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Jason Andersen, the police officer who shot and killed Fong Lee (pictured), has been fired by the Minneapolis Police Department. The development comes after the fourth-year officer was arrested following a domestic disturbance in June. A criminal charge against Anderson was dismissed two weeks ago, but apparently the incident prompted an internal affairs investigation that [...]

Looking back, former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman says, “I don’t think we’ll ever know who got more votes” in his 312-vote loss to Sen. Al Franken. Now he’s heading up what he calls a “do tank” (as opposed to think tank), modeled in part on Wellstone Action but seeking “more mainstream, majority-based solutions.”

Minneapolis police removed Rosemary Williams from the home she owned for nearly three decades on Friday afternoon. The 60-year-old grandmother had vowed to stay in the residence on the 3100 block of Clinton Avenue even after the home went into foreclosure and sheriff’s deputies evicted her last month. She almost immediately re-entered the property and continued to live there. In a confrontation with police, Williams was again evicted and seven protesters were arrested.

The death panels at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) work slowly. News that the FEC had dismissed a complaint against former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman’s re-election campaign finally reached the public yesterday — nine months after it was filed and six weeks after commissioners decided to put it out of its misery.

From the outset, the long-running legal dispute over the radio station now known as Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current featured intimacies and conflicts that verged on the familial. Some of the people upset by St. Olaf College’s sale of the former WCAL-FM to MPR are St. Olaf alums (also known as Oles), and some of [...]

The high court’s decision in a case about an anti-Hillary Clinton documentary could carry broad implications.

Lawyers for each side called the other’s case “absurd” in a court hearing Thursday into whether the Minneapolis City Council was out of line when it denied a place on the November ballot to a charter amendment that would make the city’s park board more independent. At stake is greater autonomy for the parks to levy taxes that backers say would get them off a path to financial — and possibly existential — ruin.

Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan was briefed Wednesday on the ongoing investigation into the now defunct Metro Gang Strike Force. Apparently the news was not good. In a statement released afterwards Dolan acknowledged that seven Minneapolis cops are implicated in the probe.

Vain Mainstream just wanted to get to work. The 23-year-old Minneapolis resident was employed by Avalon Security on the opening day of the Republican National Convention last September. His assignment: to keep watch over a parking lot in downtown St. Paul and make sure that the thousands of protesters coursing through the streets of the city didn’t do any damage. Instead, he was swept up by police and detained in jail for three days. Now he’s among 27 plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit filed against police today.

A battle royale within Minneapolis government escalated Friday when the park board’s lawyer, acting on behalf of a citizens group, filed a lawsuit against the City of Minneapolis. The suit asks a judge to force the city council to allow a referendum on the November ballot that if passed would give the park board new tax-levying autonomy.