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Sarah Mearhoff

Mearhoff is a Minnesota Capitol Correspondent for Forum News Service. You can reach her at smearhoff@forumcomm.com or 651-290-0707.

Minnesota's two U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith signed the letter one day after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul.
The plan is designed to help prevent Minnesotans from seeing skyrocketed energy bills this fall after last winter's polar vortex drove natural gas prices through the roof.
In the federal government's crackdown on sex trafficking in the 1950s, law enforcement made an alliance with trafficking victims, whose testimonies helped fuel the arrests of more than 100 perpetrators in the Midwest.
Top lawmakers in St. Paul are calling for investigation and potential reforms to the state Senate's sexual harassment policies after a former staffer accused a colleague of harassment.
The Minnesota Attorney General's Office is accepting applications to review convictions for inmates who say they are innocent.
Active hospitalizations rose by 108 over the same period.
Thirty-two Minnesota legislators are urging the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to temporarily suspend Enbridge's permits for the Line 3 pipeline replacement project after nine drilling fluid spills have been reported along the project and the state faces widespread drought.
Growing wildfires, trickling streams and shriveled crops: all corners of Minnesota are seeing the impacts of this summer's drought.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order restricting conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ minors, but urged the politically divided Legislature to pass an outright ban into law.
When Carol Thompson was brutally attacked in her picturesque St. Paul home on March 6, 1963, the Twin Cities were shaken up. Her husband T. Eugene Thompson would eventually be convicted of conspiring the first-degree murder gone wrong.