Deena Winter

The Minneapolis City Council is poised to approve another $1.4 million in workers’ compensation settlements with 10 former police officers.

On Tuesday, the Trump campaign accused Vice President Kamala Harris of encouraging people in 2020 to bail out of jail a St. Paul man who tried to kill Minneapolis cops five days after George Floyd’s police murder.

The Minneapolis Police Department released a batch of nine disciplinary decisions as part of a November public records request, including a suspension of an officer for taking a vehicle home without authorization and driving it thousands of miles.  

Activists opposed to allowing school police to hold students facedown on the ground say their concerns are being ignored by regulators drafting a model policy that will govern how police can restrain students in Minnesota schools.

For several years, public safety had Gov. Tim Walz stuck in a political vice grip, and events had a way of acting as a tightening turn. Like many Democrats before Floyd’s murder sparked a national racial reckoning, Walz was if anything pro-police. But after Floyd’s killing rocked the world, Walz was vocal about wanting to see the four police officers that were involved charged and convicted; nine police groups told him to back off and let the justice system do its work.

At least three autism centers were reimbursed millions by the state of Minnesota through a fraud-riddled federal child nutrition program, while several others tried to get into the program, according to internal state emails obtained by the Reformer.

A Seattle woman pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to bribing a juror in the first Feeding Our Future trial earlier this year.

Even as the FBI investigates Minnesota autism centers, a former autism center employee says nobody followed up on her fraud report.

The clamorous close of the 2021 legislative session, and Walz’s role in trying to enact police reform in response to the police killings of Floyd and Wright, plays out in a cache of thousands of internal emails.

Some Twin Cities health providers — chiropractors, acupuncturists, physical therapists, dermatologists and dentists — found a curious pipeline of customers in recent years: Faribault residents.Prosecutors say that for years, interpreters and drivers recruited hundreds of residents from the city about 60 miles south of the metro ­to specialty clinics in the Twin Cities as part of a huge Medicaid fraud case.