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Newsmaker: Loughner to be arraigned

Newsmaker: Loughner to be arraigned

Jared Loughner faces arraignment before a federal judge in Phoenix today. With all the publicity surrounding the case, can he get a fair trial?

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2 indicted in Red Lake shooting that left 1 dead

Two Redby men have been indicted in a shooting on the Red Lake Indian Reservation that left one man dead and two others injured.

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Federal appeals court to hear Petters case Feb. 17

Federal appeals court to hear Petters case Feb. 17

A federal appeals court has scheduled oral arguments for Feb. 17 in the Tom Petters case. The Wayzata businessman was accused of running a $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme.

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Police chief Scott Knight on Minn. gun control laws

To talk about Minnesota's gun control laws, MPR talked to Scott Knight, chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Firearms Committee and police chief in Chaska.
by Tom Crann

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Choi is 1st Korean-American county attorney in US

John Choi has been sworn in as Ramsey County Attorney, becoming the first Asian-American county attorney in Minnesota.

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Voting Rights in the Kennedy Years

Voting Rights in the Kennedy Years

Judge Gordon A. Martin discusses his new book "Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote," about the 1962 court case that resulted in one of the first victories for voting rights in the South. Judge Martin will be joined by Minneapolis-born John Doar, who worked for the Justice Department under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and successfully tried the case.

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Best Buy settles overcharging allegations in Conn.

Best Buy Co. Inc. has settled a Connecticut lawsuit that accused it of advertising lower prices on some items on its website than at in-store kiosks, then overcharging customers at the stores.

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Apple Valley Medical Clinic to pay state, fed

The Apple Valley Medical Clinic will pay the federal government and the state of Minnesota a total of $195,000 to settle allegations that it improperly billed Medicare and Medicaid programs for outpatient services.

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Justice pursuing antitrust leads in agribusiness, Varney says

The Justice Department is pursuing several leads on possible anti-competition cases in agribusiness after a series of hearings on the issue, according to Christine Varney, the head of the agency's antitrust division.

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Northern Minn. counties worry about losing court services

Northern Minn. counties worry about losing court services

Residents of northeastern Minnesota were rocked this fall by reports that courthouses in Lake and Cook counties could soon be shuttered, meaning that people with court business could have to drive for hours to regional trial centers in places like Duluth or Virginia. State court officials say nothing of the sort is in the works, but the rumors persist.
by Bob Kelleher

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