Eric Chaloux at KSTP is reporting after nearly a quarter of a century, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe will soon select a new leader as Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin will step down from office rather than seek a seventh term.
Via Bring Me the News: Police arrested a Burnsville High School student Tuesday after school staff discovered a loaded gun in the student’s backpack, according to authorities.
Stephen Montemayor at the Star Tribune reports a 59-year-old Minneapolis man, Michael Allen Francisco, set off a bomb at a Studio 411 salon in 2022 and returned a year later to lob a brick through its window, according to federal charges unsealed this week.
Via the Associated Press: Private money to fund elections will be banned in Wisconsin after voters approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday. The amendment was put forward by Republicans in reaction to grants received in 2020 that were funded by donations from Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Abdi Mohamed at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder has a piece on a new documentary, “MAMA!,” that reveals the lives of three Minnesota mothers who lost their sons at the hands of law enforcement.
Rohan Preston at the Star Tribune reports after six years at the helm of Ten Thousand Things Theater taking first-rate shows to Minnesotans in prisons, shelters and other congregate settings, Marcela Lorca is stepping down as artistic director.
Samantha Fischer at KARE 11 reports that while no one won the big Powerball jackpot Monday night, a lucky customer of Casey’s General Store in Fridley matched their first five numbers to earn a $1 million prize.
