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KSTP
March 26, 2018
The doors to a glassy, modern new health clinic will open Monday morning in downtown Minneapolis. The Hennepin Healthcare Clinic and Specialty Center was built just across 8th Street from Hennepin County Medical Center. Both facilities are operated by Hennepin Healthcare, but the new clinic isÃâà...
Brainerd Dispatch
March 26, 2018
The NLX line would run four daily trips between Duluth and Minneapolis, where it would connect to the Midwest rail system and national Amtrak system, Loetterle said. It would include stops in Coon Rapids, Cambridge, Hinckley and Superior. The train would reach a speed of 90 miles per hour, but travelÃâà...
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
March 26, 2018
Researchers at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management are doing of a feasibility study of the idea. Dan Collison, the director of downtown partnerships for the Minneapolis Downtown Council, invited a group of downtown advocates and business people to discuss the potential program.
Minnesota Public Radio News
March 26, 2018
Homicide investigators are reviewing neighborhood surveillance video as they work to find the person responsible for a shooting that left one man dead and a juvenile injured near the Little Earth housing complex in Minneapolis. Authorities say the juvenile was taken to Hennepin County Medical CenterÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 26, 2018
In recent days, the newly refurbished, 8,000-capacity historic venue in downtown Minneapolis has announced an Irish rock twofer with the Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly on June 8; a retro-rock trifecta featuring 3 Doors Down, Collective Soul and Soul Asylum on July 26; another rocky triple headerÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 26, 2018
bony Essence Jet, an all-female troupe from Chicago, was on a roll Saturday night at the HUGE Theater, when one of its members froze. A teammate had challenged her to channel Meryl Streep's character in "The Iron Lady." Streep may have won an Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher in that film, but theÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 26, 2018
Authorities on Monday identified the woman who drowned early this month in hot tub in a downtown Minneapolis residential high-rise. The death on March 3 of Mary K. Hieb, 53, was an accident, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office. Hieb lived in Centre Village in the 400 block of S.
CBS Minnesota / WCCO
March 26, 2018
Pence is scheduled to deliver a speech at an America First Policies event on tax cuts before heading south to Minneapolis. While in Minneapolis, Pence will participate in an event for the Great America Committee called “Protect the House.” Then, on Wednesday, Pence will speak at another event forÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 26, 2018
A man is dead and a juvenile injured after a shooting early Sunday in Minneapolis, authorities said. Police responding to reports of gunfire arrived at the 2400 block of Ogema Place shortly after midnight to find two people with gunshot wounds. Alexander Misu Lagarde, 19, of Chanhassen was pronouncedÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 24, 2018
On multiple occasions between Sept. 14, 2017, and Nov. 27, 2017, Coupe and Fleming traveled from Wisconsin to Minneapolis, where they met with G.T. and transferred the guns to him. The guns purchased include a Mossberg Tactical rifle, two 9 mm pistols, a .22 caliber pistol, and a .40 caliber pistol.
KMSP-TV
March 24, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - The state's largest city is considering increasing the age to buy tobacco products up to 21 years old. Friday, Minneapolis city council members Andrew Johnson and Jeremiah Ellison introduced a motion to increase the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21 yearsÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 24, 2018
The ice is nothing but slush now, but Phil Malkerson's fight with Minneapolis City Hall over his front-yard hockey rink isn't going away just yet. Malkerson put the winter rink in the front yard of his corner lot in the Lynnhurst neighborhood because it wouldn't fit among the towering oak trees in his backyard.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 24, 2018
With the lights turned off and production posters gone, it was easy to imagine the empty former community theater as a blank commercial canvas. Dan Collison looked around the vacant space in the City Center building in Minneapolis with an eye for what it could become. “This is a sweet place,” he said.
Minnesota Public Radio News
March 23, 2018
The plan, developed primarily by the city's Community Planning and Economic Development department, focuses on Minneapolis becoming much more urban, with denser housing and more public transit, to meet the needs of the 700,000 additional people the Metropolitan Council projects will call theÃâà...
MinnPost
March 23, 2018
After one element of a proposed update of Minneapolis' comprehensive plan led to an unscripted, hair-on-fire introduction to the public, city officials are looking for less drama with the official roll out of the plan. Presented to the city planning commission Thursday afternoon, the update is meant to guide cityÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 23, 2018
The Minneapolis City Council on Friday reappointed Susan Segal as city attorney on a vote of 10-1, ending what has been a drawn-out confirmation process for the 10-year veteran as the chief legal authority at City Hall. Segal was nominated for reappointment by Mayor Jacob Frey in early February, butÃâà...
