Minnesota mayor target of racist threats in trash dispute

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The black mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, has received racist threats amid a long-simmering dispute over how the city should collect its trash.
Police in Minnesota’s capital are investigating threatening and racist messages to Mayor Melvin Carter in the run-up to a citywide vote on organized trash collection.
A St. Paul police spokesman says an anonymous caller using racial slurs left a voicemail at Carter’s office on Monday. The caller warned that if taxes