Minnesota Lawyer

The board of a metro-area charter school that has fought claims that it improperly promoted religion has decided not to appeal a state decision that forced its closure earlier this summer.

A new group called Draw the Line Minnesota hopes to involve voters in redrawing political maps without regard for incumbents and other partisan concerns.

A judge has blocked AT&T’s plan to build a 450-foot cellphone tower near the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northeastern Minnesota.

Crystal and Falcon Heights may soon join 11 other Minnesota cities by offering opposite-sex and same sex-couples a way to have their relationships recognized through domestic partner registries.

The case of Somali men who are believed to have left Minnesota to join a terror group in their homeland was a focus of a House Homeland Security committee hearing in Washington.

A Douglas County District Court judge says she needs more time to decide whether a man convicted in 2006 of killing his infant daughter should be released while he waits for his new trial.

A Somali-American accused of providing money and people to al-Shabab has pleaded not guilty to terror charges.

WILLMAR, Minn. — A Willmar man who acknowledged molesting young girls at his wife’s home day care is scheduled to serve three years in prison on two second-degree criminal charges.

The Minnesota Supreme Court denied a defense petition seeking review of Gordon Douglas Weaver’s conviction for the October 16, 1999, murder of his wife, Jean Ann Weaver.

The state Supreme Court has upheld $5 million in damages for a man who claims his father and brother unfairly squeezed him out of the family’s giant beef jerky company.