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Western officials suspect Russia was behind a plot to put incendiary packages on cargo planes
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday called media reports about the alleged sabotage plot an example of a ”vague fabrication.”
Associated Press writers Jill Lawless and Danica Kirka in London, Dasha Litvinova in Tallinn, Estonia, Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin, Aamer Madhani in Washington, D.C., :and Liudas Dapkus in Vilnius, Lithuania, contributed.
A man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries Tuesday night after he was found in St. Paul with a gunshot injury to the head.
Just before 5 p.m., police were called to the area of Rice Street and University Avenue W. for a report of shots fired, according to St. Paul Police Sgt. Mike Ernster. When police arrived, they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound who was not conscious and not breathing.
St. Paul fire paramedics transported the man to Regions Hospital, where he was treated for life-threatening injuries.
According to initial reports, the shooting suspects are believed to have fled the area on foot. As of 7 p.m. Tuesday, there had not been any arrests.
Investigators are still trying to determine the circumstances that led to the shooting and searching for information on who is responsible.
Christiansen argued that since heading to Washington, Cramer had lost touch with North Dakota issues. She raised those claims in one television ad featuring rancher Frank Tomac, who supported Trump and said, ”When they go to Washington like Kevin Cramer, folks back home suffer.”
Cramer served in the U.S. House from 2013 to 2019, and on the state’s Public Service Commission from 2003 to 2012. He also has served as state tourism director and economic development and finance director under then-Gov. Ed Schafer.
Cramer has been campaigning while his son Ian Cramer faces charges in connection with a December 2023 vehicle pursuit and crash that killed a sheriff’s deputy, Paul Martin, in Mercer County northwest of the state capital of Bismarck. Ian Cramer pleaded guilty to all the charges, including a homicide offense, in September and has yet to be sentenced.
This story has been corrected to show Christiansen is 42, not 43.
A single western Twin Cities contest on Tuesday’s ballot will provide the tie-breaking vote in the Minnesota state Senate, determining whether Republicans or DFLers control the chamber.
Republican Kathleen Fowke, in her second run for office, seeks to turn the seat red. Former Sen. Ann Johnson Stewart, a Democrat, wants voters to return her to St. Paul.
All 134 state House of Representatives seats were on the ballot Tuesday. But of the 67 Senate seats, this was the only one on the ballot because of a special election.
Results are expected later tonight.
This Senate district that surrounds Lake Minnetonka is is up for grabs because Sen. Kelly Morrison, DFL-Deephaven, stepped down to run for the Third Congressional District seat. She was on the ballot Tuesday as well, facing Republican former judge Tad Jude.
Morrison resigned the seat after the 2024 legislative session, leaving the Senate at a tie with 33 DFLers and 33 Republicans. The Senate’s tie hasn’t been an issue because it hasn’t gone into session since Morrison’s departure, but the 2025 legislative session starts Jan. 14.
Fowke, 60, a real estate agent and entrepreneur, campaigned as a pragmatist, a moderate who would restore balance at the Capitol after two years of the DFL controlling both chambers and the governor’s office.
Republican Kathleen Fowke leads a group of volunteers on a door knocking campaign in Long Lake on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch told the Star Tribune last month that it’s a tight race with two good candidates. “Neither side should take this one for granted, and it’s for all the marbles in the Minnesota Senate,” she said.