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
March 23, 2018
A historic "Harry Potter house" in downtown Minneapolis is back on the market after plans for a brewery at the site fell through. The Star Tribune reports that the home is for sale for $2.99 million. The building owner, Jeffrey Arundel, re-listed the home early this year. The area is zoned for residential, so theÃâà...
CBS Minnesota / WCCO
March 23, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A new proposed plan aims to make Minneapolis taller, greener and more equitable. Minnesota Public Radio reports that officials released the first draft of the Minneapolis 2040 plan Thursday. It has policy recommendations about housing, transportation, economic development,Ãâà...
NPR
March 21, 2018
Minneapolis Officer Faces Murder, Manslaughter Charges In Shooting Of Unarmed Woman ... A Minneapolis police officer is charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the case of an unarmed Australian woman who was shot and killed after calling 911 to report a possible crime.
Bismarck Tribune
March 15, 2018
FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2017 file photo, Law enforcement officials investigate an explosion at the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minn. Federal authorities said Tuesday, March 13, 2018, they have charged three men from rural central Illinois with the bombing of a Minnesota mosque last yearÃâà...
Minnesota Monthly (blog)
March 15, 2018
... this fundraiser support the Junior League of Minneapolis' community projects, which are focused on addressing the underlying issues that contribute to the achievement gap in Minneapolis. More information on our projects can be found at https://www.jlminneapolis.org/how-we-help/community-projects/
Multi-Housing News
March 15, 2018
based company has bought Minneapolis Grand, a 112-unit community in Minneapolis. Built in 2005, the property comprises two four-story buildings located at 2401 S. Chicago Ave. and features a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom units with an average size of 833 square feet. The asset was previouslyÃâà...
KSTP.com
March 15, 2018
Marcus Mills is one of those faces. And he's a member of the city's neighborhood and community engagement commission. The city stresses diversity's importance when it comes to the makeup of boards and commissions. But officials admit it hasn't always been this way.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 15, 2018
A late Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board commissioner and the newly named park that bears her name will be celebrated Saturday morning. Earlier this month, the board renamed a portion of Riverside Park after Annie Young, a beloved, long-serving commissioner who died in January. The ParkÃâà...
KSTP.com
March 15, 2018
An Alaska Airlines pilot is suing the company under Washington state's anti-discrimination law, saying its response was inadequate after she says she was drugged and raped by a colleague during a stopover in Minneapolis last June. The Seattle Times reports that Betty Pina filed the lawsuit Wednesday inÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 15, 2018
New housing projects that make Minneapolis more densely populated almost always run into vocal opposition from neighbors who can fill a meeting room with people complaining about parking and traffic. As the City Council prepares to unveil a draft comprehensive plan next week, Neighbors for MoreÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 15, 2018
A Minneapolis man was convicted Wednesday in the reckless driving death of his girlfriend, a University of St. Thomas student from Eden Prairie. A Hennepin County District Court jury found 21-year-old Michael Laurence Campbell guilty of two counts of criminal vehicular homicide and one count of leavingÃâà...
MinnPost
March 14, 2018
In a room full of people who make a living in the development business, it might have been the most provocative thing Portland architect-developer Kevin Cavenaugh said. In 25 years, he predicted, people will look at five-over-one apartment buildings the same way we look at strip malls today: not veryÃâà...
MinnPost
March 14, 2018
On notice. The Star Tribune's Andy Mannix reports: “The city of Minneapolis has cited more than 60 employers since July for failing to abide by a new ordinance that guarantees workers an allotment of sick days without retribution from management. … The infractions range from minor oversights — such asÃâà...
KSTP.com
March 8, 2018
Larry Umphrey, the director of recreation centers and programs for the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, said the Northeast Recreation Center was built to benefit those of all ages in the neighborhood. He said the center cost $4.75 million. The grand opening is scheduled for Saturday. And whileÃâà...
City Pages
March 8, 2018
Minneapolis resident Conrrado Cruz Perez, 47, faces two counts of "adulterating a substance with bodily fluids" for behavior he allegedly perpetrated while employed as a baker at a Perkins in suburban Vadnais Heights, the Pioneer Press reports. Minnesota law allows that crime to be prosecuted as aÃâà...
