Weeks before the pandemic swept into Minnesota, Rico Thomas opened a ground-level ice cream shop in downtown St. Paul’s Alliance Bank Center on Wabasha Street, hopeful he’d soon be scooping cones to passersby at a rapid clip. Then the opposite … Continued
Planners and policy advisers with the Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority are still at least a summer away from deciding whether to connect downtown St. Paul’s Union Depot to the Mall of America in Bloomington by installing bus rapid transit … Continued
A former dean of nursing at St. Catherine University has been arrested and charged with embezzling more than $400,000 from the St. Paul school through bogus contracts with a healthcare consultant she was dating. Laura Jean Fero, 54, who now … Continued
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 45-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in … Continued
By MOLLY QUELL (Associated Press) THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — South Africa urged the United Nations’ top court Friday to issue more emergency measures to restrain Israel, saying its military incursion in Rafah threatens the “very survival of Palestinians in … Continued
By JIM VERTUNO (Associated Press) AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Friday that U.S. history shows c ourt decisions unpopular in their time later can become part of the “fabric of American constitutional law.” Kavanaugh spoke … Continued