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Ramsey County Attorney charges man who allegedly fired at St. Paul officers during pursuit
The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office charged a man with second degree attempted murder Wednesday after he allegedly fired a rifle multiple times at a St. Paul police officer earlier this week.
St. Paul’s all-female city council has been on the job for a year now. What have they learned? MPR News host Angela Davis talks with this historic, young and diverse group about what it’s like to be a woman in politics today.
After second trial, jury awards $3.25 million to family of man killed by St. Paul police
A federal jury on Monday awarded $3.25 million to the mother of a man killed by St. Paul police in 2017. Kim Handy Jones, the mother of Cordale Handy, opted for a second trial in her civil suit after a judge sharply reduced the initial verdict.
Second trial starts in suit over St. Paul police killing
In 2023, a jury awarded Kim Handy Jones $1.5 million in punitive damages plus $10 million in compensatory damages after finding St. Paul Police Officer Nathaniel Younce civilly liable for fatally shooting her son Cordale Handy.
Residents of condemned St. Paul apartment suddenly displaced again
Former residents of St. Paul’s Lowry Building apartments have been suddenly displaced twice in the last month — once when the troubled building was condemned, and again this week when their temporary housing ended.