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Report: Labor trafficking common in Minnesota’s construction industry

A Minneapolis workers’ advocacy group has compiled several dozen stories from Latino immigrants who’ve alleged exploitation and other forms of wage theft while working on construction jobs. The report comes on the heels of Hennepin County’s first-ever prosecution of a labor-trafficking case, which ended in a guilty plea last month.
by Riham Feshir

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Ramsey County settles lawsuit over hijab removal

Ramsey County settles lawsuit over hijab removal

The plaintiff will receive $120,000 for what she says was a violation of her religious beliefs. She says she hopes it will protect other Muslim women from similar treatment.
by Tim Nelson

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Fugitive sentenced to life in prison for murder

Fugitive sentenced to life in prison for murder

A Minnesota woman who led authorities on a cross-country manhunt pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Florida courtroom to fatally shooting a woman who prosecutors said was targeted because the two looked alike.
by The Associated Press

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Wisconsin man found guilty in deaths of Girl Scouts, parent

Twenty-two-year-old Colten Treu pleaded no contest Monday to four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle. Treu also pleaded guilty to hit-and-run involving great bodily harm. He earlier had pleaded not guilty in the November 2018 crash.
by The Associated Press

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Minnesota man gets probation for trying to access Trump's tax returns

Justin Hiemstra of St. Paul Park, Minn., and Andrew Harris of Philadelphia have been given two years' probation and 200 hours of community service for trying to hack the IRS to obtain President Trump's tax returns. They both pleaded guilty to federal computer fraud charges.
by The Associated Press

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Case connected to Duluth lynchings up for review

Case connected to Duluth lynchings up for review

Max Mason, 21, was convicted in 1920 of assaulting a young Duluth woman who claimed to have been assaulted by six black circus workers on June 14 of that year. The accusation led to the most infamous day in Duluth's history, when three black men were lynched by a mob of up to several thousand residents.

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Mississippi man freed months after court rules racial bias

Mississippi man freed months after court rules racial bias

Curtis Flowers walked out of the regional jail in Louisville on Monday, hours after a judge set his bond at $250,000. His case was the subject of the second season of the APM Reports podcast In The Dark.
by The Associated Press

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