food charities. Not only was Feeding Our Future shuttered by state authorities,…
This week we’ve been highlighting many of the unrelated nonprofits who were shut down in the wake of the FBI raids back in January. After the raids, the state Department…
The Feeding Our Future scandal largely disappeared from the radar of local media this summer. However, court cases involving the state’s three-largest free-food charities reveal that the battle continues to…
On Friday evening the son of a former metro area police chief was violently assaulted and hospitalized during a robbery of his cell phone in downtown Minneapolis. The chief posted…
Your correspondent ventures south of the river, again. A while back we documented the free-food connections to be found in the south metro suburban city of Burnsville. 1506 Southcross Drive…
And, once again, it involves passport fraud. To date, not one person has been arrested or charged in the underlying Feeding Our Future fraud case. A second figure in the…
Just south of the once-bustling Uptown neighborhood is this nondescript office building: It was Feeding Our Future’s Abdikerm Eidleh’s business address on Hennepin Avenue, which was searched by the FBI…
The south metro suburban city of Burnsville boasts a population of 64,000 and the ski area Buck Hill. It also contains enough free-food distribution capacity (at least on paper) to…
Minnesota cities share plenty of the blame for driving up the cost of new housing subdivisions and commercial developments through an ever-increasing multitude of fees ultimately passed on to buyers.…