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Man Who Lied In Somali Terrorism Case Gets 2 Years
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man who admitted he lied before a grand jury investigating why young Somali men were leaving Minnesota to join a terrorist group in their homeland has been sentenced to two years...
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Dahl Trucking Owner Indicted For Avoiding Paying Taxes
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The owner of Dahl Trucking in Elmore, Minn., was indicted Tuesday in federal court for avoiding payment of taxes on the wages of his employees from 2007 to 2010. Marlin Dahl was...
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Ventura Wants ‘American Sniper’ Lawsuit To Proceed
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is asking a judge to allow his defamation lawsuit against slain “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle to go forward with Kyle’s widow as the...
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Red Lake Woman Arrested, Charged With Murder
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 25-year-old Red Lake woman was arrested Sunday after being charged murder in Minneapolis Federal Court in the death of Bryan James Lussier. Alison Ann Brown has been charged with...
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Minn. Man Accused Of Stealing From ATMs
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man has been indicted on a federal charge that he stole more than $182,000 from ATMs while working as an armored truck driver. Thirty-one-year-old Christopher James...
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Minneapolis Man Gets 18-Plus Years In Pharmacy Robbery
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 31-year-old Minneapolis man was sentenced to more than 18 years in prison in Minneapolis Federal Court on Tuesday in the April 2012 armed robbery of the West 7th Pharmacy in St....
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Man Gets 30 Years For Sexual Abuse Of A Child
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for having inappropriate sexual contact with a child under the age of 12. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota said...
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Coin Dealer Sentenced To Prison For Bilking Investors Out Of $3.3M
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 53-year-old Excelsior coin dealer was sentenced Thursday in federal court for defrauding customers and investors out of more than $3.3 million. David Laurence Marion was...
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Federal Courts Stay Open If Government Closes
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The federal court in Minnesota wants you to know the judiciary will continue normal operations in the event of a government shutdown. About 800,000 federal workers could be...
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Man Accused Of Taking Army IDs To Stay In Custody
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has ordered that a Minnesota man accused of stealing identification information from members of his former Army unit will stay in custody pending trial. Keith Michael...
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Ex-Republic Airlines pilot pleads guilty to threat
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Republic Airlines pilot has pleaded guilty to threatening to torture and kill the company’s CEO and his family. The U.S. attorney’s office says 37-year-old Matthew...
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Inside The Razor Wire, Part 4: Lawmakers & The MN Sex Offender Program
The Minnesota Sex Offender Program is “clearly broken” and in need of repair. That’s according to a federal judge who ruled this month on a class action lawsuit, brought against the state, by clients...
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Ventura Heads To Court In Libel Case
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Jesse Ventura will head to federal court Tuesday morning in an effort to protect his name. The former Minnesota Governor filed suit against Navy SEAL, Chris Kyle, the author of...
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Slain Sniper Author Didn’t Fear Ventura Lawsuit
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A slain military sniper whose memoir sparked a lawsuit from former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura admitted before his death that he removed Ventura’s name from the book because he...
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Ventura’s SEAL Teammate Testifies In Defamation Trial
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Former Gov. Jesse Ventura’s old Navy SEAL teammates are marching to his defense at his defamation trial in a St Paul federal court. Ventura is suing deceased “American Sniper”...
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St. Paul Federal Judge To Rule On MN Sex Offender Case
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A case about the constitutionality of the Minnesota’s sex offender treatment program is heading to federal court. Attorney Dan Gustafson is representing 24-year-old Eric Terhaar....
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Jurors Start Considering Ventura Defamation Case
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP/WCCO) — An attorney for Jesse Ventura asked a federal jury Tuesday to award the former Minnesota governor millions of dollars in damages for what he claimed is a lie in a memoir by...
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Jury Reaches No Verdict In Ventura Defamation Case
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — There’s still no verdict as jurors try to decide whether a decorated military sniper libeled former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in his best-selling memoir. Jurors deliberated...
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Day 4 Of Deliberation In Ventura Trial Ends With No Verdict
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The jury weighing whether former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura was defamed by the author of “American Sniper” has ended the week without a verdict. Jurors are scheduled to resume...
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Jury Can’t Reach Verdict In Ventura Defamation Case
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — Monday marks day five for jury deliberations in the Jesse Ventura defamation lawsuit trial. The jury deliberated for more than 24 total hours last week, but still has not...
