Randy Furst
Reporter at The Minnesota Star Tribune
Randy Furst is a reporter at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis
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Bob Franklin, longtime Star Tribune journalist, dies at 87Bob Franklin taught journalism students and was active in Medina city affairs. And he preferred socks to shoes. Reporter Bob Franklin at his desk in the Star Tribune newsroom, 2006. (TOM SWEENEY/The Minnesota Star Tribune)Star Tribune journalist Bob Franklin loved a good yarn. There were the stories he wrote about the bachelors of Herman, Minn., who outnumbered single women by eight to one.
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2 months ago |
startribune.com | Randy Furst
In response to a Curious Minnesota inquiry, the Minnesota Star Tribune launched an investigation in late 2023 into the unsolved 1963 kidnapping and murder of Barbara Ann Foshaug and Melissa Ann Lee, and the subsequent law enforcement investigations into their deaths.
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2 months ago |
startribune.com | Randy Furst
Randy Furst is a Minnesota Star Tribune general assignment reporter covering a range of issues, including tenants rights, minority rights, American Indian rights and police accountability.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
startribune.com | Randy Furst
Minneapolis attorney Lori Peterson visited the Carters many times and remained good friends with them for more than 40 years. January 8, 2025 at 2:00PMLori Peterson visits with former president Jimmy Carter at his home in Plains, Ga. (Lori Peterson)It was an unlikely friendship: a former president of the United States and an activist Minneapolis attorney who first met in 1981 when she was a high school student and he had just lost his reelection bid in a landslide.
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Dec 6, 2024 |
startribune.com | Randy Furst
“Nobody talks and everybody walks,” one lawyer involved said about the fallout from a 2009 corruption probe. December 6, 2024 at 1:30PMMichael Campion, commissioner of the state's Department of Public Safety, shared concerns about the Metro Gang Strike Force during a meeting in 2009. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune)Listen and subscribe to our podcast: Apple Podcasts | SpotifyA scandal-ridden Twin Cities law enforcement unit called the Metro Gang Strike Force imploded 15 years ago.
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Walter Mondale had a great sense of humor. When the Star Tribune moved into a new office building in 2015, he asked me how I liked the new digs. I said I missed the old grungy newsroom. He replied, “I have confidence you’ll grunge up the new place in no time.”