Australian unemployment has fallen to an eight-month low, boosting confidence in the economy. The rate of unemployment fell to 5.5% in December from 5.6% in November, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. The figures came as a surprise to many economists, who had expected a big rise. The fall was driven by a jump in the number of people in part-time work. During...Continue reading »
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By MARC KOVAC COLUMBUS — The Ohio House OK’d a resolution Wednesday to seek voter support to continue funding for a program that backs high-tech companies. On a vote of 85-13, the chamber signed off on the five-year, $950 million continuation of the Third Frontier program. The resolution next heads to the Ohio Senate for further consideration. Both chambers...Continue reading »
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson and two DFL lawmakers on Wednesday announced legislation that would limit rate increases charged by state-regulated utilities like Duluth-based Minnesota Power. The changes could delay how quickly rate increases take effect and could spur utilities to be more cautious in claiming which expenses should be covered by those higher...Continue reading »
Minneapolis — A Somali man was in federal court in Minneapolis Tuesday, challenging charges that he lied to the FBI in a case related to the disappearance of local Somali men. Abdow Munye Abdow, 26, was among several men in a car stopped by Nevada state troopers in October. Those men are suspected of returning to Somalia to fight with the jihadist group Al Shabab. In...Continue reading »
A man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for the shooting death of 30-year-old Ryan Nissalke in Rochester.Twenty-one-year-old Muhidin Omar Abukar is one of the two men who have pleaded guilty in the case.On Tuesday, the Post-Bulletin of Rochester reports, Judge Joseph Wieners followed the plea agreement and sentenced Abukar to 14 years.Nissalke’s mother, Renee...Continue reading »
OTTAWA — Singling-out Muslim-Canadians for “intrusive†screening could backfire and hamper intelligence-gathering efforts, community leaders warned yesterday. U.S. measures that target individuals from specific countries — such as Lebanon, Pakistan and Somalia — could lead to “the radicalization of our youth,†said the Canadian...Continue reading »
Dahir Mirreh Jibreel, a teacher, will head up the St. Paul-based Somali Justice Advocacy Center A Minneapolis social studies teacher who once served as a chief of staff to a Somali president has been appointed director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul. Dahir Mirreh Jibreel, 56, replaces Omar Jamal, who has taken a job with the Permanent Mission of the...Continue reading »
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohioans: Uncle Sam wants you … to participate in the 2010 Census. “Ten questions, it’ll take 10 minutes, but the input will last you for the next decade,” said Ohio Treasurer Kevin Boyce, who co-chairs the Complete Count Ohio committee. That was the message at a sparsely attended kickoff rally held Monday at the Statehouse,...Continue reading »
A boom in natural-gas drilling in Pennsylvania could bring millions of barrels of salty toxic waste into Ohio. Since then, gas companies have raced to open drilling sites. But the Marcellus shale wells produce so much brine that Pennsylvania officials are, for the first time, limiting how much can be dumped in that state’s rivers. Tom Stewart, vice president of...Continue reading »
Minneapolis police said Sunday that cooperation from the Somali community helped lead to the arrests of two juveniles they believe are responsible for Wednesday’s triple slaying. the suspects will be charged soon.” “We are confident that we have identified all of the people responsible for the incident,” Dolan said, adding as the investigation...Continue reading »
Minneapolis police said Sunday afternoon that a second juvenile has been arrested in connection with the killing of three people at Seward Market and Halal meats on Wednesday. Capt. Amelia Huffman said at a news conference that the youth turned himself in. Investigators believe they now have the two suspects who were in the store at the time of the shooting. Here is...Continue reading »
A TAXI driver from Somalia told a court he had never been as frightened in his life as the moment he was attacked by a drunken thug. Muktar Hassan said the terrifying late-night attack was worse than anything he had suffered in the war-torn African nation. Jamie Roberts hurled racist abuse at Mr Hassan before punching him the face and putting his foot through his car...Continue reading »
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis Police Homicide Unit says an arrest has been made in the triple murder at the Seward Market on East Franklin Avenue on Wednesday evening. The arrest was made overnight in Minneapolis by the Violent Criminal Apprehension Team with homicide investigators. The suspect, a 17-year-old male, is at the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center....Continue reading »
Star Tribune — Bundled in parkas, scarves and wool stocking caps to stave off a biting January chill, hundreds of East African immigrants gathered in a snowy Burnsville cemetery Friday to remember three of their own who were shot to death in a south Minneapolis market two nights before. With police still searching for their killers, cousins Abdifatah and Mohamed...Continue reading »
Passengers alarmed by what they believed was suspicious activity by a Somali national resulted in a plane’s being turned back to the gate from the runway at Philadelphia International Airport yesterday, authorities said. There was no threat, security officials determined after investigating the man and searching the plane, authorities said. The Somali, whose name...Continue reading »
Police were searching Thursday morning for whoever shot three men to death Wednesday night in an apparent failed robbery at a south Minneapolis market, shocking residents of what a police spokesman called “a pretty good neighborhood” and bringing the city’s 2010 homicide count to four just one week into the year. Video Police did not identify the...Continue reading »
