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Reports of ICE shenanigans add to fears in Minnesota

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Reports of ICE shenanigans add to fears in Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For days, Luis Ramirez had an uneasy feeling about the men dressed as laborers he’d seen outside his family’s Mexican restaurant in suburban Minneapolis. They wore high-visibility vests and immaculate white hard hats, he noticed, even when they were parked in their vehicle. His search for the Wisconsin electrician posted on the … Read more

Boise airport hangar collapse case offers settlements to victims’ families

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Boise airport hangar collapse case offers settlements to victims’ families

The families of two construction workers killed in the collapse of an unfinished private airplane hangar at the Boise airport nearly two years ago have settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against two Idaho companies involved in the project. Terms of the settlements are confidential, attorneys for the families and the project’s general contractor separately told the … Read more