State Sen. Justin Eichorn submitted his letter of resignation on Thursday, GOP Leader Mark Johnson said in a statement, following a federal criminal charge accusing him of soliciting sex from someone ...

Republican and Democratic leaders say Eichorn’s resignation was necessary to avoid an expulsion vote that would have been the ...

A Republican push to oust a Democratic-Farmer-Labor state ... the Senate Subcommittee on Ethics deadlocked 2-2 on partisan lines on two new complaints against Sen. Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury ...

The arrest of Justin Eichorn, a Republican senator, leaves both parties in the closely divided State Senate with ... who is facing felony charges: Nicole Mitchell, a Democrat, is preparing to ...

They were the first public remarks from Mitchell in ethics committee proceedings, on the Senate floor, or in hearings in her criminal case since her arrest last April. RELATED: State Sen.

A Republican Minnesota state senator who was caught in a sting operation resigned under fire Thursday after he was charged ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (GRAY) – Minnesota State Senator Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury) spoke to the Senate Ethics Committee for the first time without legal counsel present Thursday morning ...

A Republican state senator ... in the Senate, where Democrats have a one-seat majority. Eichorn is now the second Minnesota senator in office who is facing felony charges: Nicole Mitchell, a ...

Nicole Mitchell, who faces two felony ... She argued her employment in the Senate does not amount to a financial stake, according to state statute. "Trying to relate an actual procedural vote ...

Nicole Mitchell takes a seat during ... Ethics complaints failed Thursday to advance against a state senator facing criminal charges after a Minnesota Senate ethics panel deadlocked on how to ...

A Republican Minnesota state senator who ... prepared to vote him out. AP Senate Democrats have come under GOP fire for protecting Democratic Sen. Nicole Mitchell, of Woodbury, who was arrested ...