Minnesota
Duluth blanks Southwest Minnesota State
DULUTH, MN (Dakota News Now) – Minnesota Duluth showed why it has the No. 4 ranked defense in the country on Saturday afternoon limiting Southwest Minnesota State to 77 yards and six first downs in earning a 62-0 victory in Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference football at Malosky Stadium.
UMD, which picked to win the NSIC, improves to 3-1 overall, 2-1 NSIC. The Bulldogs scored a defensive touchdown on the opening drive of the game and never looked back in shutting out the Mustangs for the second straight season and sixth all-time.
SMSU drops to 0-4 overall, 0-3 NSIC. The Mustangs return home next Saturday for a non-conference game versus Nebraska-Kearney starting at 1 p.m. It will be the first-ever meeting between the two schools.
SMSU quarterback Kendon Krogmanplayed the first half and completed 7 of 19 passes for 58 yards and one interception. True freshman Drew Kluenderentered the game in the second half and finished 3 of 10 for 15 yards. The UMD defense closed the game with nine sacks.
SMSU converted just 3 of 19 on third-down and closed 0 for 4 on fourth-down.
Jacob Honstetterrushed for a team-high 14 yards on 11 carries and also caught two passes for 28 yards. Tryg Autencaught a team-high three passes for 27 yards.
Avery Johnsonhad a pair of sacks in the first half for the Mustangs, while Josiah Hedenstenrecorded a team-high eight tackles with one sack.
UMD scored 20 points in the opening quarter and then added 28 in the second quarter. The Bulldogs finished the victory with a pick-six and also had touchdowns of 66, 64, 53, 61 and 44 yards.
UMD finished the game recording 484 yards of offense with 255 on the ground. Quarterback Kyle Walljasper completed 6 of 7 pass attempts for 158 yards and three touchdowns in limited action. Ben Vallafskey rushed for a game-high 124 yards, including a 61-yard touchdown.
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Minnesota
Hawley targets Minnesota fraud, CCP-linked money at Senate hearing: ‘Taxpayers robbed blind’
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A Tuesday Senate hearing is set to expose billions in fraud in Minnesota as well as foreign backing for anti-ICE agitators across the country, Sen. Josh Hawley’s office told Fox News Digital.
The hearing before the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster Management, which Hawley chairs, will feature testimony from a Minnesota state senator and representatives of third-party watchdog groups. Systemic fraud backed by transnational groups has stolen billions from child nutrition, FEMA assistance, housing, Medicaid and substance abuse services, the testimony is expected to say.
“American taxpayers are getting robbed blind—billions stolen in Minnesota, and hundreds of billions siphoned out of the country by transnational criminals every year—all while foreign actors coordinate chaos on our streets,” Hawley told Fox News in a statement.
“Enough is enough. It’s time to root out the dark money and shut down the foreign influence,” he added.
CONGRESS OPENS ‘INDUSTRIAL-SCALE FRAUD’ PROBE IN MINNESOTA, WARNS WALZ DEMANDS ARE ‘JUST THE BEGINNING’
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. will chair Tuesday’s hearing investigating federal assistance fraud in Minnesota. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Minnesota State Sen. Mark Koran’s testimony will highlight the role Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison played in allowing fraud to fester and spread across the state in what he calls the “largest expansion and fastest acceleration of fraud this country has ever seen.”
Witnesses are expected to say that senior officials were not only aware of the fraud but have also taken steps to hide it from public scrutiny by backdating audit records and cracking down on whistleblowers.
A Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) whistleblower told Fox News that she was the victim of a “smear campaign” after raising red flags about fraud in the state since 2019.
MINNESOTA DHS WHISTLEBLOWER DETAILS ‘SMEAR CAMPAIGN’ AFTER REPORTING FRAUD CONCERNS TO STATE
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz canceled his plans to run for re-election amid Minnesota’s fraud scandal. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Federal prosecutors estimate that up to $9 billion was stolen through a network of fraudulent fronts posing as daycare centers, food programs and health clinics. The majority of those charged, so far, in the ongoing investigation are part of Minnesota’s Somali population.
In addition to Koran, lawmakers will hear testimony from Seamus Bruner, the vice president of the Government Accountability Institute; Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, the acting vice president of Policy & Government Affairs for the Project on Government Oversight, and Haywood Talcove, the CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Government.
Talcove’s testimony will focus on transnational groups that he says are exploiting federal assistance programs and using stolen funds support “organized crime, drug trafficking, human exploitation, and, in some cases, terrorist-affiliated or hostile foreign actors.”
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Bruner’s testimony will also focus on foreign influence, linking the funding streams to foreign actors, including individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Minnesota
Minneapolis man pleads guilty to murder in deadly Elliot Park shooting
A 20-year-old Minneapolis man on Monday pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a man in the Elliot Park neighborhood last summer.
Deshon Gregory pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder and three counts of second-degree assault, according to court documents. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 17.
Charges say Gregory arrived outside a house on the 1500 block of 11th Avenue South after texting a woman who lived there, “Come out.” The woman told police Gregory had arrived with another woman and wanted to fight.
Investigators learned Gregory had allegedly been demanding $40 from the woman, with whom he had a previous relationship.
The woman and her two sisters went outside and saw Gregory outside with another woman. At one point, charges say Gregory warned one of the women he was going to shoot her. He then took out a gun and “started shooting at everyone,” according to the complaint. That’s when 30-year-old Lafayette Collaso, who had been on the front porch of the home, was fatally shot.
Charges say surveillance video cameras in the area captured the shooting. Officers also found 11 discharged 9 mm cartridge casings nearby.
At the time of the shooting, Gregory was under court supervision and had multiple pending charges, including two domestic assault cases and one fourth-degree assault case.
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