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WILLIAMSPORT. Pa. - The wife of a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has pleaded guilty to a federal charge after investigators said she shipped stolen human body parts - including hands, feet and heads - to buyers. Denise Lodge, 64, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania to a charge of interstate transportation of stolen goods, according to court records. Federal prosecutors last year announced charges against...
(Bemidji, MN) (April 14, 2024) – The GigaZone Gaming Championship and TechXpo, a Paul Bunyan Communications event, is this Saturday, April 20 at the Sanford Center in Bemidji with free admission and free gaming for all! The doors open at 10 a.m. with special guest Danielle Feinberg on the arena main stage at 2 p.m. Started in 2016, the GigaZone Gaming Championship has grown into one of the largest rural gaming events in the United States and has received national recognition. This year there w...
CROSBY - An investigation into animal cruelty, neglect and hoarding led to more than 100 cats being removed Thursday, April 11, from a Crosby home. In a news release posted Friday morning on its Facebook page, the Crosby Police Department reported about 12:15 p.m. Thursday police officers along with the assistance of the Minnesota Federated Humane Society conducted an administrative search warrant at a residence in Crosby in regard to reports of animal cruelty, animal hoarding and unsafe living...
Bemidji, MN – April 12, 2024 - Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan recently toured Bridgeman Hall, home to the Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence (Center) on the campus of Bemidji State University (BSU). During the visit, Lieutenant Governor Flanagan and her team talked with Jeremy Leffelman, executive director of the Center, to discuss two crucial grants awarded to the Center by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) to strengthen Minnesota's advanced manufacturing workforce. These grants...
St. Paul, MN: Many farmers and applicators will soon apply anhydrous ammonia (NH3) prior to planting or sidedress after planting. Even with a rush against time and the weather, safety should never be compromised. Accidents involving anhydrous ammonia have proven how dangerous and deadly the chemical can be when not handled properly. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is providing the following tips to farmers and applicators so they can safely apply anhydrous ammonia. • Always wear appropriate goggles and gloves. Never wear c...
When Alex Soto began working at the Labriola National American Indian Data Center at Arizona State University Library in 2021, he was the center's only full-time employee. Two years later, he reimagined the center into the first Indigenous-led and staffed library spaces at a research university in the United States. The newly created space for the Labriola Center officially opened on the second floor of the Hayden Library on the university's Tempe campus on April 3. Soto, who is Tohono O'odham,...
St. Paul – Today, the Minnesota Senate voted to confirm Matt Varilek as Commissioner of the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) for Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan’s second term. Varilek has served as DEED commissioner since June 2023. Before joining DEED, Commissioner Varilek was president of the Little Falls-based Initiative Foundation, and prior to that served as a senior leader at the Small Business Administration both in Washington D.C. and in Denver. Additionally, his business experience inc...
Duluth, Minn., – April 9, 2024 – Forest managers remind all motorized and non-motorized trail users to practice TREAD principles during spring trail and road use. Although the winter weather was mild, the roads and trail beds experience a freeze-thaw environment in Minnesota. Users may create deep ruts and mud holes along the trail and road systems which increase the time and expense for the Forest and trail partners who work hard year around maintaining them, as well as safety issues for use...
ST. PAUL — A proven researcher and passionate advocate has been named the first-ever director of the Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls (MMBWG) Office. Kaleena Burkes brings years of a unique blend of professional and personal experience to the Department of Public Safety (DPS). Burkes’ foundation of analytical experience combined with a commitment to collaboration will help ensure the MMBWG Office is successful in giving a voice to a group that often has gone overlooked, said DPS Commissioner Bob Jacobson. “It is not simply that Direc...
Biden's efforts to reorient U.S. foreign policy toward Asia have been interrupted repeatedly as his administration has mobilized to respond first to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and more recently to Hamas's attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's visit to Washington this week returns the spotlight to one of Biden's top foreign policy priorities: building alliances in Asia to help counter China's influence. Kishida will address a joint session of...
Nearly 30 years later, O.J. Simpson's arrest and murder trial in Los Angeles still evokes strong memories. There was the glove. The Bronco chase. The minute-by-minute national television coverage. And, for many Americans, Simpson's case will also be remembered for how it exposed the deep divisions between Black and White Americans. The nation's view of his 1995 acquittal for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a friend, Ronald Goldman, largely cleaved along racial lines, though...
A Vietnamese court sentenced a business executive to death Thursday in a multibillion-dollar fraud case as the country's ruling Communist Party seeks to crack down on corruption. A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced Truong My Lan, a 67-year-old real estate tycoon, to death on mass-scale embezzlement charges, state media reported. She received additional 20-year sentences for bribery and violating lending regulations and was ordered to pay nearly $27 million in compensatory damages. Lan,...
