Scandals

Man allegedly vandalized Red Carpet in St. Cloud to avenge brother killed at bar

A witness saw 24-year-old Joe Ringwelski smashing a window at the Red Carpet nightclub Sunday morning around 9 a.m. Ringwelski, however, had no intention of breaking in.SEE ALSO: Scott Lipe charged with murder nearly six years after incident outside Mortimer's Bar Instead, a post on his Facebook acc ... More >>

Controversial bill allowing illegal immigrants to get Minnesota driver's licenses advances

If DFLers on the House and Senate Transportation Policy Committees have their way, Minnesota will soon become the fifth state allowing illegal immigrants to obtain a driver's license.SEE ALSO: Albert Lea sign controversy: "Deport Illegals" message sparks protestYesterday, on a party-line 10-7 vote, ... More >>

Amy Koch to appear at MinnRoast; will she be "gently skewered" about Brodkorb?

Amy Koch is the latest celebrity booked to appear at MinnRoast, MinnPost's April 26 event at the Pantages Theatre where "journalists and politicians" are "gently skewered."In a promotional post about the event, MinnPost notes that during Koch's 2011 appearance at MinnRoast, the "then-Senate Majority ... More >>

MN Majority thinks 86-year-old who voted twice shouldn't be charged with voter fraud

Well, here's a twist -- Minnesota Majority, the paranoid group that led the charge for the failed voter ID amendment, is coming to the defense of an 86-year-old woman who voted twice and has been charged with felony voter fraud.SEE ALSO: MNGOP Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer blames voter ID failure on "misinfor ... More >>

Maple Grove hockey player says he graduated from the "college of porn"

The Facebook profile of a junior player on the Maple Grove High School boys hockey team said he graduated from the "college of porn" and works at the Chippendales Strip Club in Las Vegas. His profile was changed over the weekend and the porn and Chippendales references were removed.THE MAPLE GROVE H ... More >>

MN Majority's Dan McGrath: "We have strong evidence that there are indicators of fraud"

Last month, Minnesota Majority's Dan McGrath took lots of heat for blaming the not-really-that-close defeat of the voter ID amendment on voter fraud, despite not presenting any evidence fraud actually occurred. SEE ALSO: Minnesota Majority wanted you to follow buses leaving polling places on electio ... More >>

Minnesota Majority wants you to follow buses leaving polling places on election day

In the fall of 2010, Minnesota Majority, the state's leading pro-voter ID group, created the Election Integrity Watch. As a press release published at the time noted, Election Watch "is a program designed to engage voters across the state to be vigilant, watching for and reporting on election fraud. ... More >>

Mike Freeman on GOPers making Franken-Coleman voter fraud allegations: "They are just liars"

In the most recent edition of the New Yorker, Jane Meyer takes a close look at the Republican lawyer who has spearheaded the drive for tighter voter ID laws nationally and here in Minnesota, Hans von Spakovsky.Along with John Fund, von Spakovsky recently cowrote a book entitled, "Who's Counting?: Ho ... More >>

Shattuck-St. Mary's 'discouragingly similar to cases like Penn State,' attorney says

Shattuck-St. Mary's School is increasingly coming under fire by authorities for the way it handled a series of inappropriate student-teacher relationships. On Monday, former drama teacher Lynn Seibel, 70, was charged with sexual misconduct while employed by the school for allegedly encouraging ... More >>

Todd Hoffner dealt with sex photo scandal while coaching at UW-Eau Claire

SEE ALSO: Todd Hoffner, MSU-Mankato football coach, allegedly shot sex videos of his own young kidsMSU-Mankato head football coach Todd Hoffner faces two felonies after allegedly shooting pornographic videos of his three young children. But it turns out this isn't the first time coach Hoffner has be ... More >>

Kerry Gauthier says he intentionally OD'd on pills as news of rest stop oral sex circulated

SEE ALSO:-- Rep. Kerry Gauthier says he's running for reelection despite rest-stop sex scandal-- Kerry Gauthier sex scandal: Are these his oral sex-seeking Craigslist posts?-- Rep. Gauthier, 56, claims rest-stop oral sex with Craigslist boy, 17, was consensualThis afternoon, Rep. Kerry Gauthier, D-D ... More >>

