A 65-year-old St. Paul man who admitted to fatally stabbing his neighbor last year during a fight, reportedly over money, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday.

Robert L. Ramsey (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

Robert L. Ramsey pleaded guilty to unintentional murder last month for the death of 70-year-old Lester Haynes in the hallway of their apartment building, off Dale Street and south of Interstate 94, on Nov. 3. At sentencing, Ramsey was given credit for 359 days already in custody.

A witness told police that Haynes had been watching football with friends when Ramsey showed up. An argument over money “turned physical and the two men tussled,” the criminal complaint said.

Hallway surveillance video showed Haynes pushed Ramsey out of his apartment and that they then grabbed hold of each other’s clothing. Haynes tried to hit Ramsey with an object, which fell to the floor after Ramsey “spun and threw” Haynes into a door across the hall from his apartment.

Ramsey held a knife with a long blade and swung at the side of Haynes’ face, making contact, the complaint said. Ramsey pushed Haynes with his left hand and used his right hand to stab the man’s left torso as he fell to the floor.

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Haynes grabbed onto Ramsey’s legs while sitting on the floor. “Ramsey repeatedly tried to stab (Haynes’) neck and upper torso with the knife, but the knife blade was no longer attached to the handle,” the complaint said.

When Haynes crawled and grabbed his fishing poles near his door, “Ramsey turned and viciously kicked” Haynes’ head and left him lying on the floor, the complaint continued.

Paramedics transported Haynes to Regions Hospital, where he was pronounced dead from the chest stab wound. A man who witnessed part of the incident later gave police the blade of a filet knife he had removed from Haynes’ body.

Police arrested Ramsey at his apartment that night. He had a Band-Aid on his thumb, “but investigators saw no other injuries to his face or neck area,” the complaint said. He did not give a statement to police.

By JIM MUSTIAN and JACK BROOK

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Immigration officials have deported a father living in Alabama to Laos despite a federal court order blocking his removal from the U.S. on the grounds he has a claim to citizenship, the man’s attorneys said Tuesday.

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U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick last week ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to keep Chanthila “Shawn” Souvannarath, 44, in the United States while he presented what the judge called his “substantial claim of U.S. citizenship,” court records show. He was born in a refugee camp in Thailand but was granted lawful permanent residence in the U.S. before his first birthday, according to court filings.

But Souvannarath on Sunday messaged his wife on WhatsApp and told her he was in Dongmakkhai, Laos, according to a screenshot she shared with The Associated Press. The message ends with “love y’all.”

“It is very unfortunate, especially for the children that we have together,” Beatrice Souvannarath told AP.

Emails, phone calls and text messages sent to ICE and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were not immediately returned.

The ACLU of Louisiana, which is representing Souvannarath, called the deportation a “stunning violation of a federal court order.” Before his deportation, Souvannarath had been detained at a newly opened ICE facility at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

“ICE just ignored a federal court order and tore yet another family apart,” said Alanah Odoms, executive director for the ACLU of Louisiana, in a statement. “This administration has shown it will ignore the courts, ignore the Constitution and ignore the law to pursue its mass deportation agenda, even if it means destroying the lives of American citizens.”

The deportation comes as Trump administration officials have repeatedly clashed with the courts over their attempts to deport large numbers of immigrants. There have been previous cases of U.S. citizens being deported, including U.S.-born children.

Chanthila Souvannarath was taken into ICE custody in June following an annual check-in with immigration authorities in Alabama, where he had been living, his wife said.

“When he went to check in, they detained him. And our two younger kids were with him,” Beatrice Souvannarath told AP. “It was the hardest two months of my life.”

He spent much of his childhood living with one or both of his parents in Hawaii, Washington state and California. His father, a native of Laos, is a naturalized U.S. citizen, and Souvannarath claims his citizenship derives from that status.

“I continuously lived in the United States since infancy,” Souvannarath wrote in a letter from immigration detention, “and I have always considered myself an American citizen.”

Souvannarath filed an emergency motion seeking to delay his deportation. Dick, the federal judge based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, issued a temporary restraining order Thursday, citing the “irreparable harm that would be caused by immediate deportation.”

