Tag Archives: Minnesota

Derek Chauvin’s Lawyer Seeks Delay, Change Of Venue

Minneapolis’s CBS News affiliate reports: Judge Peter Cahill says he will call back the seven seated jurors so that they can be questioned in light of the the City of Minneapolis’ $27 million civil settlement with George Floyd’s family. In a motions hearing Monday morning, Eric Nelson, the attorney for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, said the defense found …

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Minneapolis To Pay George Floyd’s Family $27 Million

Minneapolis’s Fox News affiliate reports: The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a $27 million settlement Friday in the civil lawsuit brought by the family of George Floyd. The vote was 13-0. The settlement includes $500,000 to be spent on community efforts near the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, which has become known as George Floyd Square. The civil …

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MyPillow Lawyer To Make Second Run For MN AG

Axios reports: Republican Doug Wardlow is officially launching his second bid for Minnesota attorney general, Axios has learned. Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Democrat, edged out Wardlow by four percentage points in 2018 — the closest margin of any statewide race on the ballot that year. Wardlow focused on heavily on law and order in an announcement video released Wednesday. …

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Suspect In Minnesota Mass Shooting Made Threats Of Revenge After Being Refused Prescriptions For Opioids

NBC News reports: The suspected gunman in a shooting at a Minnesota health clinic that left one person dead and three critically injured on Tuesday allegedly threatened to attack medical facilities in 2018, according to police records. In October 2018, Gregory Paul Ulrich called his doctor three times and made threats involving “shooting, blowing things up, and practicing different scenarios …

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Suspect Identified In Minnesota Mass Shooting [VIDEO]

Minneapolis’s CBS News affiliate reports: A suspect is in custody and multiple people are injured following a shooting at an Allina Health Clinic in Buffalo Tuesday morning. WCCO-TV has confirmed the suspect is Gregory Ulrich, 67, of Buffalo. He is currently in custody in the Wright County Jail. According to Wright County Sheriff’s Office officials, they received at 10:54 a.m. …

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Five Wounded In Mass Shooting At Minnesota Clinic

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: Gunshots erupted at a health clinic in Wright County late Tuesday morning followed by a bomb exploding, and at least five people were reported to be wounded by the gunfire. The scene is the Allina Health Clinic in Buffalo on Crossroads Campus Drive, according to police, who were called there about 10:55 a.m. Up to five …

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MyPillow Nutbag “90-95%” Sure He’ll Run For MN Gov

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: A personal friend of Trump’s, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has openly mulled a gubernatorial bid. Several members of Congress and the Legislature are testing the waters after spending the past year bashing Walz’s measures to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. And an ex-Minnesota Viking is considering a play for chief executive, too. Lindell told the Star Tribune …

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Covidiot GOP Minnesota State Senator Dies Of COVID

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: State Sen. Jerry Relph, R-St. Cloud, has died of complications related to COVID-19, the first Minnesota lawmaker to succumb to the virus. Relph, 76, was among a number of Republican legislators who contracted COVID-19 after contact with colleagues in mid-November. At the time, Rachel Aplikowski, the Senate GOP spokeswoman, said Relph tested positive after having had …

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MN Supreme Court Boots Bid To Delay Certification

The Minnesota Lawyer reports: About two hours before the State Canvassing Board met Tuesday, a group of petitioners led by GOP congressional Tyler Kistner filed suit to block the board from certifying the 2020 election results. The suit, which includes sitting Republican legislators Rich Draheim, Steve Drazkowski, Jeremy Munson, Tim Miller and Cal Bahr among its plaintiffs, failed in that …

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MN Gov To Close Bars And Restaurants For Four Weeks

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: Gov. Tim Walz will impose new restrictions on bars, restaurants and fitness centers starting Friday, closing them down to the public for four weeks as COVID-19 cases surge across the state. Bars and restaurants will still be allowed to offer takeout services during that time. The new restrictions will also include a temporary pause on youth …

