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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...

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...

MINNESOTA, USA — One person suffered from burns after a fire erupted in the basement of the house in White Bear Township. Officials report that firefighters responded to a call of a fire around 3:31 a.m. on Sunday. Upon arrival at the residence at the 5400 block of Peterson Road, fire crews discovered an active fire...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Minnesota — The Twin Cities wake to a gray, hushed morning as cold air lingers over frozen pavement. Exhaust plumes drift along city streets, and sidewalks feel slick where yesterday’s melt refroze before...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — LaTasha Thomas, 39, received a 12-month prison sentence followed by a year of supervised release for mail fraud and must also repay $325,159 to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen says Thomas, along with her daughter Ambrosia Thomas and relative Cynthia Thomas,...

Police said one person was killed early Sunday morning after a vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic and struck another vehicle.

MINNEAPOLIS - Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt said she hasn't decided how much to cooperate with federal officials when it comes to handing over immigrants in the country illegally who are held in the jail she oversees in downtown Minneapolis. Witt told reporters on Friday she's had four meetings with...

(RNS) — In Minneapolis, many Native people say they are reluctant to leave their homes for fear of being detained by federal ICE agents. The post Minneapolis Native communities fight fear of ICE with traditional ritual and prayer appeared first on RNS .

Minnesota police recently arrested over 40 individuals protesting outside the Whipple Federal Building in St. Paul after demonstrators began throwing chunks of ice at ICE officers. For context, the protests took place for the one-month anniversary of Renee Good‘s passing, a 37-year-old mother who was fatally shot by...

On Saturday evening, East Side residents are set to ring the frozen edge of Lake Phalen with small lights, arranging them on the snow to spell out “MN > ICE” with a Hmong heart symbol glowing at the center. Organizers describe the gathering as a peaceful neighborhood memorial and protest after weeks of federal...