(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will go ahead with imposing 25 percent tariffs on an additional $16 billion in Chinese imports. Customs officials will begin collecting the border tax Aug. 23, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said. The list is heavy on industrial products such as steam turbines…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Minnesota health officials say measles has been diagnosed in a 5-year-old child who lives in Hennepin County. The state Health Department said Tuesday the child became ill in early August shortly after returning from traveling to a region where measles is common. The child likely was infectious from July 30 through Aug. 7. Health officials say the…
ELY, Minn. (AP) – A missing camper has been found safe in the vast wilderness of northern Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area. St. Louis County sheriff’s authorities received a report Tuesday morning of a lost camper in Friday Bay of Crooked Lake. The sheriff’s office says 46-year-old Daniel Teeter of Maple Valley, Washington, was last seen at his campsite around…
(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) – General Electric says it’s laying off 200 hourly workers at its upstate New York plant that produces steam turbines for the company’s power unit. Boston-based GE announced Tuesday that the layoffs include unionized manufacturing and assembly employees at its facilities in Schenectady, where Thomas Edison co-founded the company in 1892. Another 25 unfilled…
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court will hear arguments Tuesday by the state of California and advocacy groups who contend the Trump administration overreached by waiving environmental reviews to speed construction of the president’s prized border wall with Mexico. California is appealing a decision by U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel of San Diego, who sided with…
(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)DETROIT (AP) – U.S. safety investigators are looking into complaints of fires that may have been caused by the seat belts in Ford F-150 pickup trucks. The investigation covers trucks from the 2015 through 2018. Ford sold about 2 million F-150s during those years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating five complaints that fires began…
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) – The Diocese of Duluth has added two priests to its list of clergy credibly accused of sexually abusing a child. The Roman Catholic diocese serving northeastern Minnesota added the names of the Revs. William C. Graham and Roland Antus to the list . In Graham’s case, the alleged abuse reportedly occurred in the 1970s. When the…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Police say a shooting inside a community radio station in Madison, Wisconsin, doesn’t appear to be random. Officers were called to the shooting at WORT-FM shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday. A police spokesman says a 33-year-old man was injured by gunfire and taken to a hospital. The station says a man wearing a mask and hood…
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (AP) – Maplewood police are asking for the public’s help in finding two men who defaced a mosque last month. Police released images from a surveillance video showing what authorities say are two men spray-painting graffiti on the outside wall of the Islamic Institute of Minnesota’s Al-Salam mosque. The messages included the number 666 and the words “Jesus…
INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. (AP) – The State Patrol says a motorcyclist has died in a collision with a moose in northern Minnesota. The patrol says 66-year-old Gary Allan Vansickle of Milaca was riding a Harley-Davidson on Highway 6 in Koochiching County when he struck a moose that was crossing the road on Saturday. Authorities say Vansickle was wearing a helmet….
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A new Minnesota law gives bankers and financial advisers some new tools to report suspicious activity tied to the accounts of potentially vulnerable seniors. Minnesota Public Radio News reports that the Safe Seniors Financial Protection Act took effect on Wednesday. It gives advisers the authority to delay certain financial transactions while they investigate, making the…
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is worth $1,001,679,220,000. The maker of the iPhone and other gadgets became the world’s first publicly traded company with a market value of $1 trillion on Thursday. The company reached the milestone a couple of hours into the trading session when its shares reached $207.04. They closed with a gain of 2.9 percent to…
(Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File) ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota is joining a lawsuit against the federal government to block the release of blueprints that show how to make 3D-printed plastic guns. Attorney General Lori Swanson said Friday she is joining other attorneys generals challenging the recent settlement between the Trump administration and a Texas-based company that wants…
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – Air Force authorities are trying to find out what prompted a 911 call that caused a chaotic “active shooter” reaction on a sprawling Ohio base. Spokeswoman Marie Vanover at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton said Friday the investigation “is ongoing,” and that there’s no timetable yet for its completion. She said no injuries have been…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) – A man has been convicted of killing his grandparents at a home he shared with them in central Minnesota. Thirty-three-year-old Gregory Allen Scheel pleaded guilty in Stearns County District Court to two counts of first-degree murder Thursday. KNSI reports Scheel cried when he admitted to assaulting and murdering 93-year-old Willie Scheel and 80-year-old Gloria Scheel…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Officials in Minnesota say a third-party vendor performing work on a 911 system caused a widespread service failure in Minnesota, and that the outage affected North Dakota and North Carolina too. Several cities and counties scrambled to broadcast backup emergency phone numbers during the hour-long outage Wednesday afternoon. Telecommunications company CenturyLink, which operates 911 networks…
COMFREY, Minn. (AP) – The death of a 9-year-old boy on a playground in southwestern Minnesota is under investigation. Police say Gavin Ludewig was found tangled in a swing on the playground in Comfrey, a small community in Brown County, about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was pronounced dead at Springfield Medical Center. The Star Tribune reports police have not said…
