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Latino poets group Palabristas marks 20 years
Palabristas emerged in 2002 as a national poetry reading event came to town. The group’s co-founder says Latino voices were missing from it.
Judge: St. Cloud State has improved equity in sports, but work remains to meet Title IX
Six years after female athletes sued over discrimination, a federal judge ruled that the university still needs to ensure that travel and per diem is equitable for men’s and women’s teams to comply with the 1972 law.
Judge, Walz administration clash over Feeding Our Future payments
Judge John Guthmann chided Gov. Tim Walz for saying the judge had ordered state education officials to continue making payments to Feeding Our Future, the organization federal prosecutors now say defrauded taxpayers out of $250 million. The Walz administration later pushed back against Guthmann’s criticism.
Man charged in bomb threat that prompted evacuation at U of M
A 36-year-old man faces a felony charge for allegedly making a bomb threat that caused part of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus to be evacuated.
Minnesota vigils mourn Mahsa Amini, whose death sparked protests in Iran
Demonstrators plan to gather in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday to protest the death of a 22-year-old woman in Iran in police custody earlier this month. That's after a vigil for Mahsa Amini was held at the University of Minnesota on Thursday.
Most Feeding Our Future defendants avoid pretrial detention
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis says three of the suspects in the huge food program fraud case have left the country, but prosecutors still do not consider most of the others to pose a flight risk, and have not asked judges to detain them.