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Apr. 15—BEMIDJI — Another housing opportunity will come before the Bemidji City Council during its session tonight, with local developer Mitch Rautio asking the city to be the grantee for a workforce housing project. Rautio hopes to build six townhomes with three bedrooms each and rent each of them for $1,500 a month. The funds […]

Apr. 15—MINNEAPOLIS — A federal jury has found a Red Lake woman guilty of child neglect and endangerment in the Red Lake Nation for incidents spanning between January 2021 and April 2022. According to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice, following a five-day trial before Judge Katherine M. Menendez, 46-year-old Bobbi Jo Johnson, […]

Florida will become the second state to stop local governments from requiring heat protection for outdoor workers after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 433. The law, which DeSantis signed last week, goes into effect on July 1 and establishes multiple restrictions for city and county governments, including the ability to set heat exposure […]

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s economy in the first quarter beat expectations while receiving a boost from policies and an increase in demand, the government said Tuesday. The world’s second-largest economy expanded at a 5.3% annual pace in January-March, beating analysts’ forecasts of about 4.8%, official data show. Compared to the previous quarter, growth was […]

Apr. 15—A 47-year-old man who has been incarcerated his entire adult life for the killing of 22-year-old Felicia Reese could be released in two-and-a-half years after a judge’s ruling last week. Reese was six months away from her wedding when she was kidnapped Dec. 27, 1994, from the parking lot of the Sheraton-Spokane Hotel where […]

Trump’s lawyer was repeatedly bench-slapped on the first day of his trial. Lead lawyer Todd Blanche, suffered a quintet of rebukes for his lawyering. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan called out the lawyer at least five times Monday. It took New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan four hours to dispense with pretrial […]

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The parents of a woman who was gunned down by her ex-father-in-law said a family court judge ignored warning signs. Ashley Prince, 30, was shot and killed on April 8 and her husband, Dennis Prince, 57, who was representing her at a child custody deposition at his Las Vegas law office […]

SACRAMENTO, California — Steve Garvey, the former baseball superstar turned Republican candidate, has managed to raise millions in recent weeks for his longshot bid for California’s open Senate seat — and it’s costing him. Garvey raised $3.4 million from mid-February through the end of March, and, as federal filings show, it cost him over $1 […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China said it believed Iran could “handle the situation well and spare the region further turmoil” while safeguarding its sovereignty and dignity, referring to an attack on Iran’s embassy in Syria and its retaliatory strike over the weekend. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian via a phone […]

Apr. 15—EAST LYME — The recent workplace harassment investigation into part-time firefighter Chris Taylor, who also serves as the Flanders Fire Department’s volunteer chief, underscores the need to bring the town’s two independent fire departments under professional leadership. That’s according to First Selectman Dan Cunningham, who created the unified East Lyme Fire Service in February. […]