
Tom Scheck
Deputy Managing Editor, Investigations at APM Reports
Deputy Managing Editor, Investigations at MPR News (Saint Paul, MN)
Investigative Reporter for APM Reports. Contributor to NPR News and Marketplace. Former reporter at MPR News. DM for signal
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1 week ago |
mprnews.org | Kate Martin |Estelle Timar-Wilcox |Tom Scheck
Brooklyn Park police are investigating a break-in at the home of slain Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. The incident, reported Wednesday morning, comes days after the Hortmans were shot and killed in their home in what authorities are calling a politically motivated attack. Police said there was an overnight break-in at the residence, which had previously been processed by investigators and boarded up.
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1 week ago |
mprnews.org | Peter Cox |Tom Scheck
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. They identified the man as Vance Luther Boelter. According to Boelter’s LinkedIn page, he is listed as the CEO of Red Lion Group, which is based in Congo, and he’s listed as a part of the leadership team at Praetorian Guard Security, which provides armed home security in the Twin Cities area.
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Nov 13, 2024 |
mprnews.org | Nina Moini |Tom Scheck |Gretchen Brown
President-elect Trump has nominated Fox News personality and Minnesota native Pete Hegseth to be his Defense Secretary. Hegseth has been a vocal backer of President Trump throughout the campaign and had been considered for cabinet positions during Trump’s first term in office. Hegseth has portrayed himself as a rock-ribbed conservative and has made some controversial statements during his time as Fox News host. “I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
mprnews.org | Dana Ferguson |Ellie Roth |Tom Scheck
The Minnesota House of Representatives appears headed for a tie. With all precincts reporting, Republicans and Democrats each have won — or are in the lead for — 67 seats. While two of those races are expected to go to recounts, leaders from both political parties are bracing for at least two years of divided government in St. Paul, following two years of Democrats holding all three levers of power at the Capitol. But the state has seen this situation play out before.
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Oct 2, 2024 |
duluthnewstribune.com | Tom Scheck |Curtis Gilbert |Caspar von Au |Forest Hunt
ST. PAUL — Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz acknowledged during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate that he was not in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests and subsequent massacre in spring 1989. APM Reports, the investigations and documentaries unit of MPR News, first reported that Walz’s claim during a 2014 congressional hearing on the 25th anniversary of the massacre didn’t square up with media accounts in 1989.
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