Abdimajid Mohamed Nur pled guilty today in federal court in downtown Minneapolis to one count of bribery of a juror in the Feeding Our Future case. It’s the first guilty…
One of the DFL’s signature achievements in the last legislative session was a ban on so-called “junk fees.” The Star Tribune reports: “All of us have seen this, especially online,”…
Last week, I wrote about the bankruptcy of the Park Square Court building in downtown St. Paul and how it is an omen of looming budget problems in the city.…
We are officially adding another item to our Scandal Tracker 2024 list. This latest scandal involves the state’s private autism clinics, which are not licensed by the state, but receive…
A “plea agreement hearing” has been scheduled for July 23 in Federal court in Minneapolis. The always-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 was the first to report on this new development…
This morning, in the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, Abdiaziz Shafii Farah was formally arraigned in the $120,000 juror bribery case arising from last month’s fraud trial in the Feeding…
In May, I wrote about Madison Equities putting ten of its commercial properties in downtown St. Paul up for sale, including the First National Bank building, the Park Square Court…
And because the idea is so apocalyptically bad, it’s almost certain to become law next year. Buried on page 87 of the 217-page state government budget bill (HF 1830), passed…
We have historically maintained an important social contract with our law enforcement officers, whereby we afford them protection against personal liability in civil lawsuits for actions they carry out in…
On May 21, Amtrak launched its new Borealis service, a second daily train running between St. Paul and Chicago. Amtrak has released its monthly performance report for May, so it only…
Even as he dodged fireworks in the troubled Dinkytown neighborhood himself last night, Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara declared the overnight festivities to have been “less chaotic.” KARE 11 reports:…
After a series of hearings this morning at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, the three brothers appeared in sequence before Magistrate Judge Tony Leung. All three are pleading not…
You may have seen the videos on social media this weekend. The occasion was the annual Somali Independence Day festival on Lake Street in Minneapolis on Saturday. The event was…
Pervasive criminality in the metro.
Minneapolis is still scarred by the violence of the George Floyd riots.
Is crime down in Minneapolis?
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The ranks of those charged in the sprawling free-food scandal grew by two this week and now stands at 72. Five were indicted this week in the $120,000 juror bribery…
In the Federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul this afternoon, the woman alleged to have delivered the $120,000 in cash to the house of Juror #52 in the recently concluded…
This morning, at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger announced that five individuals have been indicted for attempting to bribe the juror in the recently concluded…
The crime stories from Minnesota get more bizarre by the day. The latest one involves a single-car accident on Interstate 90 near Rochester and is like something out of a…
More news not fit to print. A reader alerted me to a bizarre incident that occurred in suburban St. Louis Park late Friday afternoon (5:14 p.m.) involving two women, two…
In many circles, chronic absenteeism has emerged as one of the biggest problems facing schools right now. As I wrote here, Minnesota’s chronic absenteeism rate has more than doubled since…
On June 10, 2024, the FBI released its Quarterly Uniformed Crime Report (UCR) covering January through March 2024. The report compared the 1st quarter of 2024 to the 1st quarter…