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BREAKING: Federal judge sentences Derek Chauvin to more than 20 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, excessive force against a Minneapolis teen three years prior. Story to follow on startribune.com.
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Democrats in Minnesota House stayed quiet about their bill to legalize edibles containing certain amounts of THC to give it a better chance of passing GOP-controlled Senate, House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler said.
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Derek Chauvin's federal sentencing scheduled for Thursday
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Just in: Derek Chauvin will be sentenced in federal civil rights cases stemming from death of George Floyd and previous case involving a teen on Thursday at 2 p.m. in St. Paul.
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NEW: President Joe Biden said he would support changing the Senate filibuster rules, which require 60 votes to pass most legislation, to allow bringing a bill extending nationwide abortion protections to pass by simple majority. startribune.com/biden-says-he-
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Lino Lakes man indicted on gun, drug charges after allegedly torturing a man over drug debt
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An inmate who was sentenced in 2018 to 26 years in prison for distributing large quantities of meth in the Rochester area has received an additional 29 year for running a drug trafficking operation from behind bars.
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BREAKING: Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor is released from custody.
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BREAKING: President Joe Biden has signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings.
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An early version of today's local story:
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1/ Twin Cities Pride, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, has grown from a few dozen people marching down Nicollet Mall to some 400,000 people filling downtown Minneapolis.
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Federal judge denies Dairy Queen damages over Blizzard name
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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion.
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade case, ending nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion.
Bans are expected in roughly half the states. apne.ws/LjY3m25
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More than two dozen former employees have brought federal lawsuits against Mayo Clinic over COVID-19 vaccine mandate terminations, reports.
NEW: The Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement officers can't be sued when they violate the rights of criminal suspects by failing to provide the familiar Miranda warning before questioning them.
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ALSO: The Supreme Court gave Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win in an ongoing fight over the state's latest photo identification voting law.
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NEW: The Supreme Court struck down a restrictive New York gun law in a major ruling for gun rights.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major ruling for gun rights, Supreme Court strikes down restrictive New York gun law.
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A 60-year-old longtime felon has admitted to unleashing a string of threats last summer to kill "all the judges, clerks and deputies" among other public employees in Hennepin County.
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Accused sex trafficker Anton Lazzaro’s attorneys say authorities listened in on privileged jail calls.
Judge agrees to move trial of two former Minneapolis officers to October in George Floyd's death startribune.com/judge-agrees-t by
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The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Monday that Minneapolis isn't employing enough police officers, setting the stage for a hearing later this month in which Mayor Jacob Frey or city attorneys will have to explain why he hasn't met the obligations.
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JUST IN: State requests much sooner start for state trial of ex-officers Thao and Kueng in George Floyd killing
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“The term “gay pride” was invented here ... That language was transformative. It is one of those things that opened the door + moved people forward.”
lucky to get to work on this oral history from ❤️ see y'all this weekend in loring park
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White nationalists and supremacists on social media platforms are using coded hashtags and innuendo to rile up thousands of followers on divisive issues that federal officials warn might drive some extremists to violently attack public places in the U.S.
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A man working as a postal worker in Eagan this week became the ninth person from Minnesota charged with participating in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Are you watching the Jan. 6 committee hearings? What are your thoughts on the hearings? And if you're not following them, why not? wants to hear from you. DM Jessie or email jessie.vanberkel@startribune.com
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As a Stillwater prison guard, Faith Rose Gratz had to help secure Minnesota's largest high-security prison. But one murder inmate knew her as "Bbygirl" and relied on her to help him distribute meth inside prison walls.
Republican lieutenant governor candidate Matt Birk used his Twitter account over the weekend to elevate a claim circulating among conservatives that DFL Gov. Tim Walz purchased a cabin in South Dakota.
Walz's campaign manager said the claim is false.
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President Joe Biden nominated Jerry Blackwell — a Minneapolis attorney who helped prosecute the state's criminal case against Derek Chauvin — to be a federal judge in Minnesota.
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Another troubling subpoena of a local journalist:
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KARE 11 TV reporter Lou Raguse is resisting efforts by the Hennepin County Attorney's Office to compel him to testify about his interview with a man charged with murder in a Hwy. 169 road-rage shooting last year. startribune.com/tv-reporter-fi
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Exclusive: About a third of the way through the 2022 primaries, voters have nominated scores of Republican candidates for state and federal office who say the 2020 election was rigged, according to a new analysis by The Washington Post.
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"Nearly 40% of law enforcement agencies around the country did not submit any data in 2021 to a newly revised FBI crime statistics collection program" themarshallproject.org/2022/06/14/wha via
It's been a privilege working on the Strib's politics & government team for & w/ (& formerly )
As always, send me your tips: smontemayor@startribune.com.
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Some news: I am returning to reporting on federal courts & law enforcement for the , starting next week. I am very eager to get back to work on a beat I so much enjoyed covering and to rejoin such a terrific team.
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Reporter dug into state employee salaries and found the top paid workers are not college presidents, nor the governor (whose salary is about $114K). Graphic lists the job titles for the top 20:
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