Large Minneapolis homeless encampment set to close due to ‘blight,’ ‘hindrance of development’

A large homeless camp in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is scheduled to close on Thursday after a U.S. judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order barring the city from shutting it down. U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrad on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit by two residents seeking to block the city's plan to remove a homeless encampment […]