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Former staff allege addiction treatment provider Care Crossings is breaking law, putting clients at risk

Twin Cities

Former staff allege addiction treatment provider Care Crossings is breaking law, putting clients at risk

The business is benefitting from inadequate client care, former Care Crossings employees said. The owner said her “out of the box” model helps people with substance use disorder.

Minneapolis

Minneapolis landlord opens homeless camps on his parking lots in defiance of city

Eat & Drink

The 30 restaurants most vital to the Twin Cities area right now

Outdoors

Forecasters say smoke will bring unhealthy air to all of Minnesota this weekend

Minneapolis

One Minneapolis police lieutenant earned about $500,000 last year amid record overtime costs

Environment

Minneapolis rain gardens were built to reduce water pollution. Research shows they’re making it worse.

Twins

Reusse: Exceptional Pirates pitcher draws a crowd, or was it Nelly?

Patrick Reusse

Twins

Reusse: Exceptional Pirates pitcher draws a crowd, or was it Nelly?

Patrick Reusse

Twins

Social media star Livvy Dunne finds her way to Twins game and onto the Target Field scoreboard

Twins

Social media star Livvy Dunne finds her way to Twins game and onto the Target Field scoreboard

Home Gazing

Italian-style villa in south Minneapolis’ Linden Hills listed for nearly $1.8M

Home Gazing

Italian-style villa in south Minneapolis’ Linden Hills listed for nearly $1.8M

St. Paul

Summit Avenue residents plan new lawsuit over bike lane

St. Paul

Summit Avenue residents plan new lawsuit over bike lane

Greater Minnesota

Greater Minnesota

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

Greater Minnesota

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

The Wabasha 37-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to charges in the 2023 crash.

Greater Minnesota

Tolkkinen: No shrubs, no native grasses. Was I really driving through southern Minnesota?

Karen Tolkkinen

Greater Minnesota

Tolkkinen: No shrubs, no native grasses. Was I really driving through southern Minnesota?

Karen Tolkkinen

News & Politics

Prosecutors argue ex-Sen. Justin Eichorn didn’t have ‘immunity’ to sex sting charges as former lawmaker

News & Politics

Prosecutors argue ex-Sen. Justin Eichorn didn’t have ‘immunity’ to sex sting charges as former lawmaker

Greater Minnesota

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

Greater Minnesota

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

The Wabasha 37-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to charges in the 2023 crash.

St. Cloud

St. Cloud business owner accused of swindling $240K from customers

Duluth

CHS to close Twin Ports largest grain elevator, all 504 concrete silos

Greater Minnesota

Ex-sheriff’s deputy in northwest Minnesota and wife charged with trafficking, animal cruelty in Tennessee

Duluth

Duluth EPA lab employees put on leave after signing dissent letter

Opinion

Columnists

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Aaron Brown

Columnists

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Aaron Brown

As a physician shortage pressures rural health care, advanced practice providers assert new power.

Commentaries

Opinion | Is it fair that immigrant children are often asked to bear so much weight?

Commentaries

Opinion | Is it fair that immigrant children are often asked to bear so much weight?

Commentaries

Opinion | Minnesota’s leaders are grieving. Let’s give them grace.

Readers Write

Readers Write: Fragmentation of the metro, Target’s DEI policies, Rep. Melissa Hortman

Columnists

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Aaron Brown

Columnists

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Aaron Brown

As a physician shortage pressures rural health care, advanced practice providers assert new power.

Commentaries

Opinion | Minnesota’s leaders are grieving. Let’s give them grace.

Readers Write

Readers Write: Fragmentation of the metro, Target’s DEI policies, Rep. Melissa Hortman

Strib Voices

Columnists

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Aaron BrownEditorial Columnist

Commentaries

Opinion | Is it fair that immigrant children are often asked to bear so much weight?

Eva Skipwith

Twins

Reusse: Exceptional Pirates pitcher draws a crowd, or was it Nelly?

Patrick ReusseColumnist

Sports

Gophers

Gophers star Koi Perich is shining bright, even if he isn’t impressed

Back home for a visit to Esko, sophomore Perich says, “I haven’t done anything yet,” a sign that he still has the fire inside.

Twins

Reusse: Exceptional Pirates pitcher draws a crowd, or was it Nelly?

Patrick Reusse

Wild

'We want him back': Rossi remains unsigned, but Wild hold all the cards

Wolves

Wolves' new owners meet the media: What we learned in Las Vegas

Food & Culture

Culture

Minneapolis recommends two nonprofits to run shuttered Cowles Center

Culture

Minneapolis recommends two nonprofits to run shuttered Cowles Center

Arts’ Nest and Zenon Dance School have ambitious plans for the venue, which has been shuttered for more than a year.

