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1 week ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
LAKEVILLE, Minn. (CN) — U.S. Representative Angie Craig had a message for voters Monday evening while speaking at a local Minnesota high school: Republicans need to step up and help Democrats to stop funding cuts to large swaths of the United States' federal government. Craig hosted a town hall at Lakeville South High School, about 20 minutes south of Minneapolis, to hear residents' concerns about the Trump administration.
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4 weeks ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
The former state senator will be released to a halfway house and required to use GPS monitoring. ST. PAUL (CN) — A former Minnesota state senator charged with enticing a minor into prostitution will be released from jail after a federal judge found the prosecutor’s arguments to keep him locked up left too many unanswered questions.
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1 month ago | 
tucsonsentinel.com | Mark Wasson
Courthouse News Service Top attorneys general from across the nation addressed a raucous crowd Thursday night in Minnesota, condemning President Donald Trump’s actions since taking office.
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
"I'm not going to sit idly by and allow this government to diminish our Constitution, to diminish our freedoms, our liberty. Not now, not ever,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said one of a series of town halls hosted by Democratic attorneys general. ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Top attorneys general from across the nation addressed a raucous crowd Thursday night in Minnesota, condemning President Donald Trump’s actions since taking office.
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
ST. PAUL (CN) — A former nurse at a Minnesota jail faces manslaughter charge after prosecutors say she withheld medical care to an inmate over two days and he died. Minnesota Attorney General's Office prosecutors charged Michelle Rose Skroch, 37, with second-degree manslaughter and two counts of criminal neglect, all felonies. Her first appearance is scheduled for April 11.
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
ST. PAUL (CN) — Minnesota’s Supreme Court seemed skeptical of a man’s argument that the penalty he must pay for unemployment benefits is unconstitutional. The man, Christopher Thigpen, separated from his job at Target in March 2020. Between then and March 2022, he received unemployment benefits while working for Best Home Care as a home health aid for his grandmother. Each week he applied for benefits, he noted that he was not working, which netted him an extra $24,005 over two years.
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2 months ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — A federal judge has allowed a class action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group for denying coverage to its customers to proceed despite dismissing five out of seven counts in an opinion filed Thursday. The case, brought by several of the health insurance company’s customers who were denied benefit coverage and filed in the United States District Court of Minnesota, says UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare, and naviHealth Inc.
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2 months ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
A power-sharing agreement between Republicans and Democrats gives more power to the GOP until a special election later this month returns the House to a tie. ST. PAUL (CN) — The Minnesota House of Representatives is finally getting to work following a power-sharing agreement between Republican and Democrat-Farmer-Labor party members, which promotes Republican Representative Lisa Demuth to the position of speaker for the next two years.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
ST. PAUL (CN) — Minnesota's state House Republicans' election of a speaker with only 67 members present was unconstitutional, according to a new ruling issued Friday by the Minnesota Supreme Court. The unsigned order says justices interpreted the Minnesota Constitution to mean that "a quorum requires a majority of the total number of seats of each house" and that vacancies do not reduce the number required for the quorum.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
ST. PAUL (CN) — Whether or not Republicans currently have control of the Minnesota House of Representatives is now in the hands of the state’s Supreme Court following oral arguments Thursday by lawyers representing the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Republicans, and Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat.
