Nick Lentz at WCCO reports: “The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a 46-year-old inmate who escaped police custody Sunday afternoon.”

Adam Uren at Bring Me the News reports: “A teenage boy is dead after a shooting in St. Cloud early Sunday morning.” 

Mara Gottfried at the Pioneer Press reports: “Jason Jensen is used to helping other people — as both a Lakeville police officer and a hockey coach – but now the police and hockey communities are rallying around him and his family since he was seriously injured in a fall during practice.”

Briana Bierschbach at the Star Tribune reports: “Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is sitting on more than $1 million in campaign funds if he chooses to seek a third term as governor in 2026.”

Nick Halter at Axios reports: “Metro Transit said it gave 47.5 million rides last year, a 6% increase over 2023 … but (t)hat’s still down 39% compared to 2019, when the agency reported 77.9 million rides.” 

Matt Sepic at MPR News reports: “After years of investigation, charges and guilty pleas, a central figure in the Feeding Our Future case appeared in federal court in Minneapolis as jury selection, which started Monday morning, wrapped up by late afternoon. The panel of 16 people includes four alternates.”

David Pierini at North News reports: “(A) new apartment complex towers over a neighborhood. The residents want it torn down.”

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KARE 11’s Naasir Akailvi reports: “A Delta Airlines flight made an emergency landing at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Sunday.”

Sarah Ritter and Maya Rao at the Star Tribune report: “The University of Minnesota law school is pausing the search for its next assistant dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion as administrators navigate President Donald Trump’s ban of DEI programs in the federal government.”

In related news, Feven Gerezgiher at MPR News reports: “Supporters (of immigrants) rallied on Minneapolis’ East Lake Street – a vibrant corridor of Mexican, Somali and other immigrant-owned businesses – packing the area on a grey and cold winter afternoon. They carried signs reading ‘All are welcome here’ and ‘Immigrants Make America Great.’”

Caroline Cummings at WCCO reports: “The Minnesota Supreme Court will weigh a new lawsuit stemming from the power dispute in the state House next week.”

Emily Baudle at KSTP reports: “Law enforcement is investigating after a man was found dead in a ditch near Hastings on Sunday morning. … The man’s identity has not yet been released; however, law enforcement believes the incident is connected to a report of a missing man and a suspicious fire investigation at a residence on St. Croix Trail in Denmark Township around 2 a.m. on Saturday.”

Jon Bream at the Star Tribune reports: “(Prince) was posthumously presented with a lifetime achievement Grammy on Saturday in a Special Merit Awards Ceremony that honored seven artists, including Frankie Valli, Taj Mahal and the Clash, the night before the 67th annual Grammy Awards.”

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KARE 11 reports: “One of the 67 people killed in Wednesday’s deadly air collision in Washington, D.C. is originally from Minnesota, according to online posts by family members.”

Clay Masters at MPR reports: “A new lawsuit over the House standoff asks the Minnesota Supreme Court to give Republicans help in ‘ending the constitutional crisis and restoring a functioning Legislature’ during a now two-week-old boycott by Democrats.” 

MPR’s Regina Medina reports: “Racial justice group leaders called for a national boycott of Target during a rally Thursday in front of the offices of the Minneapolis-based retailer.”

Nick Halter at Axios reports: “After a couple of soft years, the desire for urban living in the Twin Cities is heating back up.”

Katie Galioto at the Star Tribune reports: “Minnetonka-based Onward Investors purchased the 31-story Ameriprise Financial Center at a big discount, adding to its growing portfolio of downtown Minneapolis office buildings.”

From the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder: “Minnesota’s high school basketball scene just found a new phenom in Ari Peterson, the daughter of former NFL legend Adrian Peterson.” 

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Lolita C. Baldor, Eric Tucker and Tara Copp at the Associated Press report: “A jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.”

Morgan Reddekopp at KSTP reports: “A teen who was certified as an adult in the 2023 shooting at Nudieland pleaded guilty on Wednesday. Dominic Burris, 18, entered guilty pleas to aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting first-degree assault.”

