Stephen Montemayor with the Star Tribune writes the chief defender for Hennepin County who resigned due to a federal probe has been sentenced to three years of probation. “As part of his plea deal, [Kassius] Benson must pay the Internal Revenue Service $213,591.81 in restitution.”
MPR’s Estelle Timar-Wilcox reports 17-year-old Foday Kamara was sentenced to almost 11 years in prison for the murder of Zaria McKeever in 2022.
Joey Peters at Sahan Journal has been following the Feeding Our Future trial and reports on “explosive new information” detailing the former site supervisor’s participation in the fraud. “I think the best way to put it is, Feeding Our Future was like a bank,” Hadith Ahmed said. “You come and you get the money.”
Bailey Hurley at KSTP reports a new rideshare company, MyWeels, has been approved to operate in Minneapolis.
Mpls St. Paul Magazine explains how the sidewalk poetry of St. Paul came to be.