“Though the government has an interest in the enforcement of its immigration laws, the potential removal of a U.S. citizen weighs heavily against the public interest,” wrote Dick, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Barack Obama. Souvannarath would be “unable to effectively litigate his case from Laos,” she added.

The court docket shows no changes in Souvannarath’s case since the judge issued the temporary restraining order, which was set to expire Nov. 6. Dick declined to through her office to comment.

Mustian reported from New York.

By KEN SWEET

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration is moving to overrule any state laws that may protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt and other debt issues.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has drafted what’s known as an interpretative rule related to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, interpreting the law in a way that says the FCRA should preempt any state laws or regulations when it comes to how debt should be reported to the credit bureaus like Experian, Equifax and Trans Union.

This repeals previous Biden-era rules and regulations that allowed states to implement their own credit reporting bans. More than a dozen states like New York and Delaware prohibit the reporting of medical debt on a consumers’ credit report.

Medical debt is often the most disputed part of a consumer’s credit report, because insurance payments can take time, and oftentimes patients do not have the means to fully pay a medical bill if insurance is not covering a procedure that has already taken place.

The three credit bureaus jointly announced in 2023 they would no longer track any medical debts below $500, which at the time the bureaus said would eliminate 70% of all medical debts reported on consumers’ credit files. But some states have gone further than that. New York, Delaware and others passed laws where medical debts can no longer be reported to the credit bureaus.

The CFPB, which is largely not operating at the moment with the exception of actively repealing previous rules written under President Biden or earlier, says in its rule that Congress intended to “create national standards for the credit reporting system” under the FCRA and state laws run afoul of that intention.

The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that Americans owe roughly $220 billion in medical debt. In Republican-controlled states like South Dakota, Mississippi, West Virginia and Georgia, roughly one in six Americans have outstanding medical debt, according to the KFF.

Having outstanding, delinquent medical debt can impact the ability for an individual to apply for a mortgage, a credit card or an auto loan.

A spokesperson for the Bureau did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Grown-up boy band 5 Seconds of Summer and metal legends Iron Maiden are the first two acts announced to play Mystic Lake Amphitheater, the new 19,000-capacity outdoor venue that will open next year in Shakopee.

Tickets for 5 Seconds of Summer’s July 22 concert go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Iron Maiden’s Sept. 19 show, which also includes Megadeth as the opener, goes on sale at 3 p.m. Friday, also through Ticketmaster.

Not to be confused with Mystic Lake Casino’s own amphitheater, Mystic Lake Amphitheater will host more than 30 concerts each summer and create 700 permanent jobs, according to Swervo Development Corp., a local firm that also transformed the Armory and Uptown Theater in Minneapolis into concert venues. Live Nation will operate the amphitheater.

Mystic Lake Amphitheater serves as an anchor tenant of Canterbury Commons, a $400 million entertainment district in development near Canterbury Park. The district is also expected to include apartments, a brewery, restaurants and an office building. Work on the 37-acre site began in July 2023.

5 Seconds of Summer

Luke Hemmings, left, and Ashton Irwin from the band 5 Seconds of Summer perform on NBC’s Today show at Rockefeller Plaza on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Formed in Australia in 2011, 5 Seconds of Summer found their first fame via YouTube and earned new fans worldwide after touring with One Direction in 2013. They stood out from the boy band pack as they played their own instruments and added elements of rock to their sound.

The band’s first three albums hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts, while their next two each reached No. 2. Their sixth album, “Everyone’s a Star,” is due out Nov. 14. They’ve previously headlined the former Xcel Energy Center several times and the Armory in 2022 and 2023.

Iron Maiden

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Iron Maiden hit No. 4 on the British charts with their self-titled 1980 debut album. They didn’t find success in the States until their third release, 1982’s “The Number of the Beast,” the group’s first with vocalist Bruce Dickinson. For the decade that followed, Iron Maiden continued to release new music and tour heavily, including a handful of shows at the old Met Center. In 1993, Dickinson left Iron Maiden for a solo career.

Six years later, Dickinson returned to the band, who went on a worldwide reunion tour that ended with a show at the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil in front of an audience of more than 250,000. In the years since, Iron Maiden has continued to find success on the road. Last October, they played the former Xcel Energy Center for the third time in front of about 15,000 fans.

Additional shows at Mystic Lake Amphitheater will be announced on a rolling basis, according to a news release.