Category: Crime

  • Medica headquarters in Minnetonka.

    Medica shuts down Minnesota HQ following shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO

    Star Tribune reports Medica shut down Minnesota headquarters due to safety concerns as the manhunt for UnitedHealth CEO killer stretches into day three.  Via FOX9: “Americans’ positive views of the quality and coverage of U.S. health care has reached its lowest point in more than two decades, according to a recent poll by Gallup.” The…

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  • Alleged white supremacist charged with murder in pursuit crash death

    Alleged white supremacist charged with murder in pursuit crash death

    An alleged white supremacist gang member who Orange County prosecutors say led police on a high-speed chase that ended in a violent crash, killing a Vietnamese tourist and seriously injuring two others, has been charged with murder. Timothy Bradford Cole II, 43, of Huntington Beach, was charged Thursday with one count of murder, evading a…

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  • USDA says it will start testing milk for bird flu virus nationwide

    USDA says it will start testing milk for bird flu virus nationwide

    Nearly a year after a wild bird infected with H5N1 avian flu presumably passed its viral baggage to a dairy cow in the Texas panhandle — which has subsequently led to the infection of more than 700 herds nationwide and sickened at least 32 dairy workers — the nation’s agriculture department announced Friday that it…

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  • A city council race was tied so this California city drew straws to decide who won

    A city council race was tied so this California city drew straws to decide who won

    When it came down to deciding a tied race for a Galt City Council seat, the longest straw won. Three people ran this year for two open seats on the City Council: Tim Reed won one of them with 5,870 votes, according to the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters. But Mathew Pratton and Bonnie Rodriguez…

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  • Suspect arrested in string of Southland parking lot robberies

    Suspect arrested in string of Southland parking lot robberies

    In one instance, the robber targeted a woman as she walked to her car in the Hustler Casino parking lot in Gardena, shoving a semiautomatic pistol into the mouth of his victim, breaking her teeth and threatening, “If you yell again, I’ll kill you.” He stole more than $1,000 from her purse. In another incident,…

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  • Another murder conviction for a California fentanyl dealer

    Another murder conviction for a California fentanyl dealer

    A 23-year-old Placer County man will soon begin serving a decades-long prison sentence after he was convicted of murder for providing the fentanyl that killed a soon-to-be father struggling with addiction. Carson Schewe was sentenced to 20 years to life Thursday after a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder for his role in the…

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  • Naked man arrested at Ventura County high school tied to nearby homicide

    Naked man arrested at Ventura County high school tied to nearby homicide

    A naked man arrested at a Ventura County high school was linked to a killing at a nearby home, according to reports. The 24-year-old man, whose name was not released, was being investigated for a death Thursday at a house in the 400 block of Jeanne Court. Ventura County Sheriff’s Captain Ken Truitt said the…

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  • At the council's regular meeting this week, council members Jamal Osman and Andrea Jenkins changed course, sustaining the mayor’s veto.

    Minneapolis council changes course on Labor Standards Board

    When the Minneapolis City Council passed its resolution to create a city Labor Standards Board, the motion passed in a 9-3 vote, a council supermajority. When Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed this resolution, proponents of the board as currently outlined in the council-passed resolution needed this supermajority to hold in an override vote.   But at the…

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  • Meshell Ndegeocello will perform two sold-out shows at the Walker Art Center entitled, “No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin.”

    Meshell Ndegeocellos channels James Baldwin in latest work

    Meshell Ndegeocello is an artist in full, a human being continually challenging herself toward change and reinvention, a fierce assignment that has delivered extraordinary depth and versatility to her musical forms of expression.  From her head-turning 1993 debut, “Plantation Lullabies,” onward, Ndegeocello has treated her career like a cauldron and a cocoon, a place for…

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

    Minnesota AG sues former superintendent over hedge fund scandal

    Via Bring Me the News: “Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the former superintendent of a St. Paul charter school who lost the school $4.3 million after illegally investing in a hedge fund in 2019.” KARE reports Maple Grove police have detailed bomb threats and suspicious activity threats against the late UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian…

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