State Senator and Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh says his campaign office was vandalized this week with an Islamophobic message and threat graffitied on a wall.

And the U.S. Department of Justice is suing Minnesota's top election official as it tries to unlock statewide voter registration data.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and attorneys for the state are appealing a ruling that upended a new legal ban on binary triggers.

Federal prosecutors today charged a Twin Cities woman with stealing $14 million from a state autism program.

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Former state Senator Nicole Mitchell has been sentenced to 6 months in jail for her felony burglary convictions.

And the family of 12-year-old Sophia Forchas says she continues to make steady progress at recovery. The young student was critically injured in a mass shooting that killed two children.

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The Advisory Committee on Capitol security met Monday and heard about gun restrictions, screenings and other safety measures in capitols around the country.

A professor at Minnesota State University in Mankato is catching heat for online comments.

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Gov. Tim Walz is pitching himself as a “battle-tested” leader prepared to face unpredictable headwinds from the federal government as he charges into his bid for a third term in office. Former state

Senator Nicole Mitchell's defense team is asking the judge in her upcoming sentencing for leniency.

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