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Photos: Protest shuts down I-35W
Protesters walked from south Minneapolis, blocked part of Interstate 35W and rallied at Minneapolis City Hall protesting police brutality and racism around the country Thursday afternoon.
SCOTUSblog seeks recognition from court
SCOTUSblog has gone from a failed marketing ploy designed to attract more business to a law firm, to an indispensable aid to Supreme Court reporters and lawyers.
For an abusive priest, retirement income came with a premium
The former accounting director of the Twin Cities archdiocese said recently that several accused priests receive pension payments higher than normal. Another former church official discovered them, too, over the past few years and had them stopped. The archdiocese says church law requires that offending priests must have 'financial, therapeutic and spiritual support.' The Rev. Robert Kapoun is one of them.
A law that allows state child care workers to vote on whether to form a union was temporarily blocked today by a federal appeals court.
The federal public defender's office in Minnesota is taking another big budget cut, but it's not as bad as first thought. Other public defender offices have had to cut staff after the sequester cuts kicked in.
The Minnesota Judicial Branch has created a video to make sure citizens who are deaf or hard-of-hearing have equal access in the state court system.
State attorneys general from around the country want Congress to give more power to local authorities to investigate child prostitution. Minnesota's Lori Swanson is one of 49 attorneys general who signed a letter this week to lawmakers.