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1 week ago | 
kstp.com | Edith M. Lederer |Emily Baude
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 300 civilians were killed in two days of intense fighting in Sudan’s conflict-wracked Darfur region, the U.N. humanitarian agency reported Monday, as the African country’s brutal civil war nears the two-year mark.
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1 week ago | 
kstp.com | Larry Neumeister |Emily Baude
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal prosecutor in New York said Monday that lawyers for music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs are looking for reasons to delay a sex trafficking trial slated to start in three weeks. The latest version of the indictment against Combs, 55, added two new charges this month but he still hadn’t entered a plea, prosecutors said.
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1 week ago | 
kstp.com | Lisa Baumann |Emily Baude
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied Washington state’s request for emergency relief funds to help repair an estimated $34 million in damage from a deadly bomb cyclone storm system in November, according to Gov. Bob Ferguson. Ferguson said in a news release on Monday that the state’s January application for assistance was denied in a letter he received on Friday. The state’s application had met all of the criteria necessary to qualify, he said.
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1 week ago | 
kstp.com | Jennifer Peltz |Michael Hill |Emily Baude
NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese American scholar convicted of spying on Chinese dissidents was spared prison time Monday by a U.S. judge. Shujun Wang was sentenced by U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin to time served and three years’ supervised release, according to attorneys. Wang has been free on bail since the day of his arrest. Wang, 76, was convicted last summer of charges including conspiring to act as an illegal foreign agent.
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2 weeks ago | 
kstp.com | Emily Baude
The S&P 500 surged 9.5%, an amount that would count as a good year for the market. It had been sinking earlier in the day on worries that Trump’s trade war could drag the global economy into a recession. But then came the posting on social media that investors worldwide had been waiting and wishing for.
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2 weeks ago | 
kstp.com | Emily Baude |Emily Baude KSTP
A beautiful evening at a St. Paul soccer field nearly turned into tragedy. Police are investigating an incident in which a car drove onto a crowded field on Saturday, sending people scrambling. No one was injured. But now, police want the public’s help identifying the car and the person driving it. A TikTok video provided by St. Paul police shows the car driving right onto the soccer fields at Como Park Saturday evening.
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2 weeks ago | 
kstp.com | Emily Baude
Brooklyn Park police are looking for a missing 14-year-old girl. Katie Marie Olson was last seen at 11 a.m. near Brooklyn Boulevard going under 694, according to an alert from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Olson was wearing gray and black plaid pajama pants, a gray hoodie and white high-top shoes, the alert said. She is 5’4″ tall and 140 pounds with red hair and brown eyes. Olson does not have her medication, and there is a concern for her mental health, officials said.
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2 weeks ago | 
kstp.com | Emily Baude
A Minnesota small business owner is saying new U.S. tariffs on China could be devastating to her business. Beth Benike, the CEO of Busy Baby, which designs and manufactures baby products, just landed a deal with Walmart and Target. But now, she says she can’t afford to get her products out of China. “It’s terrifying. It can’t get more personal. This is our everything, this was our dream,” she said. Benike says U.S. tariffs on China are more than doubling her costs.
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2 weeks ago | 
mlb.com | Emily Baude
MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, MN – Giving young athletes from across Twins Territory the chance to live out their big league dreams, the Minnesota Twins today announced the club’s 2025 high school baseball series presented by TRIA Orthopedics, six prep games to be held at Target Field this spring: Byron vs. Stewartville this Saturday, April 12; Lakeville North vs. Lakeville South and Highland Park vs. St. Paul Academy/Summit School on Wednesday, April 16; Edina vs.
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3 weeks ago | 
kstp.com | Emily Baude
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners — a 34% tax on imports from China and 20% on the European Union, among others — that threaten to dismantle much of the architecture of the global economy and trigger broader trade wars.