Finance and Commerce
March 8, 2018
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 8, 2018
Once through security, I like how easily I can grab a lip balm at Kiehl's, in the MSP Mall (the official name for the row of stores and restaurants inside Terminal 1 at Minneapolis- St. Paul International Airport). Friends have raved about the coal-fired pizza at Black Sheep, also at the MSP Mall. Others get a treatÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 8, 2018
To relieve a worsening shortage of housing, Minneapolis planners have suggested allowing the construction of four-unit apartment buildings in virtually any neighborhood. City Council members have been briefed on the plan, which could transform vast swaths of the city now limited to single-family homes.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 8, 2018
David Joles, Star Tribune Benjamin Love, 46, leaves the courtroom after being sentenced to the maximum 288 months or 24 years by Judge Jay Quam Thursday, March 8, 2018, at the Hennepin County Government Center Courtroom in Minneapolis, MN. Love earlier plead guilty to second-degreeÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 7, 2018
Plans advanced for a proposed passenger rail line between Minneapolis and Duluth this week after federal regulators determined it will not significantly affect the environment along its 152-mile route. Now, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) will try to identify federal and state sources toÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 7, 2018
A luxury residential condominium tower is planned for Minneapolis in 2020 and will feature views of the Mississippi River, Stone Arch Bridge and Gold Medal Park. The 39-story glass building will be named “Eleven” and located near 1101 West River Parkway. Co-developers, Luigi Bernardi and Ryan Cos.
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 7, 2018
Upset that the woman had turned down his romantic advances, a Minneapolis man urinated in his co-worker's water bottle, authorities say. Conrrado Cruz Perez, 47, was charged with two counts of adulterating a substance with bodily fluids, according to the criminal complaint filed against him in RamseyÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 2, 2018
Welcome to March and Women's History Month – a thing, in case you haven't paid attention, since the 1980s. We can't think of many better ways to celebrate than licking up a scoop or six of your favorite ice creams at Milkjam Creamery, which have all been renamed for strong female role models this monthÃâà...
MinnPost
March 2, 2018
As the third largest school district in the state — and one that's serving an incredibly diverse student body — the Minneapolis Public Schools district has been at the forefront of this work. And, at first glance, the district's efforts appear to be paying off. At Tuesday evening's board meeting, the district human resources staffÃâà...
KSTP.com
March 2, 2018
"Small businesses make up the economic engine of our city," Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said in a statement. "The new Minneapolis Small Business Portal reflects our commitment to giving Minneapolis small business owners and entrepreneurs the resources they need to compete and succeed.".
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 2, 2018
Interstate 35W south of downtown Minneapolis will be closed over the weekend as crews demolish a bridge. The freeway will be shut down in both directions between Interstate 94 and Minnesota 62, beginning 10 p.m. Friday and ending by 5 a.m. Monday, according to the Minnesota Department ofÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 2, 2018
A Minneapolis nonprofit is accusing the state of unfairly withholding $1.7 million for minority employment services, after a financial review found problems with the nonprofit's record-keeping practices with the grant. Emerge Community Development filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Department ofÃâà...
KSTP.com
March 2, 2018
Some Minneapolis residents near the Uptown neighborhood have questions about the city's police crime alert program. This comes after they learned this week that a man and two teenagers were charged with robbing, kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman outside her Uptown apartment lastÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 2, 2018
A minister and former college professor was charged Thursday with being drunk when he drove the wrong way on a Brooklyn Park highway and killed a motorist in a head-on crash as she traveled to her job as a Minneapolis 911 dispatcher. Richard J.M. Shaka, 72, of Blaine, was charged in HennepinÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 2, 2018
A man accused of fatally stabbing a St. Paul woman in a downtown Minneapolis parking ramp during a robbery last summer has pleaded guilty in Hennepin County District Court. Forty-six-year-old Benjamin Love pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree unintentional murder and three other counts in theÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 1, 2018
A Hennepin County district judge ruled that the city of Minneapolis' $15 minimum wage ordinance is valid, ending the first major legal challenge of the plan since it passed in June. Graco Inc. was the only remaining plaintiff in the lawsuit, which was filed in November and sought a temporary injunction toÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
February 28, 2018
Staff and students were evacuated from a Minneapolis high school Tuesday afternoon when an apparent gunman ran into the building, according to the school district and police. According to police, officers were summoned around 3:30 p.m. when a male, possibly armed, was seen trying to board a MetroÃâà...
