Category: Crime

  • Newport Beach police called him a killer. So why has he been set free?

    Newport Beach police called him a killer. So why has he been set free?

    More than a week after Newport Beach police announced they’d found and arrested a suspect in a four-decade-old homicide case, the man has been freed and county prosecutors say they don’t expect to charge him. On Dec. 6, the Newport Beach Police Department announced in a social media post that it had arrested 70-year-old Michael…

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  • Bob Lee killing: Tech entrepreneur guilty of second-degree murder

    Bob Lee killing: Tech entrepreneur guilty of second-degree murder

    A 40-year-old tech consultant has been convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco last year. The verdict read Tuesday arrives more than a year after Lee was found bleeding to death in a downtown San Francisco street. The jury listened to over six weeks of…

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  • Candidate files lawsuit; alleges DFL winner does not live in district

    MinnPost is hiring an audience editor, a key leadership position

    Starting salary: $75,000 a year Location: Minneapolis, MN MinnPost is hiring an audience editor, a key leadership position that will manage and direct audience development efforts across the organization. This position will lead new investments in MinnPost’s audience strategy as we navigate the ever-changing digital media environment, using audience data to craft and execute engagement strategies that…

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  • Astronomical events 2025: Mercury, Venus, Regulus, total lunar eclipse

    Astronomical events 2025: Mercury, Venus, Regulus, total lunar eclipse

    It was a spectacular year of celestial events for Southern Californians, including April’s solar eclipse and a rare Draconid meteor shower in October. Next year will be another one of dazzling sky shows and offer opportunities for forging deeper connections with astronomy, said Vanessa Alarcon, an astronomical observer at Griffith Observatory. Alarcon told The Times…

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  • Laura Mullen, co-founder of Bent Paddle Brewing Co., displaying cannabis drink options available at the taproom in Duluth.

    Minnesota breweries looking to appeal to younger customers

    As production at craft breweries declines, Minnesota brewers expanded the range of beverages and events they offer to attract younger generations.  That means less beer and more nonalcoholic drinks, cannabis beverages, and canned cocktails, as well as events where individuals would be comfortable in a taproom by themselves, like silent book clubs. Craft brewers throughout…

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  • This chart, based on Xcel Energy data and submitted by consumer and clean energy groups to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, shows a sharp increase in utility shutoffs in 2023 and 2024, which the groups attribute to the utility’s new ability to use smart meters to disconnect customers remotely.

    Amid utility shutoffs, Xcel Energy agrees to racial disparities study

    Amid a surge in utility shutoffs, and in the face of a groundbreaking study finding racial disparities in those outcomes, Minnesota’s largest utility is taking a closer look at the issue. In a November agreement with consumer groups and the state’s Public Utilities Commission, Xcel Energy has outlined a series of steps to provide more…

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  • Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell speaking at the DealBook Summit in New York on December 4, 2024.

    Why Trump and the Federal Reserve could clash over interest rates

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on the promise that his policies would reduce high borrowing costs and lighten the financial burden on American households. But what if, as many economists expect, interest rates remain elevated, well above their pre-pandemic lows? Trump could point a finger at the Federal Reserve, and in particular at…

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  • Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaving a hotel in West Palm Beach en route to meet President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 29.

    The 51st state? How about selling a few states to Canada, instead?

    Cityscape | Twin Cities urban geographer Bill Lindeke weighs in on city life, transportation, planning and more in his column delivered to your inbox weekly.  The notion floated a couple of weeks ago by President-elect Donald Trump that to avoid tussles over tariffs the United States might want to annex Canada warrants more than a…

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  • Tabke keeps Minnesota House seat after recount in Scott County

    Swastikas spray-painted outside Temple Israel in Minneapolis

    Elliot Hughes at the Star Tribune is reporting two spray-painted swastikas were found outside Minneapolis’ Temple Israel, the largest synagogue in Minnesota, on Monday morning. Felicity Dachel at KARE 11 and the Associated Press report that Derek Chauvin is arguing his attorney Eric Nelson gave ineffective counsel. According to the judge’s order, Nelson was reached…

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  • Bass singer David Leigh stops by Minneapolis on Wednesday for a recital with the Minnesota Opera’s own head of music and pianist Mario Antonio Marra.

    The bromance of musicians David Leigh and Mario Antonio Marra

    This spring, bass singer David Leigh will be performing at the historic Palais Garnier with the Paris Opera, singing the role of Virgilio (Virgil) in Pascal Dusapin’s 2022 adaptation of “Il Viaggio, Dante,” (Dante’s Divine Comedy.)  And that’s just part of a globe-trotting season for the graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development…

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