Minnesota Lawyer

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.

Officers have uncovered nearly 400 knives, ammunition, pepper spray and other items considered to be weapons during the first three months of metal detector screening at the Portage County Courthouse.

Retaliation remains the most common claim of workplace bias among federal employees, according to a new Equal Employment Opportunity Commission report.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to hear a challenge to Minnesota’s law requiring disclosure of corporate political donations.

The whistle-blower who exposed the $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme of Wayzata businessman Tom Petters has been transferred back to Minnesota ahead of her release from custody next month.