Bob CollinsSince his arrest in early 2014 on the suspicion that he was planning an attack on his Waseca high school, we have not heard from John LaDue, who is now trying to put his life back together.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Crime and Justice
At a hearing for a man who was likely to go to jail and who hadn’t yet met his one-month-old son, Judge Amber Wolf struck a blow for decency in a business that it’s not often apparent. Read more →
The Minnesota Supreme Court today backed a lower court which had refused to allow a former state employee to sue officials in the Dayton administration for information and remarks given to a Minnesota Public Radio reporter about conditions at the state security hospital in St. Peter. Michael Harlow, a psychiatrist at the hospital, was fired Read more →
Writer Yasin Mohamud pens an all too familiar tale in the Star Tribune’s 10,000 Takes series about the time he was stopped by the cops in Edina because he fit the description of those involved with ‘keying’ cars at the Macaroni Grill. He was 16 at the time, he writes today. Read more →
The issue is an intriguing one that has not been addressed by either the Minnesota Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a person have to know he’s soliciting sex from a minor to be convicted of soliciting sex from a minor?
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Is this a stand for free speech or a chance to get some free advertising? Either motivation behind a lawsuit by a carpet cleaning franchise in Minnesota against the U.S. Olympic Organizing Committee would be the American way.
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Andrew Gryskiewicz apparently isn’t like most people.
He’s the pizza delivery guy who was shot during a robbery two weeks ago. The bullet went through his heart. Read more →
The good news is that Quinton C. Hesse, 21, wasn’t texting and driving when he hit a police car in Hudson, Wis., as originally thought in March. Read more →
It can be hard being a cop trying to do the right thing, but perhaps it’s time to stop with the pulling-motorists-over-to-give-them-presents thing. Read more →
Our long drought of creepy clown sightings has finally been broken and for this we thank you, Wisconsin. Read more →
Of those who defend freedom and protect our civil rights, no group is less appreciated than the public defender, a fact which allows governors to starve the system, denying rightful legal representation to the poor who are charged with crimes. Read more →
The Minnesota Supreme Court declared today that school districts can’t expel a student for violating a no-gun policy if the student didn’t willfully violate the policy. Read more →
I can assure you that I’ve spent much of the day today looking for some uplifting news story, as is the wont of NewsCut.
Unfortunately, there isn’t any. Quite the opposite in fact. Read more →
There should be an extra citation for bad excuses. Or a reward for the effort. Read more →
Ladue is a troubled young man who was charged with plotting a massacre at his high school. How do you go back to a small town after a case like this? You don’t, his father’s GoFundMe effort says. Read more →