Minnesota Lawyer

Twenty counties have switched to an electronic system for filing criminal complaints, called eCharging. State and local officials told Minnesota Public Radio it has improved efficiency and reduced mistakes in court records.

An attorney for a Minnesota teenager accused of killing two convenience store clerks in northern Iowa has asked the Iowa Supreme Court to combine two murder trials.

A Minnesota judge has sentenced a driver to four years in prison for setting off a fatal chain-reaction crash when she reached for her cellphone.

The next congressional election is 18 months away, but you wouldn't know it listening to the radio or watching television around Duluth and the Iron Range, where freshman U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack is taking heat over a proposed overhaul of Medicare.

A bill that would make it harder for public worker unions to spend members' dues on elections and charity is headed for the state Senate floor.

A bill that would change the state's laws on gun permits and the right to use deadly force in cases of self-defense is getting a hearing before a Minnesota House public safety committee.

After another stinging rebuke from the same judge who lifted its lockout, the NFL took its fight over how to run the $9 billion business to a federal appeals court Thursday, April 28, as players pushed for free agency and other rules just hours before the draft.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Minnesota woman on charges of threatening Vice President Joe Biden and other federal officials.

The widow of a worker who died last year at a Minnesota hog farm has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the operation.

More than 40 percent of ex-cons commit crimes within three years of their release and wind up back behind bars, despite billions in taxpayer dollars spent on prison systems that are supposed to help rehabilitate them, according to a study released Wednesday.