2+ week, 4+ day ago   (563+ words) Criminal charges over alleged tax evasion will be dropped against Walser Automotive Group with the car dealer agreeing to pay the state $490,000. Walser, one of Minnesota’s largest car dealerships, was charged with felony tax evasion in January for allegedly participating…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (442+ words) Aimee Bock, the convicted ringleader of the massive Feeding Our Future scheme, said the U.S. government failed to prove she knew the scope of the fraud passing through her nonprofit in asking an appeals court to overturn her conviction. In a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (329+ words) A Lakeville man will spend more than six years in prison for his role in a sprawling scheme to steal money from a government program meant to feed needy children. Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir, 34, was sentenced in Minneapolis federal court on…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (479+ words) The newest defendant in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal pleaded guilty to his role in the massive scheme just over a week after his charge was filed. Mahamoud Warsame, 41, admitted in federal court in Minneapolis on Thursday that he…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1255+ words) At Vance Boelter’s sentencing, Mark Hortman’s father said Attorney General Todd Blanche did Republicans a “great disservice” in not seeking the death penalty. By Jeff Day and At Vance Boelter’s sentencing on Thursday, Mark Hortman’s father told the court the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (391+ words) The assaults spanned a number of years when the victim was 14 to 16 years old, according to the charges. A onetime Iron Range public school educator repeatedly sexually assaulted a student over two years, according to charges filed in St. Louis…...

2+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (369+ words) Abdirashid Bixi Dool helped run meal sites in Pelican Rapids and Moorhead. A man on Monday pleaded guilty in Minnesota federal court to defrauding the U.S. government, admitting that only a fraction of the federal funds he was issued were spent…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (905+ words) What is a pardon for? I have wrestled with this column for days because no sentence should ever sound like an excuse for the sexual abuse of a child. Tou Lue Vang committed a terrible crime. Nothing about his childhood…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (422+ words) Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued two Mankato residents, alleging they illegally placed rat poison blocks along a public sidewalk in an apparent attempt to stop dogs from urinating on their lawn, leading a judge to order the poison removed....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (330+ words) First, U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer declares that Somalis “don’t assimilate” and that if they don’t, they should “go the hell back to where they came from.” In response, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar writes on X: “I assimilated all the way…...