From the Associated Press via MPR News: “The FBI is sending extra agents, analysts and other personnel to field offices in 10 states (including Minnesota) over the next six months to help investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country, marking a continuation of efforts by the federal government to address high rates of violence affecting Native American communities.”

Matt Sepic at MPR News reports: “A federal judge in St. Paul on Wednesday gave immigration officials two days to say why they’re detaining a University of Minnesota graduate student.”
Kirsten Swanson and Emily Baude at KSTP report: “A second victim is suing the former owner and management company of Hotel Ivy, arguing it played a role in a sex trafficking scheme that victimized multiple teenage girls and ended in the conviction of Anton ‘Tony’ Lazzaro.”
Robbie Sequeira at the Minnesota Reformer reports: “Minneapolis recently became the fourth U.S. city to ban algorithmic rental price-fixing software, joining San Francisco, Philadelphia and Berkeley, California, in a growing wave of legislation aimed to protect renters from rental price-gouging.”
KARE 11’s Felicity Dachel reports: “A woman and two dogs died in a house fire in Ely.”
Jay Kolls at KSTP reports: “The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office arrested a 17-year-old at his home in St. Paul, where they seized untraceable ghost guns, a rifle, ammunition and switches that can turn weapons into machine guns.”
John Shipley at the Pioneer Press reports: “Tori McKinney scored a career-high 26 points, and Mallory Heyer added her second double-double in as many games as Minnesota beat Belmont, 75-63, to win the second Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament at Hinkle Fieldhouse on Wednesday in Indianapolis.”
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