The St. Paul City Attorney’s office is not filing charges in connection with a protest in January at Cities Church in St. Paul where dozens of people were arrested, including journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon and civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, KARE 11 reported this week.
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In a statement, the City Attorney’s office said the “right to peacefully protest is protected, as is the right to exercise one’s religious beliefs. Balancing these equally important rights is paramount to our decision today.”
The plan to redevelop the People’s Way, a former gas station on the corner of 38th and Chicago in George Floyd Square, has been denied by Minneapolis City Council committee, MPR News reported Wednesday.
The development plan came after the city searched for a community organization to lead it and selected the Minnesota Agape Movement, which some residents and council members opposed. The full City Council will now vote on the plan, which, if denied, will either restart the search process or prompt city staff to recommend a new development partner.
Three children and one adult have been released from the hospital after a school bus crashed into a Hamline University building in St. Paul, WCCO News reported Wednesday. Officials say approximately 12 children were on the bus when the crash occurred at the Robbins Science Center, near the intersection of North Snelling and Hewitt avenues.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced a complete closure of Interstate 35 in Duluth as construction crews work to replace a pedestrian bridge just south of Mesaba Avenue, the Duluth News Tribune reported Wednesday. The interstate will be closed from Friday, June 12 until Monday, June 15.
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The most expensive home ever built in Minnesota is still for sale two years after it first hit the market, Mpls.St.Paul Magazine reported Wednesday. Lake Point Estate, which sits on roughly 8 acres on Lake Minnetonka in Wayzata and cost more than $90 million to construct, could be yours for just $50 million.
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