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Federal authorities say they’re responding to reports of an active shooter at an Air Force base in Ohio, and the base is on lockdown. Security forces and other emergency responders are outside the hospital at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said via Twitter it’s among several agencies…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The TSA is considering ending screening of passengers at smaller airports across the country to focus security efforts at the largest airports. It is unclear how advanced the proposal is and whether it will ever be adopted. Still, aviation-security experts reacted with alarm, saying it could make flights at smaller airports inviting targets for terrorists. CNN reported…
(Dawn Manteufel via AP) WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) — Surgeons have amputated the legs and hands of a Wisconsin man who contracted a rare blood infection from a dog lick. Greg Manteufel remains hospitalized at a Milwaukee area hospital. Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin infectious disease specialist Dr. Silvia Munoz-Price says the bacteria that invaded Manteufel’s body comes…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A driver “trying to make it to Taco Bell before it closed” at 99 mph is among the thousands of motorists cited for speeding in Minnesota last month. It was part of a statewide crackdown on speeding and unsafe driving between July 6 and July 22. Minnesota Department of Public Safety data shows law enforcement…
APPLE VALLEY, Minn. (AP) – Police have arrested an 18-year-old man accused of pushing an 8-year-old boy off a slide at a suburban Minneapolis water park. Authorities say the boy fell nearly 32 feet to the concrete below and suffered multiple fractures at the Apple Valley Aquatic Center on Tuesday. The incident happened at the Apple Valley Aquatic Center. Eighteen-year-old…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A tip to a poacher’s hotline has resulted in charges against a southern Minnesota couple who investigators say were found with nearly 300 crappies after fishing on Fairmont’s Lake Sisseton. The State Department of Natural Resources says the possession limit for crappies in the state is 10. The Star Tribune reports that 70-year-old Isouvahn Xayachack,…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A fight over ownership of the Mesabi Metallics project in northern Minnesota has landed in federal court. Nubai Global Investment has filed a lawsuit asking a judge for a temporary restraining order against Tom Clarke as the two sides battle over ownership. Nubai says Clarke was removed from his roles with Mesabi and Chippewa Capital Partners. But,…
NEW YORK (AP) — Wells Fargo is agreeing to pay a $2.1 billion fine to settle allegations it misrepresented the types of mortgages it sold to investors during the housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis. The amount is smaller than fines paid by Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and other big banks in the years following the financial…
GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (AP) – Officials are tracking a 2-acre wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Kris Reichenbach, with the Superior National Forest, says the fire is burning north of Grand Marais near Seagull Lake. WDIO-TV reports Reichenbach says a crew is canoeing to the area to assess the fire which is also being monitored from the air….
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota residents with autism or obstructive sleep apnea can now qualify for the state’s medical marijuana program. Those additions are effective Wednesday, marking the latest expansion of the program that launched in 2015. Minnesota lawmakers passed one of the nation’s most restrictive medical marijuana laws in 2014, banning the plant form and restricting its use…
NEW YORK (AP) – The NBA and WNBA will now share official data with MGM Resorts, a major win for the leagues as they prepare for the anticipated growth of sports betting across the country. MGM will pay the NBA for that data to use in determining outcomes of various bets. The NBA’s stance has been that getting accurate stats…
(Mercy For Animals via AP)DENVER (AP) — Recently released undercover video showing pigs being kicked, hit and punched at a Kentucky supplier for the world’s largest meat producer drew prompt condemnation from animal rights groups and the agricultural industry alike. However, the images sandwiched in between — adult pigs in cages barely bigger than their bodies and a piglet squealing…
(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)NEW YORK (AP) – Facebook says it has uncovered “sophisticated” efforts, possibly linked to Russia, to influence U.S. politics on its platforms. The company says it removed 32 accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in “coordinated” behavior and appeared to be fake. The company says it doesn’t know who is behind the efforts, but…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Starting Wednesday, Minnesota residents who get a DWI while driving a car won’t be able to drive an ATV or snowmobile with impunity any more. That legal change is among several new laws due to take effect on Aug. 1. The revised DWI law closes what lawmakers say was a loophole that let people keep…
(Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File) (AP) – Eight states are filing suit against the Trump administration over its decision to allow a Texas company to publish downloadable blueprints for a 3D-printed gun, contending the hard-to-trace plastic weapons are a boon to terrorists and criminals and threaten public safety. The suit, filed Monday in Seattle, asks a judge to block…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The Minnesota Court of Appeals has upheld Winona County’s frack sand ban. The appeals court Monday affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit from a company that challenged the ordinance. Minnesota Sands and a group of landowners argued the 2016 mining ordinance violates their constitutional rights by singling out sand used for industrial purposes,…
BRAINERD, Minn.- Authorities are investigating a plane crash in Minnesota, the third in as many days. Officials say no one was seriously injured when a plane went down while attempting to land at an airport in Crow Wing County Monday. The Federal Aviation Administration says two people were on board the fixed-wing, single-engine airplane when it crashed about 11 a.m….
