A Duluth jury found Dakota Daniel Thorstenson, 29, guilty of Kidnapping, Criminal Sexual Conduct in the First-Degree, and Third-Degree Assault today for the August 11, 2022, kidnapping, assault, and sexual assault of an adult woman, St. Louis County Attorney Kim Maki said.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant St. Louis County Attorney Michael Hagley. Sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.
If tourism funding is now driven by measurable return, then measurement should not stop at the application stage. Duluth should see which organizations applied, which received funding, how proposals scored against criteria, what outcomes were promised and what results were delivered one year later.
For now, the political formula in Minnesota’s 8th District remains remarkably consistent. Duluth votes. The Iron Range votes. Then the rest of northern Minnesota votes. And the rest of northern Minnesota is usually enough.
If Kirill Kaprizov ever gets a true sniper riding shotgun -- Brock Boeser? -- the rest of the Western Conference might suddenly discover something Minnesota fans have suspected for a while now. The Wild are closer than they look.
Duluth and St. Louis County are not asking for luxury investments. They are asking for help maintaining systems — water treatment plants, shoreline protection, waste management infrastructure — whose costs exceed what local taxpayers alone can reasonably sustain.
