They located between 500 and 1,000 chickens, 40 game cocks, seven dead beers and paraphernalia and other property. Several of the roosters were in poor physical condition with several cuts.

Streff added that this is one of the largest and most sophisticated breeding, training and distribution facilities he has seen since starting with the Animal Humane Society in 1987. This is a Hmong owned location.”

Thanks KSTP.

St. Paul police say the victim had been looking for a car for a relative when he brought $2,200 to a meeting on Thursday night.

The suspect pulled a gun on the man around the corner while his wife and 1-year-old child waited in their vehicle. The robber then made them drive about two miles before forcing the family out of the car. He gave the victim one of the $100 bills, telling him to take the bus home.

Yia “The Bull” Mua put the bar up there for Hmong people. He is a representation of the Hmong can and should be doing. Check out Hmoodles interview with him.

“I started the tête-à-tête with Yia “The Bull” Mua to only discover, in my dismay, the ominous condition that has overwhelmed him for the last several months.  It wasn’t until a few months later—something that I most feared—hearing of his death on the Fresno Hmong Radio stations and confirming my doubts on a YouTube video from his widow and nephew.”

Hmoodles exclusive interview with him before he passed.

Meckie Cha, 22-year old, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly sexually assaulting an underage girl over a three-year period. he is facing eight counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14, two counts of sexual intercourse with a minor under 16, two counts of oral copulation with a person under 16 and one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a victim more than three years younger

A Democratic legislator from St. Paul has been ordered to pay the state more than $4,700 in penalties over irregularities in his 2006 and 2008 campaign finances.

Fourth-term Rep. Cy Thao was found to have paid friends and relatives excessive amounts for services out of his campaign funds. Wednesday’s ruling from the campaign finance board requires him to repay more than $1,700 in public subsidies and hit him with a $3,000 civil penalty.

The complaint questioned Thao’s deals for lawn signs, office space and campaign literature. Board documents say some rental money went to a corporation Thao and his wife own.

Thao says he’s contemplating appeal options. He says he doesn’t agree with the contention that he overpaid people for work they performed.

Source: WCCO

Saint Paul sufferes it’s first fire death in more then a year. A Hmong man, Kaylee Yang, was a victim to a fire at an apartment in Saint Paul monday night.