Minnesota

U.S. 09/10/21, 01:12

With the help of a bail fund praised by Vice President Kamala Harris, a man recently jailed for murder was released on a domestic abuse charge.During the 2020 presidential campaign, Harris seized on the nation's violent racial riots, pushing her 18.8 million Twitter followers to donate to the Minnesota Freedom ...

U.S. 08/26/21, 23:32

Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest living man in the United States, who was born in Ukraine, died of heart disease on Friday Aug. 20, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, according to his family. Svetlana Vovkovinska, a Mayo Clinic ICU nurse, announced his death on Facebook. Vovkovinskiy sought therapy at the ...

U.S. 07/27/21, 17:53

A Minnesota school asked students to complete an equity survey and hide it from their parents, creating discomfort for students, alphanewsmn reported. During a Stephen District school board meeting held Monday, July 19, in Sartell, a Sartell-St. Paul School student spoke about an equity survey she had to complete and how ...

U.S. 06/23/21, 02:53

A 9-year-old girl's complaints to her Minnesota school board about Black Lives Matter posters remaining up despite the school district's policy of "no politics" is garnering national attention after she told the board, "I do not care or look at the color of skin, but you make me think about ...

U.S. 05/31/21, 02:38

In a video aired last week, Rashard Turner, the founder of the Black Lives Matter branch in St. Paul, Minnesota, said that he quit the movement after he "learned the ugly truth" behind the group. Turner was born and raised in Minneapolis. When he was two years old, his father was ...

U.S. 04/20/21, 17:27

Following Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Calif)'s recent appeal for "no more police" in the aftermath of 20-year-old Daunte Wright's death following a traffic stop in Minnesota, Detroit Police Chief James Craig took aim at her. In an interview with WJBK-TV, a Fox affiliate in the Detroit area, Craig said that he would ...

U.S. 04/20/21, 02:08

Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Minnesota dropped to the knee for a moment's silence after hearing of a fatal police shooting just before taking off to march in protest.  When it became known that the carjacking suspect also fired at the police and was a white man, the mob diffused. On ...

U.S. 04/15/21, 20:59

The president of Minnesota's largest police union blasted the city's authorities for the way they handled Daunte Wright's death, blaming the 20-year-old victim for his tragic end. Brian Peters, the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association executive director told WCCO news talk radio on Wednesday that, "This is going to be ...

U.S. 04/11/21, 05:15

A Minnesota business owner refuses to remove a "Trump 2020" flag even though he may face a fine or even "go to jail" for violating a city ordinance. Jay Johnson of Buffalo, near Minneapolis, is flying the custom-made flag atop a crane at his construction company. "It looks small because it's 150 ...

U.S. 10/31/20, 12:42

A large group of President Donald Trump supporters drowned out Joe Biden’s drive-in campaign rally in Minnesota on Friday night, Oct. 30, prompting the Democratic presidential candidate to lash out at them as "ugly folks." Photojournalist Rebecca Brannon shared a sequence of videos on Twitter, describing Biden holding the rally in a “vast ...

2022 Campaign 08/17/20, 20:35

In a speech on Monday, Aug. 17, President Trump pledged to give tax incentives to companies that bring their manufacturing back from China to the United States. It's part of his plan to reduce dependence on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and create a more robust domestic industry, Fox News ...

World 01/23/20, 09:17

A University of Minnesota student was arrested in China and sentenced to six months in prison for a series of tweets he posted while in the United States, according to a Chinese court document, reviewed by the Axios website. Some of the detained student's tweets contained cartoon images and text that ...

U.S. 12/05/19, 18:17

Three soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard were killed Thursday when the Black Hawk helicopter they were riding in for a routine maintenance test flight crashed in a farm field in central Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz confirmed. The identities of the soldiers were not immediately released, pending notification of family. The crash ...

U.S. 11/30/19, 13:56

Wintry weather bedeviled Thanksgiving weekend travelers across the United States Saturday as a powerful and dangerous storm moved eastward, dumping heavy snow from parts of California to the northern Midwest and inundating other areas with rain. Authorities found the bodies of two young children, including a 5-year-old boy, and a third ...

U.S. 11/27/19, 11:59

A day after bringing havoc to the Rocky Mountains, a powerful winter storm rolled across the Midwest on Wednesday, threatening to scramble Thanksgiving plans for millions of people during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. The storm, which was blamed for one death and hundreds of canceled flights, ...

U.S. 11/26/19, 10:50

A storm dumping heavy snow buried highways in Colorado and Wyoming Tuesday, prompted school closures in Nebraska and forced more than 1,000 travelers to sleep overnight in Denver’s airport after hundreds of flights were canceled as the busy Thanksgiving week travel period went into high gear. That storm was heading toward ...

2022 Campaign 11/05/19, 01:55

Television hosts from a major commercial broadcaster were surprised to find voters from three states thought the president did nothing wrong, and the continuing impeachment inquiry was unnecessary on Nov. 3. A segment from "Meet the Press" on NBC News showed host Chuck Todd and National Review Editor Rich Lowry appeared ...

Politics 10/11/19, 14:27

President Donald Trump made use of his campaign rally in Minnesota on Thursday, Oct. 10, to blast House Democrats for launching the probe that he called “insane impeachment witch hunt.” “Now the Do-Nothing Democrat con artists and scammers are getting desperate. Thirteen months, they’ve got to move fast, because they’re not ...

Politics 10/11/19, 11:15

The crowd chanted “lock him up” after Eric Trump brought up the Bidens to attack ahead of his father’s speech at the campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Thursday night, Oct. 10. “How do you think Joe Biden and his—how do you think his son is feeling right now, right after ...

Politics 10/11/19, 00:54

President Donald Trump used his campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota to lash out at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), questioning how the voters could allow her to represent them in the district. During the rally on Thursday night, Oct. 10, President Trump called Omar an “America-hating socialist” who will be a big ...