A federal judge today dismissed a challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's oversight of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System water quality permit issued to Poly Met Mining Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of PolyMet Mining Corp. .The challenge, filed in September 2019 by the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, had argued that EPA should have .
Saint Paul, Minnesota (Newsfile Corp. - February 16, 2021) - A federal judge today dismissed a challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's oversight of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
Corrections officers of color file lawsuit, claim they weren t allowed to guard Chauvin
Eight corrections officers at Ramsey County jail filed the lawsuit on Tuesday.
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Eight corrections officers who allege they were ordered to avoid Derek Chauvin while he was in jail because they re not white have filed a lawsuit against Ramsey County.
The corrections officers, who identify as Black, Hispanic, Pacific-Islander and mixed-race, work at the Ramsey County Adult Detention Center (ADC), where Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder George Floyd, was being held after he was charged.
The eight jail workers say ADC Superintendent Steve Lydon gave verbal orders prohibiting them from interacting with and guarding Chauvin, as well as being ordered not to go anywhere near the fifth floor where he was being held, the 30-page lawsuit filed in Ramsey County District Court on Tuesday says.
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An 11-year-old boy shot five times alongside his mother and teenage sister implicated the man who did it before dying at the hospital, according to murder charges.
TeKeith Syvone Jones, 26, was charged Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court with three counts of second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of his ex-girlfriend, D Zondria Wallace, 30, and her two children, La Porsha, 14, and Ja Corbie, 11. Jones remains jailed in lieu of $5 million bail.
In a police interview, Jones eventually confessed to the shooting but gave inconsistent answers on the motive. Jones didn t know why he killed them, charges say, but claimed he was trying to save them.