A new 'one-strike' policy requires deputies to check jail detainees every 30 minutes or face discipline. Since it started, fully one third of the adult detention deputies were reprimanded.
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The officer has been placed on leave, as per standard procedure.
It coincided with woman's marches in Washington, D.C. and around the U.S.
The player-turned-broadcaster was in town as the Spurs faced the Wolves.
The company has issued a recall of its "Cheddar Cheese & Bacon Grillers"
Reports say Jeffs' brother has purchased a large property in rural Cook County.
All it took was a creative status update about plowing the streets.
Pig Ate My Pizza, part of the Travail Collective, is moving into new digs.
Some impressive snowfall totals along the Interstate 90 corridor.
Bloomington police asked for help tracking her down.
The movie theater at the Apple Valley zoo will shut down on Jan. 27.
He got a high-five from the former president.
The Hennepin County Board will vote on a new policy on the public's use of government grounds on Tuesday. Under the policy, no one would be allowed to sleep outside the government center or tape up posters or signs.
While the policy doesn't officially go into effect until next week, the Southwest Journal reports sheriff's deputies were ordered to take down signs and personal items that were left unattended at Government Plaza.
The lawsuit claims jail staff prescribed a lethal dose of methadone for Cody Laganiere in 2010. The coroner's report found that the methadone was one of the factors that contributed to an accidental death. In the last year Olmsted County has settled three wrongful death lawsuits involving jail inmates.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak's policy director, Peter Wagenius, is running for a vacant state Senate seat and slammed stadium subsidies in a campaign statement Friday. Rybak initially opposed taxes or casinos as a stadium funding source, but has since proposed a citywide sales tax for a Vikings stadium in Minneapolis.
The school district's proposed policy is a response to accusations of harboring anti-gay sentiment. The measure would bar teachers from taking a stance on "controversial topics." The language of the policy is similar to the district's current one, which has some teachers calling the effort "redundant" and "unnecessary."
Authorities arrested 25 of Southeast Minnesota's most violent criminals. The warrants were for a number of violent offenses, including drive-by-shootings and drug sales. Nine government agencies, including the U.S. Marshall Service, helped make the arrests.
A longtime Stearns County Sheriff's deputy was sentenced Thursday to nine months in jail and fined more than $3,000 stemming from allegations by three minors in 2009. Phil Meekam pleaded guilty last month to one felony count of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and two gross misdemeanors for providing alcohol to minors.
A University of Wisconsin study reveals a great cure for stress: Mom's voice. Researchers found subjects that had verbal or face-to-face interaction drastically reduced tension levels. As for texts or email, the study says they fall short and are poor substitutes to simply picking up the phone.