Joe Augustine

The former Customs and Border Patrol commissioner says Border Patrol is the "wrong" unit for Minneapolis after an agent fatally shot protester Alex Pretti on Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis.

A potential legal agreement would allow individual counties to honor ICE detainers without judicial warrants and hold inmates for up to 48 additional hours.

Hennepin Healthcare is cutting several programs and 100 workers to close a $50-million budget gap, but is owed medical care debts worth nearly twice that amount.

UCare owes nearly a half billion dollars to the four largest hospital systems in Minnesota and hasn’t made payments in months.

In Minnesota, 80% of Medicaid care is administered by a managed care organization (MCO) like the now-shuttered UCare.

New data obtained by the FOX 9 Investigators shows UCare’s Medicaid payments topped $600 million last year —more than double what it paid out in 2022.

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Convicted Medicaid fraudsters were ordered to repay more than $13.3 million in combined restitution since 2020, according to a review of cases from the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

Larry’s Law essentially bans "no lift" policies by requiring assisted living facilities to implement plans for staff to immediately attend to residents in a medical emergency until emergency personnel arrive.

Governor Walz signed "Larry’s Law" this week, which effectively eliminates ‘no lift’ and ‘no touch’ policies at assisted living facilities in Minnesota by requiring them to immediately attend to resident needs in a medical emergency.