The Latest Breaking News from Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS — Longstanding downtown Minneapolis gay bar The Saloon will no longer sell Bud Light or other Anheuser-Busch beverages because of how the beer brand handled backlash from a marketing campaign involving a transgender influencer.

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said his department is investigating the unauthorized release of Metro Transit video showing the collision late Friday that killed five people in one of the vehicles.

MINNEAPOLIS — Taylor Swift's Eras Tour coming to town this week is the biggest, best, most awesome thing to happen to the area since maybe the advent of electricity.

The victims were named by their local mosque as Sabiriin Ali, Sahra Gesaade, Salma Abdikadir, Sagal Hersi and Siham Adam, who were aged between 17 and 20

MINNEAPOLIS — Mickey Lolich probably just rolled his eyes.

MINNEAPOLIS — Five young women had just left Karmel Mall after getting henna applied for a friend's wedding when they were struck and killed Friday night in south Minneapolis by a speeding motorist who authorities say ran a red light on Lake Street.

MINNEAPOLIS — The most perfect strike thrown by a Twins player on Saturday — and there were a lot of good ones — was unleashed by Carlos Correa, a spin-and-fire one-hopper from short left field that turned the Tigers' lone scoring chance into an inning-ending out.

MINNEAPOLIS — Baseball is stupid, as Eric Haase once famously said.

MINNEAPOLIS — On Friday morning, John Pope answered his phone while boarding a flight to Atlanta. The U.S. Department of Justice had just released the results of a scathing federal investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, including 28 recommendations for institutional change.

The Justice Department has issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floyd’s killing because of inadequate oversight and an unwieldy process for investigating complaints

Minneapolis police used gratuitous force, discriminated against black and Native American residents, and retaliated against people exercising their First Amendment rights.