GOP Candidate Brad Finstad formally requested a recount following Tuesday night’s election where he came up short by 323 votes to DFL Candidate Jake Johnson. “Thank you to the 326,000 of my fellow southern Minnesotans who turn out to vote on Tuesday,” Finstad said. “We will work to ...
NEW YORK (AP) — AI stocks bounced back Friday and recovered some of their sell-off from the last two days. The rest of the U.S. stock market was mixed, though, following a whirlwind few days of Wall Street trying to sort out what this week's sweeping victories by Democrats in the U.S. midterm elections will mean for the economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% and trimmed its loss for the week to 2.7%, which was its worst since President Donald Trump shook markets in April 2025 with his "Liberation Day" tariffs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 237 points, or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq ...
MINNEOTA — This week, Minneota Public Schools announced it is seeking information on vandalism to a statue at K.P. Kompelien Field. A post on the Minneota school district’s Facebook page said the school district was asking for the public’s help in identifying those responsible for graffiti to the Viking statue at the field. The vandalism happened sometime last weekend, the school district’s post said. Minneota Superintendent Scott Monson told the Independent on Thursday that he was unable to answer specific questions about the vandalism because the incident is currently under ...
MARSHALL — Theft reported at 7:26 p.m. Thursday on the 1200 block of East Main Street is under investigation, Marshall Police said. MINNEOTA — The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office assisted Minneota Police in an incident at 11:53 a.m. Thursday on the 100 block of Century Drive, the Sheriff’s Office said. MARSHALL — An incident reported at 10:28 a.m. Thursday on the 300 block of Jewett Street is under investigation, the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office said. MARSHALL — A female was arrested on a warrant in a traffic stop at 1:00 a.m. Thursday at the intersection of ...
The national wave of anti-Trump fervor that swept the country Tuesday seems to have permeated every geographic region of Minnesota: Every Minnesota House district shifted leftward in 2026 compared to 2024, with several districts moving left by over 15 percentage points. In 10 districts, that meant voters who chose Republican legislators in 2024 voted for a Democrat in 2026, ousting several Republican incumbents. In six districts, Trump-voting legislative districts voted for a Democrat for the Minnesota House in 2026. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party will take control of both the ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he'll change more than 500 death sentences in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole, though the state Supreme Court will have the final say in hundreds of those cases. "I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California's values, undermines the foundations of our legal system, and diminishes each of us," Newsom said in a public letter. Newsom's decision comes as he prepares to leave office after eight years and considers a run for ...
