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Wizard of Oz red slippers

76-year-old man expected to plead guilty to nearly 2-decade cold case over theft of Judy Garland’s ruby slippers

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell gives a thumbs up as he passes by a rally for supporters of former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Attorneys who’ve been defending Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies have asked for court permission to quit, saying he owes them unspecified millions of dollars and can’t pay the millions more that he’ll owe in legal expenses going forward. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Mike Lindell admits he’s out of money as his lawyers seek permission to stop defending him, citing ‘serious financial risk’

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

North Dakota Republican state, from left, Reps. Mark Sanford, Bob Martinson and Mike Nathe attend a meeting of the Legislature’s Budget Section, Thursday, June 29, 2023, at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. The three lawmakers sit on a panel that wrote the 2023-25 budget for North Dakota’s higher education system. Sanford also chairs the Legislature’s interim Higher Education Committee, which will be exploring issues of potential impacts from Minnesota’s North Star Promise tuition program. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

Minnesota’s new free college tuition program is sparking fear in neighboring North Dakota: ‘This has catastrophic implications’

By Jack Dura, Steve Karnowski, and others

Uber headquarters in San Francisco, California, US

Uber driver pay raise bill blocked by Minnesota governor

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

FILE – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison speaks at a press conference at the State Capitol on Dec. 4, 2019, in St. Paul, Minn. Ellison is slated to lead off opening statements expected for Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in his state’s lawsuit against Juul Labs – marking the first time any of the thousands of cases against the e-cigarette maker over its alleged marketing to young people is going to play out in a courtroom. (Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP, File)

Minnesota kicks off its $100 million trial against e-cigarette maker Juul for allegedly targeting young people and hooking a ‘generation’ on nicotine

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

Derek Chauvin

The ex-police officer who murdered George Floyd was also a tax dodger

By Steve Karnowski, Trisha Ahmed, and others

FILE – A worker heads into the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo., on Oct. 12, 2020. Packers Sanitation Services Inc., or PSSI, one of the country’s largest food safety cleaning service providers employed more than 100 children as young as 13 in dangerous jobs at 13 meat processing plants in eight states, including JBS, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Company that hired minors to clean skull-splitters and bone saws at meatpacking plants fined $1.5 million

By Steve Karnowski and The Associated Press

In this screen grab from video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin accompanied by defense attorney Eric Nelson addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over sentencing, June 25, 2021, in the trial of Chauvin, in the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. (Court TV, via AP, Pool)

Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for murdering George Floyd

By Amy Forliti, Steve Karnowski, and others

People defy the curfew to pay their respects at the makeshift memorial outside Cup Foods where George Floyd died in Minneapolis. An independent autopsy found Floyd died of asphyxiation.

Independent autopsy finds George Floyd was asphyxiated by sustained pressure

By Amy Forliti, Steve Karnowski, and others