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Minnesota family held hostage in $8M crypto kidnapping, Texas brothers charged

Minnesota family held hostage in $8M crypto kidnapping, Texas brothers charged

Federal prosecutors say Raymond and Isiah Garcia held a Washington County family hostage for nine hours, holding them at gunpoint and forcing them to transfer millions in cryptocurrency. The incident triggered a massive law enforcement response and led Mahtomedi Public Schools to cancel its homecoming game out of caution.
by Matt Sepic

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Authorities searching for man who escaped from work farm near Duluth; alleged accomplice arrested

Authorities searching for man who escaped from work farm near Duluth; alleged accomplice arrested

Authorities in northeastern Minnesota say they’re still looking for an inmate who walked away from a correctional facility near Duluth earlier this week — though they’re “moving from an active search to an ongoing investigation.”
by MPR News Staff

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Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle U.S. lawsuit that it 'tricked' people into Prime

Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle U.S. lawsuit that it 'tricked' people into Prime

Federal regulators say Amazon has agreed to pay a historic sum to resolve their allegations that its web designs manipulated millions of people into paying for Prime subscriptions, which were also purposefully hard to cancel. Affected shoppers are slated to receive payouts.
by Alina Selyukh

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Minneapolis mayoral candidate says his campaign office was vandalized

Minneapolis mayoral candidate says his campaign office was vandalized

Minneapolis mayoral candidate and state Sen. Omar Fateh says his campaign office was vandalized this week, with an Islamophobic message and threat graffitied on a wall.
by MPR News Staff

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A judge ruled their firings were illegal. The government got to do it anyway

A judge ruled their firings were illegal. The government got to do it anyway

A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.
by Andrea Hsu

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Feds drop hate crime charges in Belle Plaine assault, state charges remain

Feds drop hate crime charges in Belle Plaine assault, state charges remain

Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped federal hate crime charges against a white man who's accused of attacking a Black man outside a Belle Plaine bar. A state case remains active.
by Matt Sepic

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Alleged autism program scammer also charged in Feeding Our Future fraud

Alleged autism program scammer also charged in Feeding Our Future fraud

Federal prosecutors Wednesday charged the owner of a Minneapolis autism treatment clinic with stealing $14 million from a state program. Asha Farhan Hassan, 28, is the first person charged in the autism fraud investigation.
by Matt Sepic

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