Music

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Music

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Eat & Drink

The 30 restaurants most vital to the Twin Cities area right now

Eat & Drink

The 30 restaurants most vital to the Twin Cities area right now

Culture

Minneapolis recommends two nonprofits to run shuttered Cowles Center

Culture

Minneapolis recommends two nonprofits to run shuttered Cowles Center

Arts’ Nest and Zenon Dance School have ambitious plans for the venue, which has been shuttered for more than a year.

News & Politics

Twin Cities

Former staff allege addiction treatment provider Care Crossings is breaking law, putting clients at risk

The business is benefitting from inadequate client care, former Care Crossings employees said. The owner said her “out of the box” model helps people with substance use disorder.

Minneapolis

One Minneapolis police lieutenant earned about $500,000 last year amid record overtime costs

Greater Minnesota

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

Environment

Minneapolis rain gardens were built to reduce water pollution. Research shows they’re making it worse.

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Each week, the Minnesota Star Tribune's Nicole Norfleet zeros in on the places, stories and events around the state worth your time, money and attention.

Business

Number Crunch

Minnesota's highest-paid CEOs made 7% more, with top earner making $59.4M

Number Crunch

Minnesota's highest-paid CEOs made 7% more, with top earner making $59.4M

The 50 highest paid CEOs made a total of $495.5 million. Still, that figure is down 23.6% from 2020.

Business

Automatic money decisions, like target-date funds, makes investing easy

Business

Automatic money decisions, like target-date funds, makes investing easy

Business

Generosity in relationships can help make financial decisions

Business

Generosity in relationships can help make financial decisions

Number Crunch

Minnesota's highest-paid CEOs made 7% more, with top earner making $59.4M

Number Crunch

Minnesota's highest-paid CEOs made 7% more, with top earner making $59.4M

The 50 highest paid CEOs made a total of $495.5 million. Still, that figure is down 23.6% from 2020.

Outdoors

Outdoors

Forecasters say smoke will bring unhealthy air to all of Minnesota this weekend

Due to heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires, air quality is expected to reach levels unhealthy for everyone in most of Minnesota.

Outdoors

Anderson: Pheasant chicks drowned in Minnesota floods, but hope still springs for this year’s hunt

Dennis Anderson

Environment

The ‘Queen of Walleye’ raises millions of fish in St. Paul basement

This Week In Nature

Rascally raccoon ‘kits’ are exploring near you

URBAN PADDLING GUIDE

DISCOVER THE ROUTES

Canoe, kayak or paddleboard: Your ultimate guide to getting connected to the water in the Twin Cities metro area, whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro.

Explore

Elections

Former Wisconsin clerk who failed to count ballots broke laws, the state’s elections commission says

Democrats step up efforts to woo military veterans ahead of midterms

Woman in orange shirt with clipboard talks during a meeting of political volunteers in a leafy park.

New York City mayoral primary boosts hopes of Minneapolis democratic socialists

Curious Minnesota

A muskrat dining on vegetation on the shore of Bde Maka Ska scratches an itch Tuesday in Minneapolis ]

DAVID JOLES • david.joles@startribune.com

Tuesday, June 22, 2021, in Minneapolis, MN.

Why are there fewer muskrats in Minnesota?

Minnesotans aboard the Titanic told dramatic stories of survival and loss

What was the Twin Cities like in the Gilded Age?

Culture

Sally Rousse, shown near the entrance of the Cowles Center, has created a new show celebrating the building.

Minneapolis recommends two nonprofits to run shuttered Cowles Center

Paul McCartney performs on day 2 of the 2016 Desert Trip music festival at Empire Polo Field on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016, in Indio, Calif.

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Italian-style villa in south Minneapolis’ Linden Hills listed for nearly $1.8M

Travel

Delta defies summer travel slump as profits beat expectation, push up stock

Minneapolis nonprofit takes travelers across rural Italy: ‘Walk with your hearts’

Four reasons to take Delta’s new nonstop flight from MSP to Rome this summer

Health Care

Mental health care is limited in rural Minnesota. It’s also most vulnerable to Medicaid cuts.

Essentia clinicians join nurses on strike in northern Minnesota

Under an agreement with 33 states, e-cigarette maker Juul will pay $438.5 million and refrain from all youth marketing, paid product placement, advertising on public transportation, funding education programs, depicting anyone under 35 years old in advertisement or using cartoons in ads, among other marketing activities. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/TNS) ORG XMIT: 57810322W

Minneapolis City Council hikes price of e-cigarettes to $25 minimum

Outdoor Activities

Photos by Jim Williams
Female (front) and male house finches both sing (and enjoy grape jelly).

