Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s $6 million donation to Big Brothers Big Sisters Twin Cities is slightly larger than the Twin Cities nonprofit’s annual budget.
The Metropolitan Mosquito Control District in St. Paul began this year's surveillance of mosquitoes and black flies and found that, although there are a lot of mosquito larvae, there aren’t many adult mosquitoes out biting people.
The Minneapolis City Attorney's Office says it cannot find proof of a damning finding by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights that police used covert social media to target Black people and elected officials.
Leesa Kelly founded Memorialize the Movement nearly two years ago to save the paintings that artists created during the week of heartache and rage that followed the police murder of George Floyd.
Police shot Jaleel Stallings with a foam marking round in a Lake Street parking lot after curfew on May 30, 2020. He shot back with his handgun, but video shows that he tossed away his weapon and surrendered after realizing he’d fired at police.
The Art Hounds suggest a visit to photojournalist KingDemetrius Pendleton’s exhibit “The Movement Never Stops” at Block Portrait Studios in St. Paul. Connect with the healing powers of art and nature in J.G. Everest’s immersive Sound Garden at Riverside Park in Minneapolis. Have a laugh over “Much Ado About Nothing” by Fearless Comedy Productions, in its final weekend at the historic Mounds Theatre.
Thieves have been stealing the copper wiring in street lamps to sell to metal scrap yards. The high price of copper has hit St. Paul double over the last couple of years, both with an increase in theft and an increase in the cost of repairs.
Minnesota beat out three other states in its bid for the games. They’ll feature 15 team and individual sports, plus another five demonstration events, and attract tens of thousands of athletes, coaches, volunteers and spectators.
Mohamed Jama Ismail has been charged with one count of passport fraud, following his apprehension by FBI agents Wednesday afternoon at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport. Ismail becomes the first person arrested in connection with the ongoing federal investigation into alleged food fraud and the nonprofit Feeding Our Future. The FBI first raided Ismail’s house and seized his passport in January 2022.
A man alleged to be among the targets of an investigation into child nutrition program fraud in Minnesota is facing a federal charge of making a false statement on his passport application, according to a court document filed Thursday.