MPR News reports: “The city of Minneapolis has apparently reached a settlement with a woman who claims then-police officer Derek Chauvin used excessive force against her in 2020, four months before Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd, killing him.”

Jeremy Olson at the Star Tribune reports: “Hospitals in Minnesota are advising their employees on what to do if immigration agents show up.”

FOX 9’s Rob Olson reports: “A teen hockey player from Minnesota, playing for an Idaho team, suffered a serious injury on the ice. Now the hockey community is rallying behind him and his family.”

The Strib’s Paul Walsh reports: “A man with a long history of getting on the road despite repeatedly losing his driving privileges was spared from prison Wednesday afternoon for speeding through a red light at a Minnetonka intersection and causing a collision that critically injured a teenager.”

Adam Uren at Bring Me the News reports: “An SUV driver managed to escape without injury after crashing into the water at the point of a pressure ridge on Lake Minnetonka.” 

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Dana Ferguson and Clay Masters at MPR News report: “Minnesota leaders said they intend to join a legal fight against a new move by President Donald Trump to suspend federal money for an unspecified but potentially long list of programs.”

WCCO reports: “Target’s rollback on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is raising questions about the retail giant’s philanthropic commitment to fighting racial disparities and promoting progressive values in liberal Minneapolis, where it is based, and beyond.”

Ellen Galles at KSTP reports: “Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges has a warning about a (deportation) scam he says is bound to happen.”

Alicia Eler at the Star Tribune reports: “Experts in New York … may have discovered a previously unknown Vincent van Gogh portrait of a fisherman. … the painting first surfaced a few years ago at a garage sale in Minnesota and was sold to an antiques collector for less than $50.”

KARE 11’s Lou Raguse reports: “Brothers Abdulkadir Nur Salah and Abdi Nur Salah pleaded guilty Tuesday in a surprise move” in the Feeding Our Future scandal.

Jimmy Lovrien at the Duluth News-Tribune reports: “(A) St. Louis Park-born runner wins Arrowhead 135. 

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From Bring Me the News: “A Twin Cities man with a long criminal record is accused of crashing a stolen vehicle while fleeing police in St. Paul on Friday evening, killing his girlfriend the day before her 29th birthday.”

KTTC’s Addie McCabe reports: “A federal lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the family of Melvin Bush, a 59-year-old man who died at the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center (OCADC) in March 2023.”

KSTP’s Eric Chaloux reports: “The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have launched new Black Hawk helicopters, along with Manitoba Conservation Officers are now patrolling the border with the United States, including with northern Minnesota.”

FOX 9’s Rob Olson reports: “The Lakeville school board is voting Tuesday whether or not to remove inclusivity posters in their schools.”

CCX Media reports: “The sale of Brooklyn Park’s Huntington Place Apartments — the second largest complex in Minnesota — remains in limbo.”

MPR’s Sam Stroozas reports: “The trailer for the upcoming Minneapolis-based season of Netflix’s ‘Love is Blind’ is out and things are looking … medical? A fourth of the 32 cast members introduced work in the medical field.”

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The Star Tribune’s Eva Herscowitz reports: “Twin Cities Pride has decided to exclude Target from its annual festival and parade after the retailer’s decision to scale back diversity initiatives.”

Sarah Ritter from the Star Tribune reports: “A Minnesota woman died on Friday while skydiving in Arizona.”

Kirsti Marohn at MPR News reports: “Money from Minnesota’s settlement with 3M over ‘forever chemicals’ will soon be available for natural resources projects in the east Twin Cities metro.”

From WCCO: “The FBI says an arrest has been made in connection to the fatal shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was from Minnesota.”

Jay Kolls at KSTP reports: “The old Speedway convenience store, now called ‘The People’s Way’ at the corner of 38th and Chicago at George Floyd Square, now has four private groups bidding to purchase the property.”

Mary Divine at the Pioneer Press reports: “A former deputy with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office says a co-worker sexually harassed her while she was working undercover as ‘bait’ with the East Metro Sex Trafficking Task Force.”