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Minnesota GOP Hid COVID Outbreak From Democrats

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: A day after it was revealed that GOP state Sen. Dave Senjem [photo] tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a Nov. 5 party caucus, news broke that Republican senators and staffers were informed in a Tuesday memo that “a number of [GOP Senate] members and staff have been diagnosed with COVID-19.” DFLers were not informed …

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Minnesota Trump Cultist Faces 15 Years In Prison After Golf Club Attack On Elderly Biden Supporters [VIDEO]

Minneapolis’s CBS News affiliate reports: A Twin Cities man who identified himself to authorities as a supporter of President Donald Trump is accused of attacking an elderly couple with a golf club over the weekend after he saw them standing at a street corner with a homemade Joe Biden sign. Fifty-year-old Mark Anthony Ulsaker, of Lino Lakes, is charged with …

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Associated Press Projects Biden Will Win Minnesota

Bloomberg News reports: Democratic challenger Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in Minnesota, the Associated Press projected, as voters rejected the incumbent’s law-and-order pitch that was a counter to Black Lives Matter protests. Trump’s campaign had targeted the traditionally Democratic state, where George Floyd was killed by police in May. Minnesota accounts for 10 Electoral College votes. Nationwide, 270 votes …

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MN GOP: Counting Every Ballot “Dilutes” Our Vote

The Washington Post reports: Under a federal appeals court panel decision issued Thursday evening, Minnesotans must return mail-in ballots by Tuesday to ensure they are counted, upending plans the state had advertised to keep counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day for another week. The case was brought by Republican state Rep. Eric Lucero [photo] and Minnesota GOP activist James …

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Trump Gives Shortest Rally Speech Due To Small Crowd

The Independent reports: As Minnesota reached its highest-ever single-day coronavirus case count, Donald Trump attacked the state’s governor Tim Walz for limiting his campaign rally attendance before a brief campaign speech to the roughly 250 people in attendance. “All because the governor wants to play games,” the president said before shaking hands and tossing campaign hats to supporters in an …

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Voicemail Reveals GOP Recruited Third Party Candidate To “Pull Away” Votes From MN Dem House Incumbent

The Minneapolis StarTribune reports: Four months before Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate Adam Weeks died in September, sending the pivotal Second Congressional District race into a legal tailspin, he told a close friend that he had been recruited by Republicans to draw votes away from Democrats. In a May 20 voicemail message provided to the Star Tribune, Weeks told a …

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MN GOP Senate Candidate Rushed To ER For Surgery

CNBC reports: Minnesota Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis was rushed into emergency surgery Monday for a severe internal hernia, just eight days before the election, his campaign announced. The condition is life-threatening if not treated quickly, the campaign said in a statement. Lewis, a one-term former congressman best known to Minnesota voters from his days as a conservative talk …

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GOP Loses Bid To Limit MN Count Of Absentee Ballots

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge has upheld a Minnesota state court agreement that allows the counting of absentee ballots received up to seven days after Election Day. Republicans had asked U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel to block the seven-day extension that said ballots postmarked on or before Election Day must be counted. Brasel ruled late Sunday night that …

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Nine COVID Cases Traced To Minnesota Trump Rally

The Duluth News Tribune reports: Minnesota’s current COVID-19 surge shows no signs of slowing. The Health Department on Friday, Oct. 9, reported another 1,401 newly confirmed cases and 14 more deaths. Hospitalization rates continue to trend upward. They follow a stretch of more than a week when average new daily case counts topped 1,000. The trend line of active COVID-19 …

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MN Steakhouse Workers Quarantine After Trump Visit

CBC News reports: Thirteen workers at a Minneapolis steakhouse were quarantining after the restaurant catered a private fundraiser attended by President Donald Trump during his visit to Minnesota last week, the restaurant said Monday. The food workers are employed by Murray’s Restaurant in downtown Minneapolis, which catered the fundraiser on Wednesday at the Lake Minnetonka home of Marty Davis, CEO …

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