Who is Matthew Erickson? Matthew Erickson is the guy who compares himself to Clint Eastwood characters and writes creepy tweets about cute 17 year olds who can’t vote for him.

Before he was shot and killed by police during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, on Wednesday, Philando Castile told the officer involved that he had a concealed-carry permit and had a firearm in his possession, according to Castile’s girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds.

Philando Castile, 32, died Wednesday night after being shot several times by a police officer in a suburb outside St. Paul, Minn., police confirmed. The immediate aftermath of the shooting was streamed live on Facebook by Castile’s girlfriend Lavish Reynolds.

The Los Angeles Times has the story of Brother Nelson, the Jehovah’s Witness known to the rest of the world as Prince. “I look forward to the time we can welcome him back on the Earth,” one of the artist’s fellow congregants in Minnetonka, Minnesota told the paper.

My main takeaway from the Age of Swatting was that the art of pranking had gone stale. Teenagers too smart for their own good had essentially uncovered a red button that, when pushed could, without a trace, send a SWAT team to the house of any random person or celebrity. How boring!

Casual chain restaurants are given a lot of leeway with their decor. Want to put some college pennants on the wall? Go right ahead. A fake porthole on the bathroom? Sure, why not. A dirty old Squier Stratocaster hanging from the ceiling? That’s America, baby! Lynching photos? Slow your roll, my man.

Oh, brother. In a post titled “Why I’m moving to the place I called “America’s worst place to live,” on the Washington Post WonkBlog, Christopher Ingraham writes about leaving the hellish Beltway area for a quiet, commute-less life in rural Minnesota. Good for him! Kind of.

Minneapolis police have named the three suspects in custody for an alleged shooting at a Black Lives Matter protest Monday night. They are Allen “Lance” Scarsella, 23, of Lakeville; Nathan Gustavsson, 21, of Hermantown; and Daniel Macey, 26, of Pine City.

A day after terror attacks left hundreds of casualties across Paris, a Democratic candidate for the Minnesota House tweeted, “ISIS isn’t necessarily evil. It is made up of people doing what they think is best for their community. Violence is not the answer, though.” He has since ended his campaign.

According to a police report obtained Tuesday by the Associated Press, the woman in charge of caring for Bobbi Kristina Brown at the hospice where she died was impersonating a nurse and faces charges including identity fraud and nursing without a license.

Police say that a 38-year-old woman has admitted to sending a series of anonymous threats to a family in Champlin, Minnesota, CBS Minnesota reports. The first threat came in the form of a note in the mail that read, “The children look delicious. May I have a taste?”

The death of Cecil the Lion, slain by some bumpkin dentist whose life appears to now be hell, very quickly reached the point of hypothetical comparison, and today we keep moving down the line: eating chicken is “morally worse” than killing Cecil the Lion, says Vox’s Dylan Matthews. Now we must talk about why this is stupid.

A grizzly bear at the Minnesota Zoo smashed a glass barrier with a 50-pound, “basketball-sized” rock, repeatedly slamming it against the window until one of the exhibit’s 5 layers of safety glass shattered. Because there has to be more to life than this, right?

Pope Francis accepted the resignations of two U.S. Catholic bishops today in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal in St. Paul, Minnesota. Archbishop John C. Nienstedt and Auxillary Bishop Lee A. Piché have quit their posts after Minnesota prosecutors charged the archdiocese with the “mishandling of repeated complaints of sexual misconduct against a priest,” per The New York Times.

New Glarus Brewing’s Spotted Cow beer is a Wisconsin institution, an easy-drinking cream ale that several reviewers say would be their regular summer beer ... if they could get it outside the state. The brewer is only licensed to distribute its limited supply of beer within Wisconsin, and the beer cops in neighboring Minnesota take that rule very seriously.

A Minneapolis police officer is in stable condition after being shot early Saturday morning, the Associated Press reports. Police believe the officer was targeted because he was a cop.

In bizarre, terrifying video released by the Maplewood, Min. Police Department Wednesday night, 68-year-old Charles Emmett Logan can be seen attacking St. John's Hospital staff with a metal pole as they frantically try to flee. After injuring four nurses, Logan reportedly ran out into the street, was tased by police, and died soon after.

When two St. Paul teens heard the door to their house open Saturday night, they were expecting their parents. Instead, they got a drunken zombie Santa Claus who had apparently lost his way and broken into the residence. As one does.

Bobby Tufts, America's most beloved five-year-old mayor, has been ousted. After serving two terms as mayor of the (very) small town Dorset, Minnesota, he was defeated by 16-year-old Eric Mueller. Bobby's mom announced the news in a Facebook post.

Police arrested Bemidji, Minnesota man Chad Pickering yesterday for allegedly shooting his 17-year-old neighbor three times after she told him to stop riding his lawnmower into her yard.