AFSCME Local 668, a union affiliated with AFSCME Council 5 that represents workers who provide services to the Metropolitan Council, said on Friday that members have voted to authorize a strike. A statement by AFSCME Council 5 Executive Director Bart … Continued
One of two men charged with exchanging a flurry of gunshots last year outside a White Bear Lake bar following an argument over a spilled drink has pleaded guilty to second-degree assault. Charles Edward Stevens-Thigpen, who was shot in the … Continued
A 20-year-old Granite Falls, Minn., man admitted in court Friday to choking and sexually assaulting his girlfriend in her St. Catherine University dorm room in September. Keanu Avery Labatte entered a guilty plea in Ramsey County District Court to an … Continued
With Ramsey County Board Chair Trista Martinson stepping down to take on a new role, the county will hold a special election for the District 3 seat on Feb. 11. If more than two candidates file for office, a political … Continued
“This will push an already vulnerable population deeper into hopelessness and despair, rather than offering the ‘tough love’ that might inspire them to pull themselves up by their nonexistent bootstraps.” Adi Talwar People sleeping in the street under the Brooklyn … Continued
Adam Tschorn | Los Angeles Times (TNS) As you drive through some of California’s most storied agricultural land, a few hours north of the Bay Area, you’ll zoom past fields full of plants straining under the weight of their almost-ready-to-harvest … Continued