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St. Paul mayor called herself ‘MILF’ and touched police chief’s thigh, sexual harassment suit claims

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The St. Paul, Minnesota, police chief has sued the city’s first female mayor, claiming that she sexually harassed him and “embarked on a campaign” of retaliation after he reported the alleged abuse.

Chief Axel Henry, who has led the St. Paul Police Department since 2022, said Mayor Kaohly Her grabbed “his upper thigh beneath a conference-room table — not once, but twice — during a (St. Paul Police Department) budget meeting.”

Henry, in the lawsuit filed on Wednesday, said Her made sexual innuendos about the size of his penis and described herself to him as a “MILF,” which is an acronym for “mother I’d like to f---.”

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USThe Guardian

California sheriff ordered to return ballots he confiscated in voter ‘fraud’ inquiry

State supreme court rules Chad Bianco’s conduct unlawful and says he ‘must refrain from further handling’ of ballots A Republican California sheriff must return more than a half-million ballots he seized for an investigation into unfounded voting improprieties in a special election last year, the state supreme court ruled Thursday. Riverside county sheriff Chad Bianco in February seized approximately 650,000 ballots from a November 2025 special election on statewide congressional redistricting favorable to Democrats and pushed by Governor Gavin Newsom.…

USABC News

2 stabbed while sleeping in home; 1 killed, another in critical condition

A pediatric critical care doctor was stabbed to death and a woman was stabbed and critically injured by a suspect who allegedly attacked them while they were asleep, authorities in Pennsylvania said. Officers responded around 12:30 a.m. Thursday to a home in Edgewood, just outside of Pittsburgh, where they found Dr. Idris Evans and a woman both suffering from multiple stab wounds, according to the Allegheny County Police Department. Evans, 46, was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead, while the woman was hospitalized in critical condition, police said.

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