Lance Armstrong blasts Clark Griffith, attorney and alleged perv who reviewed doping case

One of the three people responsible for deciding to charge seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong with blood doping violations happens to be Minneapolis attorney Clark Griffith.Griffith, 70, is the son of former Twins owner Calvin Griffith. This winter, Griffith resigned from his law schoo ... More >>

Jenna Schultz, 26-year-old student teacher, allegedly sent Simley senior nude photo, sexts

Last week, we told you about Dakota County middle schoolers that got themselves suspended because of smartphone-snapped inappropriate photos. This week, another Dakota County sex scandal has emerged, this one suggesting teachers are equally capable of landing themselves in some very hot water for us ... More >>

Dan Feidt, producer of DRE drug scandal video, talks about Occupy, police, and the war on drugs

Dan Feidt is the journalist and producer primarily responsible for MK Occupy Minnesota, the video making the explosive allegation that Minnesota officers have offered Peavey Plaza protesters drugs as an enticement for participation in the State Patrol's now-suspended Drug Recognition Expert program. ... More >>

Heiruspecs' Sean McPherson talks music copyright with expert Peter DiCola

By Sean McPhersonSean McPherson teaches at McNally Smith College of Music, is a founding member of Twin Cities hip-hop collective Heiruspecs, and plays bass with Dessa's touring band. He recently conducted a conversation with a leader in the changing terrain of the music copyright world, Northwester ... More >>

Keith Ellison on voter ID approval: "Today is a sad day for democracy"

​Yesterday, the state Senate Local Government and Elections Committee approved a proposed voter ID constitutional amendment in a party-line 8-6 vote. The amendment now goes before another committee before coming before the whole Senate. A companion bill in the House has not yet been scheduled for ... More >>

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Jeff Anderson sues Missouri abbey for sexual abuse 'coverup'

AndersonAdvocatesAnderson has filed thousands of abuse lawsuits.​Twin Cities attorney Jeff Anderson filed a civil suit yesterday accusing a Missouri-based abbey of covering up sexual abuse by a former monk. Anderson is famous for his tireless pursuit against abusive priests and church coverup ... More >>

Bachmann's boning up on Edwards' infidelity

Her presidential ambitions have led Michele Bachmann to read books​As she advances inexorably towards declaring her candidacy for president, Michele Bachmann is preparing by reading books about the havoc wrought when megalomanaical politicians run for president. At the top of her list, appare ... More >>

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Jeffrey Anderson announces St. John's clergy abuse settlement

St. Paul attorney Jeffrey Anderson.​St. John's Abbey in Collegeville has settled lawsuits filed by nine men who say they suffered sexual abuse at the hands of some of the order's monks and priests since the 1960s. St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson announced the settlements, without detailing t ... More >>

Michael Beasley's growing golf obsession

Beasley is coming to a T.C. golf course near you.

Crunching on popcorn gets a man killed during a screening of "Black Swan"

A man is shot and killed during a screening of "Black Swan" for eating his popcorn too audibly

Jeffrey Anderson wonders if Milwaukee Archdiocese is hiding $75 million

Archbishop Listecki announced the Milwaukee Archdiocese bankruptcy in January.​The Archdiocese of Milwaukee says it's broke, and it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January "because priest-perpetrators sexually abused minors." It then hoped that a website offering some transparency o ... More >>

Vatican refuses to be served Jeffrey Anderson's sex abuse lawsuit

WikiPope Benedict: Return to sender.​Twin Cities attorney Jeffrey Anderson's attempt to serve Pope Benedict and other high church officials with a sex abuse lawsuit has failed -- for now. The Vatican more or less scrawled "return to sender" on the envelope, threw it in a Fed Ex box and said, ... More >>

Reps. Mike Benson and Mary Kiffmeyer want to see your ID at the polls

Reps. Mary Kiffmeyer and Mike Benson want to see your ID​Two Republican legislators are pushing bills that would require voters to bring photo IDs to the polls. Both bills are slated for a hearing at the House Government Operations and Elections Committee Thursday morning.

