Crime, Law and Justice

The suburban Minneapolis department on Wednesday offered a harrowing report of a police call that went from routine welfare check to people yelling for help and a man with blood on his hands looking to fight.
Minnesota sues pharma firm over 'brazen' marketing of opioid painkiller
"They were really engaging in some very terrible conduct," Attorney General Lori Swanson said of Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics. It's Minnesota's first lawsuit targeting a pharmaceutical company over its manufacture or distribution of opioids.
Supreme Court rejects appeal of restrictive abortion law in Arkansas
If the law, which heavily restricts abortion by medication, is allowed to permanently go into effect, it would likely shutter two of the state's three facilities that perform abortions.