Saint Paul MN

ST PAUL, Minn. — A man is recovering in the hospital after his wife says he was chased by federal immigration agents and crashed his car into a telephone pole in St. Paul. Nicole Salamanca said her husband, Christian Salamanca, was on his way to work when agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement began...

A teen who was certified to be tried as an adult in the murder of 19-year-old Jay’Mier Keymari Givens has been sentenced to 25.5 years in prison.

A $1 billion aerospace test center planned for Rosemount has become a flashpoint over what kind of growth Minnesota should welcome. The Minnesota Aerospace Complex, pitched as a cutting edge hub for hypersonic research and high speed wind tunnels, is also drawing sharp resistance from neighbors who see a weapons lab...

A St. Paul business owner says her cafe was the victim of a break-in last week, and claims that the motivation was "intimidation" in response to her providing mutual aid services to immigrant communities. On Wednesday, Rebe’s Play Cafe announced on social media that its location in the Macalester-Groveland...

A rosary adorns a framed photo Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive-care unit nurse who was gunned down by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 25, 2026. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images) The Christian right will never turn down an opportunity to make false accusations of religious...

In Sunday afternoon’s zero degree temperatures, about 60 dedicated individuals braved the cold to gather in an emergency solidarity protest against the occupation of ICE in Minneapolis. Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an ICU nurse who worked at the Minneapolis VA hospital, was identified as the man killed by a Border...

I live smack dab in the middle of an ordinary block in Minneapolis. I borrow occasional eggs or vanilla from the neighbor on my right when I get caught short baking. My partner shovels our elderly neighbor’s sidewalk; she knit him a hat in gratitude. The folks down the street watch our cats when we’re away. In other...

LINCOLN—(KFOR Jan. 26)–The deadly shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, a nurse that was allegedly shot by a federal immigration agent on Saturday in Minneapolis, prompted more protests in the Twin Cities and across the country, including in Lincoln. Former KFOR personality Ward Jacobson, who lives in Minneapolis and...

Alex Pretti was fatally shot by a federal officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 26

MINNEAPOLIS — In the moments after another fatal shooting in Minneapolis at the hands of a federal agent, Eat Street turned chaotic. Federal agents used chemical irritants and flash bangs to back the crowd up. Some agents used the gas to stop protesters from following them as they left.