Minneapolis police often mishandled officer discipline cases, external report finds

The man who killed former DFL House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark faces sentencing next month. Vance Boelter pleaded guilty two weeks ago to federal murder, stalking and firearms charges.

A group of workers at the Amazon warehouse in Shakopee protested outside of the facility Wednesday, the second day of Amazon's Prime Day Sale.

A report released this week found that Minneapolis police often mishandled officer discipline cases. The report was issued by a group responsible for monitoring the policing agreement between the city of Minneapolis and the state’s human rights department. It found that officers often underwent a process called coaching when they should have been subject to required discipline.

The Minneapolis City Council is scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to repeal the city’s longstanding ban on adult bathhouses. Council member Jason Chavez said if the vote passes, it will be the beginning of a long process of creating infrastructure and guidelines for a future bathhouse.

Hunger relief nonprofits are feeling the pain from high gas prices. While demand for assistance from food shelves continues to rise across the state, rising costs for nonprofits makes it more difficult for them to meet that demand.

If you use light rail transit in the Twin Cities — prepare for major changes starting next week, with buses replacing trains. That will affect the entirety of Metro Transit’s Blue Line linking downtown Minneapolis to the airport and the Mall of America from Monday through Aug. 19.

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