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Smithfield agrees to pay $2 million to resolve child labor allegations at Minnesota meat plant
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Smithfield Foods, one of the nation’s largest meat processors, has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations of child labor violations at a plant in Minnesota, officials announced Thursday. An investigation by the Minnesota Department of Labor and...
AP Race Call: Democrat Kelly Morrison wins election to U.S. House in Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District
Democrat Kelly Morrison won election to a U.S. House seat representing Minnesota on Tuesday. Morrison is an OB-GYN and abortion rights advocate from Deephaven who resigned from the Minnesota Senate in June to run for Congress. She won the suburban Minneapolis 3rd District seat being vacated by Democratic Rep....
Hmong Minnesotans who support Tim Walz hope to sway fellow Hmong communities in swing states
As co-founder and executive director of the Hmong American Farmers Association in Minnesota, Janssen Hang has met Gov. Tim Walz several times. It's usually been on farmland with Walz in his trademark red flannel shirt. “I’ve seen that red flannel multiple times.” Hang said,...
Minnesota Supreme Court weighs whether a woman going topless violates an indecent exposure law
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman's misdemeanor conviction for going topless in public should be overturned because female breasts are not defined as “private parts” by the state's indecent exposure statute, her attorney told the state Supreme Court. Eloisa Plancarte was...
Minnesota state senator pleads not guilty to burglarizing stepmother's home
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota state senator has pleaded not guilty to burglarizing the home of her estranged stepmother after her father's death. Sen. Nicole Mitchell, a Democrat from the St. Paul suburb of Woodbury, was charged in April. She told police at the time that...
