Mournful, ceremonial: Minneapolis VA memorial gathering overflows to remember Alex Pretti
Minneapolis VA hospital employees by the hundreds filled a chapel, crowded into spillover space, and peered at a livestream feed this week to mourn the loss of one of their own to gunfire from federal agents on a city street. The outpouring of grief and admiration on Tuesday, Feb. 3,...
The Women Holding Minneapolis Together
“This is a movement of women here in the Twin Cities,” says middle school teacher and content creator Mandi Jung. “That is why it can’t be put down, that is why we cannot be intimidated, that is why it cannot be stopped.”. Since Operation Metro Surge, the...
A long-term warm-up begins Sunday
Here’s your Saturday evening forecast for February 7, 2026 from Meteorologist Matt Serwe. It will be blustery along and south of I-94 tonight. Gusts over 25 mph are possible in the Twin Cities, and they could reach 30-35 mph in southwestern Minnesota. The weather headline for Sunday is the...
Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was...
MINNEAPOLIS — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured...
Man charged after wielding knife at Cottage Grove Elementary School
COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. (FOX 9) - A man was charged after he reportedly brandished a knife at Cottage Grove Elementary. Police say the man, 46-year-old Touyer Yang, was arrested on Feb. 3 after being found in the school vestibule with a large butcher knife. Officers responded to reports of Yang driving erratically in...
Ten fire departments respond to fatal fire in St. Louis Park
One person was injured, and another person was found dead after a house fire in St. Louis Park early Sunday morning. Firefighters responded to a blaze on the 3000 block of Edgewood Avenue South just after 7 a.m. "One adult individual was transported to the hospital with smoke and heat...
Uptown businesses dealing with economic impact due to ICE presence, but help is on...
For small businesses in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, it’s been an economic roller coaster.
Jay Icon And His Wife Apple Pled Guilty To Roseville Lululemon $1 Million Theft
Jamaican social media influencers Jay Icon and his wife Apple admitted in Ramsey County District Court to stealing from several Lululemon Twin Cities locations last year. The couple will be ordered to make restitution for the $1 million organized retail theft during their sentencing hearings. The hearings were...
Twin Cities Interpreter Admits Role In ‘Phantom Rides’ Medicaid Hustle
A Minneapolis interpreter has admitted she helped siphon hundreds of thousands of dollars from Minnesota's Medicaid program in a long‑running “phantom rides” scheme that investigators say turned basic health benefits into a cash machine. On Friday, Nasro Takhal pleaded guilty to two felony counts of aiding and...
“America Is Losing Its Americanness,” — Nation’s First Muslim Somali-American Mayor Expresses Anxiety Among...
Nadia Mohamed (MoonMedia / YouTube) Nadia Mohamed, the mayor of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, and the nation’s first elected Somali-American mayor, has drawn attention with recent remarks in a video expressing concern that America is gradually losing its core identity. As a Muslim who immigrated from Somalia at age 10...
