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A money transfer business that sends remittances from Minnesota to Somalia is re-opening to allow transfers in small dollar amounts.
A Minnesota judge said this week he would no longer hear cases at a courthouse that he believes is unsafe because of its lack of weapons screening.
A bank that handles the majority of money transfers from Minnesota to Somalia said Friday it would continue that service until Dec. 30, allowing funds to keep flowing into the war-torn and famine-stricken country while officials discuss ways to reduce the bank's risk.
The FBI is working to obtain the remains of a suicide bomber in Somalia, to try to determine whether he was one of at least 21 young Somali-American men believed to have left Minneapolis in recent years to join the terrorist group al-Shabab.
A jury has resumed deliberations in the case of two Minnesota women accused of conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist group in Somalia.
An FBI agent testifying in the trial of two Minnesota women accused of funneling money to a terrorist group in Somalia says authorities began investigating them in the summer of 2008.
A U.S. court hearing for a Somali man accused of helping finance fighters for the terror group al-Shabab came to an abrupt end Friday when he collapsed in court and had to be taken to the hospital by paramedics.
The head of a Minnesota sports memorabilia company was charged Thursday with orchestrating a scheme to sell fraudulent sports merchandise online, including fake baseball jerseys he claimed were worn during games by Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire and Albert Pujols.
Mohamed Hassan gets emotional when he hears about the famine devastating Somalia, recalling his own months-long walk from Mogadishu to Kenya two decades ago as a teenager fleeing the civil war.
A Minnesota man pleaded guilty Monday to a terror charge for helping Somali men travel from Minneapolis to their homeland to take up arms with a militant group, averting what would have been the first trial in a long-running federal investigation into the recruiting of U.S. fighters for al-Shabab.
Lyda Hanson thought she was one of the lucky ones. Even before graduating from beauty school, she landed a job at a "perfect" salon and was ready to get started on her dream career.
The FBI has confirmed that one of two suicide bombers in last week's attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, was a Minnesota man.
A Somali man who lived in Minnesota until a few months ago has been accused of providing money and people to the terror group al-Shabab in Somalia, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
Another Somali man has been charged in Minnesota with providing assistance to a terror group in his homeland that has been recruiting young men from the state.
A former nurse from Minnesota who sought out depressed people online and was convicted of encouraging two to commit suicide has notified the court that he plans to appeal his conviction, his attorney said Wednesday.
The death of Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard was an accident, due to a toxic mix of alcohol and the powerful painkiller oxycodone. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner announced Boogaard's cause of death Friday, saying it was unclear exactly when the 28-year-old died. Boogaard was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment last Friday, five months after he sustained a season-ending concussion with the New York Rangers.
When a prankster dumped a box of glittering confetti in Newt Gingrich's lap at a book-signing, the presidential candidate brushed off the stunt with a smile and quipped that it was "nice to live in a free country."
When Meredith Aby met with members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in 2006, she asked what it would take to get them to stop fighting. Jess Sundin did the same during her trip to Colombia 11 years ago.
A former nurse who stalked suicide chat rooms online and was convicted of encouraging two depressed people to kill themselves was sentenced Wednesday to 360 days in jail by a southern Minnesota judge who said the defendant showed a minimal level of remorse despite admitting his deeds were "dark" and "disgusting."
Prosecutors have accused a Minnesota man of hacking into other people's Facebook and other computer accounts and stealing photos of women to post on adult websites.
Two women from southeast Minnesota accused of sending money to a terror group in Somalia will face trial Oct. 3.
A woman convicted of threatening to bomb a plane in 1991 is back in federal custody for allegedly threatening to kill and "slowly cut skin off" the FBI agent who arrested her 20 years ago.
Twelve people have been charged in a $10 million bank fraud conspiracy that authorities say depended on identity theft by employees in some of America's largest banks, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
The attorney for a Minnesota man accused of trolling the Internet for suicidal people and encouraging two to kill themselves told a judge Thursday that his client's online conversations had no direct effect on the victims because they already planned to die
A Minnesota nurse who was supposed to sedate a patient before surgery instead took most of the painkillers for herself and told the patient to "man up" — giving him such a small dose of medication that he was writhing in pain on the operating table, according to criminal charges.
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