Gasps and sobs filled the St. Croix County, Wis., courtroom on Thursday as a jury convicted Nicolae Miu of first-degree reckless homicide for fatally stabbing 17-year-old Isaac Schuman during a 2022 confrontation at the Apple River in western Wisconsin. Miu, 54, and his attorneys lowered their heads as Judge Michael Waterman read the verdicts from the jury of six men and six women. In addition to the homicide conviction, Miu, of Prior Lake, was found guilty of four counts of reckless...
The man who exchanged gunfire with Hennepin County deputies Wednesday during a firefight that left him dead and two deputies injured was not the subject of the arrest warrant officers were there to carry out. Clint Hoyhtya, 28, was identified as the man who died during the shootout shortly before 11:30 a.m. when deputies arrived with the warrant at his home in the 13400 block of E. Crestwood Drive. But emergency dispatch audio and a law enforcement source confirm he was not named in the...
Police recovered the body of a person Thursday from a pond in Maple Grove that might be of an 18-year-old man who hasn't been seen for nearly three weeks. Officers responded around 2:20 p.m. after receiving a report of "something suspicious" in a pond near 80th Avenue N. and Lakeview Drive, according to a news release from Maple Grove police. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office water patrol recovered the body, believed to be linked to the disappearance of 18-year-old Maple Grove man Winston...
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden said Thursday that U.S. defense commitment to Pacific allies was ''ironclad'' as he gathered Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House in the midst of growing concern about provocative Chinese military action in the Indo-Pacific. The U.S. and the Philippines have had a mutual treaty in place for more than 70 years. Biden's forceful reinforcement of the American commitment comes in the midst of...
The strong comeback of lake sturgeon in Minnesota is celebrated year after year with a two-staged, statewide catch-and-release fishing season implemented in 2015. The species' survival and recovery story has been decades in the making, enabled by the Clean Water Act of 1972 and further coaxed by state and federal conservation efforts that ended commercial fishing, removed dams, stocked baby sturgeons and restored spawning areas. In the Rainy River and portions of Lake of the Woods, for example,...
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an in-depth antitrust investigation into Nippon Steel's $14.1 billion takeover of U.S. Steel, Politico reported on Wednesday citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The DOJ declined to comment, while the companies did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. The deal has faced the scrutiny of U.S. lawmakers over national security concerns, with President Joe Biden saying last month U.S. Steel must "remain an American steel company that is domestically owned and...
ST. PAUL — Interim Col. Christina Bogojevic will be the Minnesota State Patrol’s next colonel, Department of Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jacobson announced. Bogojevic has been with the State Patrol for more than 20 years and has served as second in command since December 2022. “Interim Col. Bogojevic brings a wealth of knowledge, leadership and dedication, not only to the organization, but to law enforcement as a whole,” Jacobson said. “She embodies the State Patrol’s core values and cares deeply for the people with whom she works with...
MINNEAPOLIS – An Eden Prairie woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $1 million from her employer, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, Monica Svobodny, 51, worked as the Supply Chain and Engineering Manager at a furniture manufacturing company located in Edina, Minnesota. Svobodny used her managerial position to embezzle funds and convert them to her own use and benefit. Svobodny regularly used company credit cards for unauthorized personal expenses s...
DULUTH, Minn. – A federal jury found a Wisconsin woman guilty of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. Following a three-day trial before Judge John R. Tunheim, Shue Moua, 35, was convicted yesterday on one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date. According to the evidence presented at trial, a deputy with the Carlton County Sheriff's Office executed a t...
MINNEAPOLIS – A Burnsville woman has pleaded guilty to her role in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, Hoda Ali Abdi, 53, was the owner of Alif Halal LLC ("Alif Halal"), a grocery store located in Burnsville, which she enrolled as a food vendor in the Federal Child Nutrition Program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future and S...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (April 11, 2024) – The Underground Railroad, Rosie the Riveter, and the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald all represent turning points in history, and they are among hundreds of topics that will be presented in this year’s state History Day competition. Students from around Minnesota participated in regional competitions and advanced to the state competition at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Saturday, April 20. The theme of National History Day’s 50th Anniversary is “Turning Points in History.” Students in grades 6-12 created e...
The remains of 11 Native American children who died more than a century ago at a government-run Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania will be going home to their closest living relatives this September, the U.S. Office of Army Cemeteries announced in a federal notice on April 9. Those former students include William Norkok from the Eastern Shoshone Tribe; Almeda Heavy Hair, Bishop L. Shield, and John Bull from the Gros Ventre Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community; Fanny Chargingshield,...
Fourteen tribal nations, tribal schools and colleges, and state organizations will initiate community projects to capture, preserve, and educate about the impact of the Federal Indian Boarding School era, thanks to $411,000 in funding announced by the National Endowment for the Humanities on April 10. From the early 1800s through the 1960s, federal policy supported the mass removal of hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children from their homes by supporting the operation of more than 500 India...