The Latest

Trump announces 30% tariffs against EU, Mexico to begin August 1

A colony of cormorants is dumping 14,500 pounds of feces in this south metro lake

'We want him back': Rossi remains unsigned, but Wild hold all the cards

Millville racer says goodbye to pro motocross at the track where it all began

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

With Signing Day a few months away, decisions looming for state's top boys basketball recruits

Fuel to Air India plane was cut off moments before crash, investigation report says

Automatic money decisions, like target-date funds, makes investing easy

Generosity in relationships can help make financial decisions

28 Palestinians including children killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

Tolkkinen: No shrubs, no native grasses. Was I really driving through southern Minnesota?

X-rays calm Correa after he’s injured on play at second base

State Department lays off over 1,300 employees under Trump administration plan

Trump tours Texas flood sites and defends officials as questions mount about response

Furor over Epstein files sparks clash between Bondi and Bongino at the Justice Department

US is selling weapons to NATO allies to give to Ukraine, Trump says

What’s the chance the Twins will draft a star with No. 16?

Loons' defense-first philosophy comes with a catch

Aurora host first home playoff match since 2022, with championship game in sight

Reusse: The last chance for the Twins' draft of 2020 is emerging at St. Paul

Former staff allege addiction treatment provider Care Crossings is breaking law, putting clients at risk

Former staff allege addiction treatment provider Care Crossings is breaking law, putting clients at risk

Minneapolis landlord opens homeless camps on his parking lots in defiance of city

The 30 restaurants most vital to the Twin Cities area right now

Forecasters say smoke will bring unhealthy air to all of Minnesota this weekend

One Minneapolis police lieutenant earned about $500,000 last year amid record overtime costs

Minneapolis rain gardens were built to reduce water pollution. Research shows they’re making it worse.

Reusse: Exceptional Pirates pitcher draws a crowd, or was it Nelly?

Reusse: Exceptional Pirates pitcher draws a crowd, or was it Nelly?

Social media star Livvy Dunne finds her way to Twins game and onto the Target Field scoreboard

Social media star Livvy Dunne finds her way to Twins game and onto the Target Field scoreboard

Italian-style villa in south Minneapolis’ Linden Hills listed for nearly $1.8M

Italian-style villa in south Minneapolis’ Linden Hills listed for nearly $1.8M

Summit Avenue residents plan new lawsuit over bike lane

Summit Avenue residents plan new lawsuit over bike lane

Greater Minnesota

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

Tolkkinen: No shrubs, no native grasses. Was I really driving through southern Minnesota?

Tolkkinen: No shrubs, no native grasses. Was I really driving through southern Minnesota?

Prosecutors argue ex-Sen. Justin Eichorn didn’t have ‘immunity’ to sex sting charges as former lawmaker

Prosecutors argue ex-Sen. Justin Eichorn didn’t have ‘immunity’ to sex sting charges as former lawmaker

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

St. Cloud business owner accused of swindling $240K from customers

CHS to close Twin Ports largest grain elevator, all 504 concrete silos

Ex-sheriff’s deputy in northwest Minnesota and wife charged with trafficking, animal cruelty in Tennessee

Duluth EPA lab employees put on leave after signing dissent letter

Opinion

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Opinion | Is it fair that immigrant children are often asked to bear so much weight?

Opinion | Is it fair that immigrant children are often asked to bear so much weight?

Opinion | Minnesota’s leaders are grieving. Let’s give them grace.

Readers Write: Fragmentation of the metro, Target’s DEI policies, Rep. Melissa Hortman

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Opinion | Minnesota’s leaders are grieving. Let’s give them grace.

Readers Write: Fragmentation of the metro, Target’s DEI policies, Rep. Melissa Hortman

Strib Voices

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Opinion | Is it fair that immigrant children are often asked to bear so much weight?

Reusse: Exceptional Pirates pitcher draws a crowd, or was it Nelly?

Sports

Gophers star Koi Perich is shining bright, even if he isn’t impressed

Gophers star Koi Perich is shining bright, even if he isn’t impressed

Reusse: Exceptional Pirates pitcher draws a crowd, or was it Nelly?

'We want him back': Rossi remains unsigned, but Wild hold all the cards

Wolves' new owners meet the media: What we learned in Las Vegas

Food & Culture

Minneapolis recommends two nonprofits to run shuttered Cowles Center

Minneapolis recommends two nonprofits to run shuttered Cowles Center

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

The 30 restaurants most vital to the Twin Cities area right now

The 30 restaurants most vital to the Twin Cities area right now

Minneapolis recommends two nonprofits to run shuttered Cowles Center

Minneapolis recommends two nonprofits to run shuttered Cowles Center

John Grisham, Stacey Abrams and more top authors headed to St. Paul for Talking Volumes