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It’s no secret that Minneapolis Public Schools faces some big challenges.

Name: Michael Baskins Age: 37 Neighborhood: Prospect Park Michael Baskins, an engineer who works in avionics product development, hopes to send his future kids to Minneapolis Public Schools.

Name: Christin Crabtree Age: 46 Neighborhood: Corcoran Christin Crabtree studied education in college and student-taught at South High School.

Name: Ben Lattimore Age: 31 Neighborhood: Audubon Park Ben Lattimore started his career in a corporate job before going back to school to become a high school business education teacher.

Name: Abdul Abdi Age: 51 Neighborhood: Northeast Abdul Abdi, the school board’s treasurer and finance committee chair, had just returned from a visit to Webster Elementary School when he spoke with Sahan Journal.

Name: Becca Dryden Age: 37 Neighborhood: Hale Becca Dryden, a program organizer at a local LGBTQ+ nonprofit, got involved with organizing with Minnesota Families for Public Schools during teacher contract negotiations last year.

Name: Stephanie Johnson Age: Declined to share Neighborhood: South Minneapolis Stephanie Johnson, a Minneapolis Public Schools parent, teaches reading at Minneapolis College.

Name: Molly Chase Age: 52 Neighborhood: Ericsson Molly Chase started her career at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta, where she headed the digital department for the Cartoon Network.

Name: Shannon Gibney Age: 51 Neighborhood: Powderhorn Park Shannon Gibney, a published author who teaches in the English department at Minneapolis College, started organizing with Minneapolis Families for Public Schools and TakeAction Minnesota as teachers

Name: Collin Beachy Age: 55 Neighborhood: Harrison Collin Beachy first ran for the school board in 2022, when he was a Minneapolis special education teacher working with students with developmental cognitive disabilities at the Center for Adult Learning.

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Leaders of more than 40 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies announced a wide-scale collaboration Monday to combat gun violence among groups of Somali youth that they say are affiliated with gangs.

Holiday travel can be exciting, but winter weather, crowded airports and packed schedules can sometimes make the idea of staying at home much more appealing.

Chonburi Lee grew up in St.

Artists across the Twin Cities are exploring the stories that haunt us — from the horrors of war and family trauma to the environmental concerns shaping neighborhood life.

Kamal was hopeful that his summons in April for an interview at a Minneapolis immigration office wouldn’t be an issue.

A sampling of Somali Minnesotans say they aren’t surprised by this fall’s escalating rhetoric singling out their community, yet still they constantly feel hurt and guarded in the face of widespread blame for the actions of a few.

Thuba Nguyen, 36, is running for mayor of Coon Rapids, one of the largest cities in Anoka County.

Neighbors of a north Minneapolis shingle factory filed a class-action lawsuit this month accusing the company of failing to control odors and pollutants they say have harmed their well-being.

Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams announced at a Tuesday night board meeting that she recommends the board not close or merge any schools next year.

This story was originally published by The Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice.

Twin Cities stages and parks are making room for stories about Native, Hmong and Lao communities this weekend.

The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority will soon open up a waitlist for a new state-funded housing voucher program that will provide millions of dollars in rental assistance.

Minnesotans often lead the nation in turning out on Election Day.

This story was originally published by The Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — FBI agents thwarted a terror attack by a teenager on the Mall of America after supplying him with an assault rifle following months of text messages, authorities said Wednesday.

For two decades, Mai Xiong’s family has greeted and served food to many travelers, Hmong families and schoolchildren on field trips to HmongTown Marketplace.

Law enforcement leaders across the Twin Cities are calling for a more comprehensive response to rising gun violence among Somali youth after a string of shootings in recent days they say is connected to gang activity.

Early voting is underway in the general election, when Minnesota voters will select a new governor, a new U.S. senator and at least one new member of Congress.

Around two months ago, I came across Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher’s statement about Somali youth gang involvement in the Twin Cities and the subsequent reaction from some Somali community leaders criticizing the sheriff.

When Northern Iron and Machine stopped melting metal at the end of September, residents of St.

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U.S. immigration authorities have deported nine Somali men from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Somalia, including three Minnesotans.

When Grover Hogan was a kindergartner in Houston, Texas, they drew a really good caterpillar for a test.

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Minneapolis Public Schools leadership got an earful Wednesday night at Camden High School during their first community meeting about a proposal that could close or merge up to 16 schools.

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Renee Good’s brother Brent Ganger and her partner Rebecca Good filed two lawsuits alleging her wrongful death and conspiracy to violate civil rights when she was killed on the morning of Jan. 7 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross.

Renee Good’s family filed two lawsuits Thursday against the federal government and immigration agents for her fatal shooting during Operation Metro Surge.

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A Minneapolis educator filed a legal claim against the federal government on Tuesday, alleging that Border Patrol agents violently attacked him without cause on school property in January.

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Three weeks into the start of the school year, Minneapolis Public Schools has a backlog of nearly 700 students waiting to enroll in their preferred school, district officials confirmed in a statement to Sahan Journal on Friday.

There’s a lot to sink into in the Twin Cities this weekend.

One of the key players in a federal food aid fraud scheme will dissolve itself and pay the state its remaining assets, according to a settlement agreement filed in state court Thursday by the Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Human Rights Watch released a report on Monday detailing the hardships faced by hundreds of people deported by the United States to gang-ravaged Haiti.