Judge commits St. Cloud man accused of fatally stabbing mother
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A judge has ordered a St. Cloud man accused of fatally stabbing his mother indefinitely committed to a state mental-health facility. The Stearns County judge signed the order Tuesday...
View ArticleCharges dismissed in online child sex sting in St. Paul
Charges have been dismissed against a Minneapolis man accused in Ramsey County District Court of using the internet to solicit a child for sex in St. Paul. Sheng Zhong, 33, was accused in September...
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Attorneys for Wetterling person of interest question police in pretrial hearing
At a pretrial hearing Wednesday in the child pornography case against Danny Heinrich, defense attorneys peppered law enforcement officials with questions about what they knew and when. The questions...
View ArticleWisconsin father shot and killed his 2 children, then himself, police say
A Wisconsin man and two children are dead in what Wisconsin Rapids police say is an apparent double murder-suicide. Lt. Brian Krzykowski said the father of the children shot and killed them and then...
View ArticleIn Milwaukee, 2-year-old finds gun in back seat, shoots and kills mom
A 26-year-old Milwaukee woman was accidentally shot to death Tuesday by her 2-year-old child, who found a loaded gun in the back seat of the car while the woman was driving on Highway 175, the...
View Article972 ticketed for texting while driving in 7-day Minnesota crackdown
It wasn’t hard for police, deputies and troopers to find distracted drivers to ticket during a recent weeklong crackdown in Minnesota, but it was hard in some cases to get the drivers’ attention. One...
View ArticleNo DNA exonerations in review of 14K Minnesota convictions
Officials say a review of 14,000 criminal cases in Minnesota in the 1980s and ’90s found DNA technology could not exonerate any convicted felons. Authorities determined that 33 cases could...
View ArticleMinnesota man admits lying about Islamic State contact
A Minnesota man charged with threatening to “shoot up” a drugstore pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to the FBI about when he last contacted the Islamic State group in a separate case. Abdul Raheem...
View ArticleSouth St. Paul mother accused of accidentally smothering infant
A 31-year-old South St. Paul mother has been charged with manslaughter after her infant daughter died of asphyxia last year while the two slept together. A blood test found controlled substances in...
View ArticleWaseca teen accused in school bomb plot is allowed to return home
WASECA, Minn. — John LaDue, the Waseca teen charged with plotting to bomb his high school in 2014, was ordered Wednesday to return to his home in a week to live with his parents. LaDue, 19, was ordered...
View ArticleTonight’s Safe Summer Nights in St. Paul canceled due to rain
The St. Paul police department is canceling tonight’s Safe Summer Nights cookout because of rain. The event was planned earlier in the season than usual after nine people were shot in St. Paul, two...
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Vandals torch Little Free Library in Cottage Grove
A Girl Scout named Skylar installs a Little Free Library in the yard of Cottage Grove City Council member Jen Peterson in September. Someone set fire to the library, destroying it, overnight Tuesday....
View ArticleReal estate agent accused of stealing pills from Stillwater home pleads guilty
A former Coldwell Banker Burnet real estate agent caught on camera appearing to steal prescription painkillers from a Stillwater home has pleaded guilty to felony drug possession. Lawrence Yearsley...
View ArticleWisconsin inmate locks up deputy, wields weapon from Scrabble part
Authorities say an inmate at a Wisconsin jail locked a deputy in a cell and made threats with a knife-like weapon he apparently had whittled from a Scrabble game letter tray, authorities say. A Dane...
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St. Paul man gets 20 years for slashing pregnant girlfriend’s throat
A St. Paul man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to murder his pregnant girlfriend by slashing her throat last July. Steven Michael Gutierrez (Photo courtesy Ramsey County sheriff’s...
View ArticleStillwater teens investigated after school shooting threats on Twitter
Two Stillwater Junior High School students are being investigated after they allegedly threatened on Twitter to take a gun to school. Stillwater police learned about the shooting threat Thursday when a...
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Compromise on lightening drug sentencing laws reached at Capitol
After weeks of closed-door wrangling between law enforcement, defense attorneys and lawmakers, a compromise has been reached on an effort at the Capitol to lighten criminal penalties for drug offenders...
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From undercover St. Paul cop to assistant chief, and now retiring
Bill Martinez began his career at the St. Paul police department with a top-secret assignment. And over nearly three decades, he ascended to the highest ranks. When Martinez started, he worked...
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Accomplice in burglary-related killing of St. Paul mom is sentenced
The first of four accomplices in a burglary last fall that left a young St. Paul mother dead was sentenced Thursday to nearly six years in prison. Isiah Lee Harper, 26, of Brooklyn Park assisted in...
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Charges: Wisconsin puppy mill operator fed dogs rotting carcasses
Dogs at a suspected western Wisconsin puppy mill were feasting on rotting carcasses as their primary food source, according to allegations spelled out in a criminal complaint this week. Pierce County...
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