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Christopher Snowbeck with the Star Tribune reports: “UnitedHealth Group has named long-time executive Tim Noel as the new chief executive for its massive UnitedHealthcare health insurance business. “The announcement Thursday came a little more than seven weeks after the Dec. 4 murder of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO who was killed in a fatal ambush on a New York City sidewalk.”

MinnPost’s Ana Radelat has two stories on President Trump’s recent executive actions on Justice Department civil rights cases and immigration, both of which could have huge impacts on Minnesota. For further reading on whether Minneapolis’ consent decree over police reform will be targeted, Alanna Durkin Richer at the Associated Press reports: “… the new administration ‘may wish to reconsider’ such agreements, raising the prospect that it may abandon two consent decrees finalized in the final weeks of the Biden administration in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis.”

Also from the Star Tribune, Jp Lawrence reports: “Gov. Tim Walz proposed a bonding bill of $887 million that could fix impaired dams and other projects across the state.”

From Bring Me the News: “The Minnesota Department of Health recently released its first findings regarding the impact of long COVID on Minnesotans.”

Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton at MPR News report: “The University of Minnesota’s Mapping Prejudice project now has permission to search another county’s property records for racist housing deeds.

“Stearns County commissioners voted earlier this week to approve a memorandum of understanding with the University of Minnesota Libraries so they could comb for racial covenants — clauses in property deeds that barred specific ethnic groups from owning homes or land.”

WCCO’s Stephen Swanson reports: “‘A Complete Unknown,’ the biopic chronicling the swift pop-cultural ascent of Minnesota native Bob Dylan in the early 1960s, has been nominated for eight Academy Awards.”

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Matt Sepic at MPR News reports: “An organization that represents police across Minnesota is suing the state for releasing private information about undercover officers.”

Olivia Estright at the Rochester Post Bulletin reports: “The family of a 13-year-old girl has filed a federal lawsuit against Mayo Clinic and two orthopedic surgeons, alleging they permanently paralyzed the girl after failing to stabilize her spine during surgery.”

Nick Longworth at FOX 9 reports: “A proposed ordinance before the Minneapolis City Council would allow the city to charge fees to Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officers who conduct off-duty police work, while using city-issued weapons, vehicles and uniforms.”

Peter Passi at the Duluth News Tribune reports: “Sofidel’s plans to expand its paper mill operation got a boost this week with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development’s announcement that it will provide nearly $2.4 million in assistance to help clean up the site where the company aims to build.”

Joseph Williams at the Minnesota Spokesman-recorder reports: “On Sunday, with just hours left in his term, (President) Biden reached back 100 years into the past, granting posthumous clemency to Marcus Garvey, the pioneering civil rights activist and Black nationalist.”

KARE 11’s David Griswold reports: “The James Beard Foundation announced its semifinalists on Wednesday, and it includes six local chefs and five local restaurants.” 

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Via the Star Tribune, Karoun Demirjian and Sharon LaFraniere at the New York Times reports: “An ex-sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth’s submitted a sworn statement to senators on Tuesday that accused Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, of being so ‘abusive’ toward his second wife that she once hid in a closet from him and had a safe word to call for help if she needed to get away from him.”

Maya Rao at the Star Tribune reports: “Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued to block Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, joining counterparts in 21 other states in legal battles against a right they say is guaranteed by the Constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court.”

From Beret Leone, Adam Duxter, Graham Kates, Robert Legare, Melissa Quinn, Cole Premo at WCCO: “Minnesotans are among those granted clemency for crimes committed during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.”

Addie McCabe and Ryder Blair at KTTC report: “… the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) awarded nearly $7 million in Contamination Clean-up grants for 11 Minnesota communities, including the city of Rochester.”

Peter Passi at the Duluth News Tribune reports: “Following years of litigation, the fate of the Paul Robeson Ballroom and Pastoret Terrace, formerly home to the Kozy Bar & Apartments, may finally be coming into costly focus.”

David Griswold at KARE 11 reports: “A man was arrested Tuesday in connection to a fire Saturday morning at a strip club in Elk Mound, Wisconsin.”

Editor’s note: An earlier headline indicated Hegseth’s accuser of violence was the biological sister of his ex-wife. She was a sister-in-law to Hegseth.

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