Congressional Investigation Into Feeding Our Future Fraud Intensifies
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Education has come under Congressional scrutiny. In the wake of a verdict in the first federal criminal trial in the Feeding Our Future scandal and a new report from the Office of Minnesota Legislative Auditor, th...
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Downtown St. Paul office buildings are emptier than previously thought
About 610,000 square feet of vacant office space went unreported, skewing the overall picture of downtown St. Paul’s health.
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Speaker Johnson says House will go to court for Biden audio after Justice Dept. refused to prosecute
Speaker Mike Johnson says the House will go to court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Biden’s special counsel audio interview
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Minnesota Chippewa Tribe general elections have concluded, new chairperson to lead Fond du Lac Band
Several band’s incumbent candidates were reelected, while the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will have a change in leadership come July with a newly elected chairperson.
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A week of disorder in Cleveland, as City Hall remains closed after cyber threat
Cleveland’s City Hall will remained closed to the public through at least Monday, as officials in Ohio’s second-largest city continued to grapple with the effects of a ransomware attack
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Lynn Conway, microchip pioneer who overcame transgender discrimination, dies at 86
A pioneer in the design of the microchips that make modern consumer electronics possible has died
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Judge orders retrial of civil case against contractor accused of abuse at Abu Ghraib
A judge has ordered a retrial over allegations that a Virginia-based military contractor contributed to the abuse and torture of detainees at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago
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Next Stearns County Justice Center To Be Built Outside of Downtown
(KNSI) - Stearns County commissioners made progress on a new jail at a work session Friday morning. Administrator Mike Williams says the board was able to reach a consensus on relocating the facility outside of downtown St. Cloud. "So, the decis...
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Lawmakers Condemn Minnesota Department of Education for Inadequate Oversight in $250M Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme
(KNSI) - Lawmakers are furious over the recent audit of the Education Department's handling of the Feeding Our Future fraud case by the Office of the Legislative Auditor. The report showed the Minnesota Department of Education was not prepared to han...
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Vermont governor vetoes data privacy bill
Vermont’s governor has vetoed a broad data privacy bill that would have been one of the strongest in the country to crack down on companies’ use of online personal data
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