Carjackings in Minneapolis up 537% last month: report

Har Mar Superstar has taken up a new job as a postman.The ’00s indie mainstay shared an article on Twitter this weekend from the Mpls. St Paul Magazine in his native Minnesota, which profiles his new career change.As explained in the article, Har Mar – real name Sean Tillmann – began working for the United States Postal Service in November.

direct to your inboxA cyclist who was seriously injured in a crash in south Manchester last month has died in hospital.The 31-year-old had been receiving treatment at Salford Royal Hospital following the smash in Didsbury on Saturday, November 28.Police were called to Kingsway, at the junction with Fog Lane, following reports a blue Honda Civic crashed with a bike at around 12.25am.Emergency services attended and the cyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries.He died on Friday (December

A judge in Minnesota is upholding his decision to livestream the trial against the four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd.  In a ruling issued Friday, Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill cited the immense global interest in the case and limited courthouse space amid the "unique and unprecedented situation" brought by the coronavirus pandemic, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.The trial is scheduled for March 2021.

whisky imports into America in his final few days in office.The outgoing US president’s trade chief Robert Lighthizer is negotiating with the UK to secure a mini trade deal.Lighthizer suggested tariffs on Scotch whisky could be cut if a post-Brexit deal is successful.A tariff of 25 per cent has been imposed on US imports of Scotch whisky since October 2019 when the industry was caught up in a tit-for-tat trade war following a row over subsidies to aerospace firms.Lighthizer told the BBC: “I’m

Two Minneapolis City Council Members are denying their involvement with the "defund the police" movement just days after the council approved a budget that shifted approximately $8 million from the police department and months after they joined colleagues in calling for the dismantlement of the Minnesota city's department.

The owner of a Minneapolis hair salon that was burned down during riots over the death of George Floyd denounced Friday the newly approved plan by city leaders to slash the police budget. The Minneapolis City Council passed a budget Thursday that will cut its police funding by $8 million and use the money for mental health and violence prevention programs.  "We need police.

Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis President Bob Kroll on Thursday morning criticized a decision by the Minneapolis City Council to move $8 million from the city's police force to mental health and violence prevention programs as part of the latest city budget.  The cut comes as Minneapolis, like many other major American cities, is dealing with a spike in violence. It also comes months after the death of George Floyd, a Black man, who died while in Minneapolis police custody.

The Minneapolis City Council, the city where George Floyd earlier this year died while in the custody of its police department, passed a budget Thursday morning that will cut its police funding by $8 million and use the money for mental health and violence prevention programs.  The plan for the shifting of police funding, called "Safety for All," follows the city council's stalled attempt to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department earlier this year.

Famed filmmaker Spike Lee presented Darnella Frazier with an award for courage after she recorded the killing of George Floyd.

An unidentified St. Anthony, Minnesota resident has received an anonymous letter on Monday chastising them for their Christmas light display.

Prince Harry has filed another libel case, this time against Associated Newspapers, the same group Meghan Markle is suing for publishing the letter to her father, Thomas Markle.

direct to your inboxFrom the man who killed his 'best friend for 20 years' after slamming into roundabout at 'over 100mph' - to the 'Iceman' Mark Fellows who was handed another life sentence for gangland attack before he murdered Salford's 'Mr Big' Paul Massey, these are some of the criminals locked up in November.The region's courts have given out hefty prison sentences for all manner of crimes last month with M.E.N.

When actor Robert Loggia died in 2015, his widow, Audrey Loggia, was notified by the SAG Health Plan that she was entitled to receive continuing health coverage as a surviving spouse “for the remainder of her lifetime or until she remarried.” But a class action lawsuit filed today against the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan and its trustees says that “before either of those circumstances appreciated, the Plan notified her on November 24, 2020, that she would lose coverage on September 30, 2021” under

Debra White Plume was a Lakota activist who was one of the leaders of the protests at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).White Plume was a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, and her home at the Pine Ridge reservation was where Native American activists occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1973 and demanded that the U.S. government honor its treaties with their tribes.