Saint Paul MN

The unemployment rate among Black women is growing more quickly than the general population, even outpacing that of Black men. It’s prompting Sheletta Brundidge to host a job fair and brunch. Here are the details:

A civil complaint filed in U.S. District Court alleges police and jail staff actively ignored the signs of 50-year-old Kingsley Bimpong’s medical emergency and treated him instead as though he was under the influence of drugs.

A Hudson woman is accused of carrying out a violent knife attack at a Newport apartment complex over the weekend. Deputies responded to the Red Rock Square Apartments just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday, where they found a man outside the building with heavy bleeding from his arm and a wound above his eye.

Your grandmother’s secret sauce recipe just called from St. Paul’s Payne Avenue, and it wants to know why you haven’t visited Yarusso Bros Italian Restaurant yet. This isn’t just another Italian joint trying to convince you their marinara is special because someone’s nonna stirred it with a wooden spoon blessed by...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Guadalupe Lopez, an advocate for Indigenous communities, has been named director of Minnesota’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) Office. Lopez’s appointment marks a continued commitment to addressing and ending violence against Indigenous people across the state. Lopez’s journey as...

A 19-year-old college student suffered severe injuries in a fall as she explored an abandoned building Minneapolis. Shannon Johnson launched a GoFundMe page to help her niece, Carly, with medical expenses as she recovers in the ICU with severe head and brain injuries. She writes Carly fell from six stories from the...

Welcome back to The Flyover, your daily digest of important, overlooked, and/or interesting Minnesota news stories. Strib's Big Mpls Crime Report: Violence Down, but Residents Wary. It's time for the Strib's periodic deep dive into Minneapolis data (gift link), courtesy of reporters Louis Krauss and Jeff Hargarten....

At the end of every month, Michelle Smith stares into her cupboard and finds little food to be found. With her monthly Social Security check spent, Smith turns to Community Emergency Service, the largest food shelf in Minneapolis’ Phillips neighborhood, one of the poorest areas in the Twin Cities. “They always have a...

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours. A newly filed federal lawsuit alleges that a Minnesota postal worker died after police officers and jail staff ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke - mistaking his medical emergency for drug...

The Minneapolis Police Department took to social media to announce the arrest of two suspected bike thieves, validating the diligent efforts of law enforcement to protect the possessions of its residents. Through a Facebook post, they detailed an incident involving two individuals in a parking garage who were caught...