Judge Peter Cahill Appointed To Cases Of All 4 Fired MPD Officers Involved In George Floyd's Death
Judge Peter Cahill has been assigned to oversee the cases of all four former Minneapolis Police officers involved with George Floyd's death.
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Judge Peter Cahill has been assigned to oversee the cases of all four former Minneapolis Police officers involved with George Floyd's death.
A 65-year-old man is dead after a Monday evening shooting in Shakopee.
On Friday, Minnesota lawmakers will start debating big changes that could change police departments statewide.
This coming Monday will mark 100 years since the Duluth lynchings, a dark stain on Minnesota's past. And on Friday morning, the Minnesota Board of Pardons made history: It granted the state's first posthumous pardon to Max Mason.
Authorities in northern Minnesota are investigating after a 61-year-old man was found dead Thursday near a boat landing.
On the first day of the special session, the Minnesota House of Representatives has approved millions of dollars in grants for small businesses.
A majority of city council members have already said they're in favor of defunding the Minneapolis Police Department.
A southern Minnesota representative is calling the Christopher Columbus toppling incident at the State Capitol a "lynching-like desecration of a statue."
The state's death toll is now at 1,274, with total positive cases numbering almost 30,000 since the start of the outbreak about three months ago.
Klobuchar was a prosecutor years ago in Hennepin County. During that period, more than two dozen people — mostly minorities — died during encounters with police.
Here are the latest updates in the COVID-19 pandemic.
After months of planning and consulting with students, staff and health experts, the University of Minnesota believes it can safely resume classes at all five of its campuses.
The former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd could still receive pension benefits starting in just a few years, even if he's convicted. Pension officials in Minnesota confirmed to CBS News that the ex-officer, Derek Chauvin, could collect more than $1 million in benefits over the next three decades.
Key Republican lawmakers in Minnesota said Friday that they'll block most of an ambitious effort by Democrats to remake policing in the state where George Floyd died and that they plan to approve only a limited set of police accountability measures.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says the COVID-19 pandemic is not over and on Friday extended the state's peacetime emergency through mid-July.
