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Sunday, July 5, 2009

Michael Jackson: News, memories, tributes, photos, video

Michael Jackson in London, 2006

Michael Jackson in London, 2006

Special report: News, memories, fan tributes, photos, video on Michael Jackson's superstar life.

Gang Strike Force investigation

Operations at the Strike Force were suspended after Strike Force officials discovered some of the 34 members were removing files from their New Brighton headquarters and shredding records. The unit investigates criminal activity of gangs, including drug dealing in the Twin Cities area.

Supreme Court nominee: Sonya Sotomayor

Judge Sonia Sotomayor

Judge Sonia Sotomayor

Sonya Sotomayor has been nominated her to the Supreme Court. She served as a prosecutor, corporate litigator, trial judge and a member of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. Follow the coverage here.

The Tony Kushner Festival, April 18-June 28

Playwright Tony Kushner

Playwright Tony Kushner

The latest news and information about the Guthrie Theater's spring festival of Tony Kushner plays.

The missing Somali men

Federal agents and Somali leaders in the Twin Cities struggle to find answers to whether up to 20 young men may have returned to Somalia to fight or receive terrorist training. They are preaching against terror in the mosques, monitoring their sons after school and sharing information with the FBI. The Twin Cities area has been at the center of the federal investigation ever since a 27-year-old from Minneapolis blew himself up in a suicide attack in Somalia last fall.

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Whistleblower reader Lewis Strong wanted to know what happened to all of the stuff that state revenue agents seized last week from a Burnsville car audio business to satisfy a whopping tax debt. Strong’s question was well timed, because the Minnesota Department of Revenue has been eager to discuss its crackdown on Bass Zone Inc., [...]

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