What's next for residents caught in the middle of Minnesota group home scandals

Hennepin County case workers are moving quickly to find new homes for residents displaced from five group homes last week. The facilities are caught up in two scandals, with some linked to a sex trafficking ring and others tied to a high-ranking Liberian government official.

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    An alliance of churches involved in a February injunction filed a motion asking U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to order the government to explain why it shouldn’t be held in contempt for violating the injunction.

  • Beloved ‘Info Booth Ladies’ brace for first Minnesota State Fair since member’s death

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    Since 2021, Kristen Donaldson, Margie McCarron and Kathy Riewe have hosted “Info Booth Ladies,” the unofficial Minnesota State Fair podcast. Since Riewe died this spring, Donaldson and McCarron are deciding how to do the fair without her.

  • For these goats in Minnesota parks, invasive plants are on the menu

    As you may have seen — and heard — in your neighborhood, goats have been hired by cities or private landowners across Minnesota for years now, to help control invasive species such as buckthorn. Research shows they can bring added benefits to the landscape.

  • St. Paul’s east side set to lose public library in mayor’s proposed budget cuts

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    St. Paul News

    St. Paul Mayor Kaholy Her's proposed budget would shut down Dayton’s Bluff library on the city’s east side. Maree Lee and Kmari Watson come to the library almost every day and consider it a second home. They don’t know where they’ll go without it.

  • Historic Kern Bridge, now refurbished, to be installed at new location in Mankato

    The historic, 189-foot-long Kern Bridge, was lifted off its crumbling abutments along the Le Sueur River nearly six years ago with two heavy cranes. It had spanned the river south of Mankato since it was built in 1873, only fifteen years after Minnesota became a state.

  • Teachers call for Target boycott over ICE response

    A union is urging parents and teachers to do back-to-school shopping elsewhere, citing Target’s decision not to call for an end to the surge of federal agents to the Twin Cities earlier this year.

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