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Ventura Wins ‘American Sniper’ Defamation Case
Video Interview: “My Reputation Is Restored Now” ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP/WCCO) — A jury awarded former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura $1.8 million on Tuesday in his lawsuit against the estate of “American...
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What’s Next After The Ruling In The Ventura Case
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Despite Tuesday’s verdict, the widow and family of Chris Kyle have to decide if they want to continue the defamation case won by Jesse Ventura against the woman’s late husband....
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12 People Indicted In Minnesota Drug Case
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Federal authorities have indicted 12 people who they say were involved in a drug trafficking operation run out of a Spring Lake Park auto repair shop. U.S. Attorney Andy Luger...
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Federal Judge Won’t Halt Home Care Worker Union
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge has dealt another loss to opponents of a Minnesota unionization drive by refusing to halt the launch of a home-care union while a lawsuit proceeds. Federal Judge...
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NHL Seeks To Dismiss Concussion Lawsuit By Former Players
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — It’s a rough and tumble, fast and physical game played on a sheet of ice. But former National Hockey League players are engaged in another role inside the Burger Federal...
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Union Heads To Court To Get RB Adrian Peterson Back On Field
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The latest attempt by star running back Adrian Peterson to get back on the field will come in a federal courtroom. Attorneys for the NFL Players Association were scheduled to argue...
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Peterson Calls Hearing ‘Fair,’ Wants To Return To Vikings
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Adrian Peterson and his player’s union legal team went into U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Friday seeking to get his suspension overturned. The NFL handed down the...
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Patients Testify In Lawsuit Over Sex Offender Program
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — For the first time, we’re hearing from patients in Minnesota’s sex offender program. They say the state’s system of treatment is broken. It’s the second week of testimony in...
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Judge: Stun Gun Lawsuit Against Moorhead Officer Can Proceed
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge say a lawsuit can proceed against a Moorhead police officer accused of using excessive force when he used a Taser on a 75-year-old man. Officers went to the home...
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Minnesota Terror Suspect Ordered To Remain In Jail
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20150522182728910AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — One of the seven Minnesota men charged with trying to join ISIS was in a Minneapolis federal court Friday...
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MN Terror Suspect Released Following Supreme Court Ruling
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20150609183729213AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A young man who had threatened local FBI agents was set free Tuesday in part because of a U.S. Supreme court...
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Man Pleads Guilty To Concealing Bosnian War Past To Enter U.S.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man pleaded guilty Thursday to concealing his military service during the Bosnian war and a lengthy criminal history — including a conviction for shooting and killing...
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Judge Denies Bid For Quick Appeal Of Sex Offenders Ruling
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has denied an attempt by the state to get a quick appeal of his ruling that Minnesota’s program for civilly committed sex offenders is unconstitutional. U.S. District...
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Minnesota Legislators Expect Costly Fix To Sex Offender Program
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — The state of Minnesota is trying to figure out what to do with more than 700 sex offenders that a federal court ruled are being held unconstitutionally. That was the subject of...
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Convictions Upheld For Women Who Raised Funds For Al-Shabab
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal appeals court upheld the convictions and prison sentences Tuesday for two Minnesota women found guilty of conspiring to funnel money to a terror group in Somalia despite...
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Minnesota Sex Offenders’ Lawyers Pressure State For Solution
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Lawyers representing Minnesota sex offenders in a confinement program deemed unconstitutional are urging a federal judge to keep the pressure on the state to make changes. In a...
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Federal Court Declines To Overturn Union For Home-Care Workers
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel declined Thursday to overturn a new union for thousands of Minnesota personal care attendants who assist the disabled and elderly in home-based...
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Wetterling Person Of Interest Facing More Child Porn Charges
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A federal grand jury has returned a a new child pornography indictment today against the man authorities are calling a “person of interest” in the Jacob Wetterling case. This new...
View ArticleMan Charged With Bomb Threats At Airport, Mall
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal indictment accuses a 22-year-old man of making bomb threats at the Mall of America and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The indictment issued Tuesday charges...
View ArticleFederal Courthouse In Minneapolis Named After Judge Murphy
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The federal courthouse in Minneapolis is being named after a judge who is seen as a trailblazer in the Twin Cities legal community. Judge Diana Murphy was the first woman appointed...
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