MINNEAPOLIS-A Minnesota prosecutor’s news conference to announce a charging decision in the fatal shooting of a black man by police has ended in disarray. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman was shouted down by community members as he prepared to detail his decision in the death of 31-year-old Thurman Blevins. He said he won’t charge Minneapolis officers in the case. Blevins was…
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The owners and operators of a tourist boat that sank this month in Missouri, killing 17 people, put profits over people’s safety when they decided to put the Ride the Ducks boat on a lake despite design problems and warnings of severe weather, a lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit filed Sunday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City seeks…
MADISON, Wis.-Wisconsin’s five-day sales tax holiday is about to begin. Shoppers won’t have to pay sales taxes on clothing, computers and school supplies Wednesday through Sunday. The holiday comes with plenty of strings attached. Each item of clothing must cost less than $75 to be exempt from the sales tax; computers must be purchased for personal use and must cost…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Curiosity and awe have greeted a complete lunar eclipse, the longest one of this century and visible in much of the world. The so-called “blood moon,” when it turns a deep red, was visible at different times in Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe and South America when the sun, Earth and moon lined up perfectly, casting Earth’s shadow…
(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling about 550,000 cars and SUVs in North America to fix a gearshift problem that could cause the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly. The recall covers certain 2013 through 2016 Fusion sedans and some 2013 and 2014 Escape small SUVs. Ford says a bushing that attaches the shifter cable to the transmission…
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – The Michigan Supreme Court says schools can ban visitors from carrying guns. Under state law, local governments must defer to the Legislature on gun policy. But in a 4-3 decision Friday, the court said the law mentions cities, villages, townships and counties – not school districts. Lawyers for gun owners had argued that public schools can’t…
FLAMBEAU, Wis. (AP) – Communities in northern Wisconsin are working on their next steps following a recent law change that’ll give companies an easier time moving forward with plans to mine metals. Wisconsin Public Radio reports that the repeal of a decades-old sulfide mining moratorium took effect this month. The moratorium required companies to provide proof of a sulfide mine…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota is on its way to triple the number of people who voted early in the state’s August primary election. The Capitol View reports that figures from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office show that nearly 29,700 people had already cast their ballots by July 26 using the state’s “no-excuse absentee” voting option. That’s up…
(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy surged in the April-June quarter to an annual growth rate of 4.1 percent. That’s the fastest pace since 2014, driven by consumers who began spending their tax cuts and exporters who rushed to get their products delivered ahead of retaliatory tariffs. President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump denied Friday that he knew in advance about a Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 between a Russian lawyer, his eldest son and other campaign aides that had been convened to hear dirt on his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. Trump tweeted, “NO,” he “did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr.”…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Rep. Tim Walz says he’d push to raise the state’s gasoline tax if elected governor to pay for infrastructure improvements. The Democratic congressman included that measure as part of a broader policy package he released with mayors and leaders from across Minnesota on Thursday. Walz called Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton’s failed push for a hike…
BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) – Authorities have released the name of a woman who drowned in a lake in northern Minnesota. Beltrami County authorities identify the victim as 32-year-old Amber Jackson of Cass Lake. Jackson’s body was pulled from Lake Bemidji on Wednesday. Drowning is listed as the preliminary cause of death. No trauma was found. More tests are pending. Categories:…
(AP) MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin regulators have signed off on American Transmission Company’s plan to build a new substation and transmission lines to power Foxconn Technology Group’s massive flat-screen plant in Mount Pleasant. The Public Service Commission voted 3-0 on Thursday to approve the project. The work is expected to cost between $117 million and $120 million depending on…
(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)NEW YORK (AP) — The 19 percent loss in Facebook’s stock chopped $119 billion off its market value. It was the company’s worst trading day since going public in 2012, and among the biggest one-day losses of market value in U.S. stock market history. The loss came a day after Facebook revealed that its user base and revenue…
(David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)(AP) – United Natural Foods is buying Supervalu for $1.26 billion, creating a grocery food wholesaler with a diverse customer base. United Natural Foods of Providence, Rhode Island, said Thursday it’s paying $32.50 per share in cash, or a premium of 67 percent, for each share of Supervalu Inc. Including the assumption of debt, the deal…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A federal judge has ordered Wisconsin to pay for surgeries that two transgender Medicaid recipients need to treat their gender dysphoria. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Cody Flack and Sara Ann Makenzie filed a lawsuit in April, saying the state’s rule denying all coverage for such surgeries violates their civil rights. U.S. District Judge William…
