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Jenny Teeson, center in white, of Andover, Minn., looks on as Gov. Tim Walz signs a bill at the Capitol in St. Paul, on May 2, 2019, repealing a Minnesota law that prevented prosecutors from filing sexual assault charges against people accused of raping their spouse. Teeson, testified before legislative committees earlier this year about how her now ex-husband drugged her and made a video of him having sex with her while she was unconscious. Prosecutors dropped rape charges because of the old law, and he served just 30 days in jail for invasion of privacy.

Midwestern states seek to close loopholes in marital rape laws

August 22, 2019 at 11:02 a.m.

Witches were still being burned at the stake when Sir Matthew Hale came up with his legal theory that rape could not happen within marriage. The 17th century English jurist...

Wisconsin man pleads guilty to kidnapping Jayme Closs and killing her parents

August 22, 2019 at 10:49 a.m.

A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty Wednesday to kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents, in a move that spares the girl held captive in a remote cabin for three...

Younger pigs raised by David Rodibaugh gather in a freshly cleaned pen in Rensselaer, IN. Rodibaugh and his brothers' farm will be hard hit by the recent Chinese tariffs as their primary income comes from pigs and soybeans.

Trump faceoff with China exposes GOP weakness in rural U.S.

May 13, 2019 at 5:05 a.m.

SPOKANE, Wash. — Gary Bailey is certain China is trying to rattle Donald Trump voters with its threat to slap tariffs on soybeans and other agriculture staples grown in rural...

A Minneapolis Jimmy John's franchisee won a court ruling on July 3, 2017, when the court said the company was within its rights to fire six union workers critical of its sick-leave policy. Above, a Jimmy John's restaurant in Chicago.

Appeals court backs Jimmy John’s franchisee in labor dispute

June 3, 2018 at 10:46 a.m.

A company that owns 10 Jimmy John's sandwich shops in the Twin Cities was within its rights to fire six union workers who circulated posters critical of the company's sick-leave...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Still no will, but work to settle Prince estate forges ahead

June 12, 2018 at 11:40 a.m.

Work to settle Prince's estate is moving forward, and a closed hearing is expected to be held this week to resolve an undisclosed dispute between the likely heirs and the...

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