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WASHINGTON — Conservative justices holding the Supreme Court's majority seem ready to sink President Joe Biden's plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans. In arguments lasting more than three hours Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts led his conservative colleagues in questioning the administration's authority to broadly cancel federal student...

A 16-year-old pleaded guilty to a weapons charge in connection with the shooting of three teenagers last week as they left a funeral reception for a student stabbed to death this month at Harding High School in St. Paul. The teen entered his plea in Ramsey County juvenile court on the same day he was charged with possessing a handgun modified to be a fully automatic pistol and...

Feb. 27—RED LAKE — Red Lake Nation College has been awarded a $1,924,280 grant from the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program. The program is run by the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration and is part of the Biden-Harris Administration's Internet for All initiative, a release said. Red Lake Nation College is one of 61...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Robbinsdale man has been sentenced to 120 months in prison for illegal possession of a firearm, to be served consecutively to a prior sentence of 70 months for illegal possession of a firearm, followed by three years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to the defendant’s guilty plea and court documents, on...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. - Today, the House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee heard legislation authored by Rep. Alicia Kozlowski (DFL- Duluth) to fund the First Witness Child Advocacy Center in Duluth. The legislation invests a $1.5 million grant for First Witness Child Advocacy Center to demolish and renovate certain buildings for use as a training center and a child...

WASHINGTON — This week, as part of the continued work by the Departments of the Interior and Justice to implement the Not Invisible Act and combat the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP), Secretary Deb Haaland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco hosted the first in-person plenary session of the Not Invisible Act Commission at the U.S. Department of...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Twenty-three communities around Minnesota will benefit from $725,000 from this year’s planning and programming grants that support the Safe Routes to School program, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced today. The list of the 2023 grant recipients is below. Safe Routes to School is an international program to improve safety and reduce...

After almost three years, temporary emergency benefits that helped Minnesotans with low incomes buy food during the COVID-19 pandemic are ending. Most clients will receive their final emergency payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in March. Most SNAP recipients were eligible for the emergency allotments. They received either an additional $95 in benefits,...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A federal civil jury has returned a verdict in favor of the United States for more than $43 million for violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute. During the six-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright, the United States proved that the Defendants the Cameron-Ehlen Group, Inc., which does business as Precision...

St. Paul – The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has named two new assistant commissioners: Abdiwahab Mohamed will serve as Assistant Commissioner for Immigrant and Refugee Affairs and Elizabeth Frosch will serve as Assistant Commissioner for Operations. Mohamed to continue leading Immigrant and Refugee Affairs work As Assistant Commissioner...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Bemidji man has pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to the defendant’s guilty plea and court documents, on May 2, 2022, law enforcement observed Levi Adams Westbrook, 30, meet with a suspected drug trafficker in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. As...

On February 28, the City of Bemidji water tower located on 1st Street E experienced damage to its center water riser column. This damage was in the form of a column implosion and occurred during maintenance the utility department was performing on the water tower. Sections of 1st Street E were cordoned off for about 2 hours while the City could confirm the structural integrity...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. - Today, the Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee voted to advance HF 1406 on a voice vote. HF 1406, chief authored by Representative Cedrick Frazier (DFL- New Hope) will limit the conditions under which a person can be convicted of aiding and abetting two types of felony murder. “The way our current laws are written, the impact is disproportionate...