MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided Tuesday to consider two challenges to a 175-year-old law that conservatives maintain bans abortion without letting the cases wind through lower courts. Abortion advocates stand an excellent chance of prevailing in … Continued
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE The man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie rejected a plea deal Tuesday that would have shortened his state prison term but exposed him to a federal terrorism-related charge, the suspect’s lawyer said. Hadi Matar, 26, has … Continued
A man died after he was found shot in a yard of a home in St. Paul’s Payne-Phalen area Monday night, police said. Someone called officers just before 8:30 p.m. to a home in the 800 block of York Avenue … Continued
Given the area’s poor infrastructure, heavy flooding along the Mississippi River in 1952 swept through homes and nearly devastated the Mexican-American community that lived between what is now roughly U.S. 52 and Robert Street, along the St Paul’s West Side … Continued
CRANE LAKE, Minn. — Authorities are investigating the death of a scuba diver during a salvage operation on Crane Lake in northern Minnesota. The 50-year-old man from the town of Embarrass was assisting a group of people Sunday in recovering … Continued