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Jeffrey Anderson opens U.K. office to fight pedophile priests

Father Francis Markey from his arrest in early 2010​Jeffrey Anderson, the St. Paul attorney who's made a career (and a mint) suing the Catholic church, has opened up a new practice in London to pursue the pedophile priest cases popping up across the pond. They've already got their sights on Rev. ... More >>

Jeffrey Anderson accuses bankrupt Wis. archdiocese of concealing abusers' names

Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki: Stonewalling?​Jeffrey Anderson, the St. Paul attorney tracking down Catholic priest sex abusers, says the Milwaukee Archdiocese's recent declaration of bankruptcy is an attempt to avoid being forced to reveal the abusers' names. "My office represents all 23 o ... More >>

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Milwaukee archdiocese declares bankruptcy and blames priest sexual predators

Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki​The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has been beset in recent years by its connections to pedophile priests who sexually abused children left in their safe keeping. Now it's paying the price. Today, the archdiocese declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and flatly laid th ... More >>

"Please ID Me" buttons not OK at polls

Image by dbaird"Please ID Me" buttons aren't allowed here​Today a federal judge told tea partiers NO, they may not wear "Please I.D. Me" buttons to the polls. So if someone asks to see your photo ID, just give 'em the hand. And if they take your picture, take one right back. Minnesota election la ... More >>

Dayton sex assault rumor knocked down with old-fashioned reporting

Mark Dayton was the victim of a smear campaign​The smear campaign against Mark Dayton began bubbling up last week--just in time, a callous political strategist might reason, to tip a tight Governors race.Last week Fox9 dedicated a segment to the scurrilous allegation--simultaneously sent to mult ... More >>

'Equality is the prime rib of America' and other surreal political moments in pop music

​Lady Gaga proclaimed yesterday that "Equality is the prime rib of America," simultaneously empowering and confusing the hell out of legions of GLBT activists as they rallied against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." While the nation's top socio-political scientists try to decode what Gaga could have possi ... More >>

Trevor Cook's reign of greed ends behind bars

Swindler Trevor Cook won't be preying on anyone anymore.​Trevor Cook preyed on the good will, and often the religious faith of hundreds of victims to run a tawdry, $190 million scam out of the Van Dusen Mansion in Minneapolis. Now he's going to prison for a very long time.

Supreme Court green lights Jeff Anderson's sex abuse lawsuit against the Vatican

Photo: romana klee​St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson can sue the Vatican on behalf of sex-abuse victims after a ruling Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court turned back a challenge by the Catholic Church that said it was immune from U.S. lawsuits. "Today's action by the Justices is an answer to the ... More >>

Father Raymond Francisco Schulte's whereabouts questioned

Photo: romana klee​St. John's Abbey has offered a mea culpa of sorts to St. Cloud Times, after erroneously telling the paper in May that Father Raymond Francisco Schulte, the target of a sex abuse lawsuit, was living at the abbey after the abuse allegation first surfaced. In fact, he was not.

Bret Michaels to bounce back at Medina Friday

1988, Los Angeles. Poison's Open Up and Say...Ahh! peaks at #2 on the American charts. By the end of the next year the band will have become one of the top five best-selling hard rock bands of the 1980s, behind Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Gn'R and the Crüe. It don't get better than this.

Jeff Anderson targets St. John's, monk in latest sex abuse lawsuit

Photo: romana kleeIt can't hurt​Jeff Anderson, the St. Paul attorney who has cut a wide swath of controversy as he files lawsuits against alleged sexually abusive priests in the Catholic Church all over the world, has now trained his sites on the monks of St. John's Abbey in Collegeville. On ... More >>

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Hot Tub Time Machine, Greenberg: See 'em or flee 'em?

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Kevin and Pat Williams can sue NFL in Hennepin County, rules judge

The Williams Wall can legally sue the NFL in Hennepin County for suspending the duo for four games. The defensive linemen claim the suspension flies in the face of state drug-testing laws.

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