September 17, 2005 - MPR’s Toni Randolph reports that while the jury's guilty verdict ends the legal aspect of the Chai Vang murder case, the emotional toll is still lingering -- for his family and the Hmong community.
September 17, 2005 - A St. Paul man has been found guilty in the shooting deaths of six Wisconsin deer hunters. Thirty-six-year-old Chai Vang was also found guilty in the attempted murder of two other hunters in a confrontation over a deer stand last fall. The week-long trial ended yesterday. The jury rendered a verdict after three-and-a-half hours of deliberations. The trial exposed the long-running racial tensions between white and Hmong hunters. And some people feared the entire Hmong community would be tried along with Vang. Lee Pao Xiong is the Director of the Center for Hmong Studies at Concordia University in St. Paul said that should not have been the case.
September 17, 2005 - Chai Vang was found guilty yesterday of killing six deer hunters in Wisconsin last fall. A Sawyer County jury also found him guilty of wounding two others in a confrontation over a deer stand. The verdict came after three-and-a-half hours of deliberation during a week-long trial. Ilene Her is with the Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans. She says she wasn't surprised by the verdict.
September 18, 2005 - Publicity over Chai Vang's trial isn't deterring some Hmong immigrants from their hunting plans this season. Vang was found guilty for killing 6 members of a hunting party in a northern Wisconsin woods last November.
September 19, 2005 - Publicity over Chai Vang's trial isn't deterring some Hmong immigrants from their hunting plans this season. Vang was found guilty for killing 6 members of a hunting party in a northern Wisconsin woods last November.
September 19, 2005 - Publicity over Chai Vang's trial isn't deterring some Hmong immigrants from their hunting plans this season. Vang was found guilty Friday of killing 6 members of a hunting party in northern Wisconsin last November. Vang claimed the hunters he shot at insulted him with racial slurs. His trial has brought tensions between white and Hmong hunters into the public eye. But some members of the Twin Cities Hmong community say they're not worried that racial tensions will cast a pall over the hunting season. Lee Pao Xiong is the director of the center for Hmong Studies at Concordia University in St. Paul.
September 19, 2005 - Some members of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities say they don't expect racial tensions to escalate during this year's hunting season... despite publicity around the murder trial of Chai Vang. Vang was found guilty last week of killing six hunters in the woods of Northwest Wisconsin last November.
September 22, 2005 - MPR’s Sam Choo reports on storm that rocked areas of the Twin Cities, including Andover, which had severe property damage. Choo interviews residents about what happened in the storm. On the night of September 21, 2005, a series of supercells produced four tornadoes, widespread wind damage (gusts of 75+ miles per hour), large hail (up to three inches), and flash-flooding in east central Minnesota. Three damage was present in tree damage in Maple Grove, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, and north Minneapolis, with one fatality from a fallen tree branch. In the worst hit areas there were downbursts…such as in Andover, where wind gusts reached 100 miles per hour.
September 23, 2005 - MPR’s Karl Gehrke reports on Seattle composer Stehen Newby’s Rondo Oratorio. It is a multi-movement work for large chorus, chamber orchestra, rhythm section, soloists and narrators that captures the spirit of the people who lived in St. Paul's long-gone Rondo neighborhood.
September 23, 2005 - A man's journey into the world of New Orlean's music is the subject of a fund-raising performance in St. Paul this weekend for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. "Glorious Noise" was a Minnesota Fringe Festival Hit.