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EXCLUSIVE: The snowy streets of Minneapolis are seeking to snatch Sundance from the snowy slopes of Park City. Leading with a tagline of “You Couldn’t Cast A Better Location,” Minnesota's most populous metropolis is among the select cities and jurisdictions that has submitted a detailed bid for the…

WCCO Minneapolis recently struck gold when an employee went to pull archival footage for a story about local teachers’ strike. Production Manager Matt Liddy was looking at features of local landmarks in a 52-year-old film reel when he saw what he believed was a familiar face. Without revealing his guess, he showed the…

UPDATE: The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed a fourth case of Covid-19 with mutations consistent with the new Omicron variant. While the previous three cases have all been traced back to infection outside the community, this latest infection is a possible result of local transmission. The…

UPDATE, 2:23 PM PT: Jury deliberations are beginning in the Derek Chauvin trial after a day-long series of closing arguments as to whether the former Minneapolis police officer is guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd. With the jury out of the room, Judge Peter A. Cahill denied a defense motion for a mistrial…

WRITETHRU, 1:17 PM: The Major League Baseball, NBA and NHL teams in Minnesota have postponed tonight’s home games amid tensions over Sunday night’s police shooting in suburban Minneapolis and a citywide curfew set for 7 p.m. CT. MLB’s Minnesota Twins were the first to scrap their game against the Boston Red Sox…

A part of Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis where George Floyd died will be renamed in his honor, city officials have decided.  The city will refer to the blocks between 37th and 39th streets as George Perry Floyd Jr. Place, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The City Council approved the renaming Friday, with…

George Floyd was remembered by family and friends at a memorial service on Thursday that mixed poignant memories and humorous moments of his life with calls for genuine social justice. In one of the most moving moments of the service, the Rev. Al Sharpton asked those in attendance to stand in silence together for 8…

The ACLU filed a class action lawsuit on Wednesday against law enforcement officials for city of Minneapolis and for state of Minnesota over law enforcement actions against journalists who have been covering protests to the death of George Floyd. “Over the past week, the Minneapolis Police and the Minnesota State…

A coalition of more than 100 state and national news organizations, including all of the major networks, are calling on state officials in Minnesota to “end the series of police arrests and attacks on credentialed and clearly identifiable journalists in your city in recent days.” The incidents against reporters…

UPDATE, 2:23 PM PT: President Donald Trump told reporters that he talked with the family of George Floyd on Friday and said that he asked the Justice Department to expedite the investigation into his death. “It’s a terrible thing. We all saw what we saw and it’s very hard to even conceive of anything other than what…

If Joe Biden hasn't decided on a running mate yet, he might want to add Taylor Swift to the short list. The once apolitical megastar just tore into Donald Trump with a ferocity often absent from the Democrats' technocratic approach to the former Celebrity Apprentice host. After a brutal night that saw Minneapolis and…

UPDATE, with Floyd family statement The family of George Floyd is calling for an upgrade in the criminal charges against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, from 3rd degree murder to 1st degree. The family also is calling for charges against the other officers at the scene when a handcuffed Floyd begged…