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A Minnesota man has been convicted of first-degree murder for beheading his girlfriend in 2021 in front of an audience of various people. CBS News reports Alexis Saborit 44, on Thursday was found guilty in the killing of America Thayer, 56. The incident took place in July 2021, when Saborit struck Thayer with an 8-pound dumbbell while […]
Residents have been evacuated following a train derailment in Raymond, Minnesota. According to an initial statement from the Raymond Fire Department, the derailment occurred around 1 a.m. local time on Thursday, at which point locals were urged to seek shelter at a school in nearby Prinsburg. A highway was quickly closed in connection with the […]
A Minnesota-based nuclear power plant has launched cleanup efforts after 400,000 gallons of radioactive water leaked from its facility. According to CBS News, Xcel Energy officials announced the move on Thursday, nearly four months after the leak was detected during inspections at its Monticello location. The company says the tritium-tainted water came from a pipe that ran between two buildings at […]
A Minnesota man has been charged with second-degree murder after he killed a sex offender who he claims was stalking his 22-month old daughter. NBC News reports Levi William Axtell, 27, turned himself in to police this week after he killed Lawrence V. Scully, a 77-year-old who was convicted of molesting a 6-year-old girl in 1979. […]
Minnesota State Representative Maria Isa Pérez-Vega, who goes by the stage name Maria Isa, has shared her new EP, Capitolio. The eight-song project offers a blend of Latin, Caribbean, reggaeton, and hip-hop, and opens with the track “Tío Bernie,” or Uncle Bernie, a conversation with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. “12 hours I will be officially […]
A plane crashed into a house in Minnesota over the weekend, killing everyone on board but sparing those inside the home. Per a report from the Associated Press, the two people who were asleep inside the residence at the time of the Cessna 172 plane’s crash on Saturday were left uninjured. The couple’s cat was […]
A Minnesota jury ruled that a longtime pharmacist did not discriminate when he refused to fill a woman’s birth control prescription. According to NBC News, the verdict was announced Friday, nearly three years after Andrea Anderson sued George Badeaux for denying her the morning-after pill. The complaint states Anderson obtained a prescription for emergency contraception in early 2019, after […]
The six-year legal battle over Prince’s $156.4 million estate has finally come to an end. Billboard reports a Minnesota judge has signed off on a deal that will split the estate, which includes roughly $6 million in cash in addition to nearly $150 million in music rights and other intangibles, evenly between two legal entities, Prince Legacy LLC and […]
A 13-year-old boy is on track to earn his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota this year. As ABC News shares, teenager Elliott Tanner will earn his bachelors after majoring in physics with a minor in math, and currently holds a 3.78 grade point average. The teen has already been accepted into University of Minnesota’s Physics PhD program […]
One student is dead and another is injured after a shooting took place at the South Education Center in Richfield, Minnesota Tuesday afternoon. According to CNN, officers arrived at the campus to find two students shot on the sidewalk outside of the school. Both were rushed to the hospital where one of the students died […]
