Minnesota police say two officers and a paramedic have been killed in a shooting at a family home. The gunman, who was barricaded inside his Burnsville home with seven children, opened fire as officers tried to negotiate with him. The dead officers were named as Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, both 27, and the paramedic…
After months of debate and thousands of submissions, Minnesota has unveiled a new flag to replace a design many Native Americans considered offensive. The proposed state flag, which features a white eight-pointed star against a dark blue background shaped like the state, was revealed on Tuesday. The special commission that approved it said the design…
A jail in the US state of Minnesota has been placed under emergency lockdown after about 100 inmates refused to return to their cells. Members of a crisis negotiation team were deployed to the Stillwater correctional facility on Sunday. A spokesperson for the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) said the reasons behind the incident “remains…
A former Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to 57 months (almost five years) in prison for his role in the death of George Floyd. The officer, Tou Thao, was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter by a Minnesota judge in May. Mr Thao testified that he acted as a “human traffic cone”, holding…