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Mom: Two suspected in Alexandria girl kidnapping were ‘best friends,’ roommates
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Two of the three suspects in the kidnapping and assault of a 15-year-old Alexandria girl were best friends and had attended high school in Alexandria together, said the mother of...
View ArticleRecognize this bike thief? St. Paul man is hoping tips will lead to his bike
After a St. Paul man’s garage was burglarized earlier this year, he decided to install a surveillance camera. “I guess it was well warranted,” said Wade McEwen on Thursday, the day after the camera...
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Minnesota drug overdoses increased 9 percent in one year
The number of Minnesotans dying of drug overdoses continues to climb at an alarming rate, and state health officials hope a new database will improve their response to the epidemic. Last year, 637...
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Alexandria girl was raped, hanged, nearly drowned during captivity, charges say
A 15-year-old western Minnesota girl who thought she was helping a friend’s father was instead kidnapped and held captive for 29 days during which she was repeatedly raped, tied up with zip ties and...
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Fridley-based truck driver shot dead at Iowa rest stop; woman arrested
A driver for Copeland Trucking in Fridley was found shot to death inside his semi at a rest stop early Wednesday in Iowa. Authorities say 60-year-old Ernest D. Kummer of Monroe, Iowa, was shot and...
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Orono mom who hanged her son and herself is identified
Authorities have identified a 46-year-old woman who hanged her 5-year-old son and then herself at her home in the Lake Minnetonka community of Orono. The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office on...
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Iowa man charged in friend’s stabbing death in St. Cloud
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Prosecutors have charged an Iowa man with second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of another Iowa man in central Minnesota. Robin Hanson, 22, of Deloit, Iowa, appeared in Stearns...
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Wisconsin grandmother accused of keeping 9-year-old girl in kennel
TOWN OF NORWAY, Wis. — A grandmother and a man are accused of keeping her 9-year-old granddaughter padlocked inside a wire dog kennel in the basement of a house in southeastern Wisconsin. A 9-year-old...
View ArticleSt. Paul police shoot dog while executing search warrant, find pipe bomb
Police executing a search warrant in St. Paul on Thursday fatally shot a dog after officers reported it charged at them. Soon after, police found a pipe bomb in the Frogtown home’s basement and...
View ArticlePolice: Officer arrested nurse after being told to let it go
SALT LAKE CITY — Authorities say a Utah police officer whose rough arrest of a nurse has drawn condemnation put the woman in handcuffs even after investigators told him not to worry about getting a...
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‘Revenge porn’ discovered after flood of Snapchat requests, charges say
When a 22-year-old St. Paul woman started receiving numerous “friend” requests from strangers on Snapchat, she wanted to know why. After a bit of investigating, she found her Snapchat username...
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13-year-old calls 911 on mom driving drunk, St. Paul charges say
A 13-year-old girl called 911 this week to report she got out of her mother’s vehicle and was scared because the woman was driving drunk, according to St. Paul police. Kristin Rae Clouse Officers found...
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Seconds after pleading guilty to attempted murder, he threatened previous...
Timothy Ka Vang (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office) Just seconds after pleading guilty in June to attempted murder, authorities say Timothy Ka Vang threatened a previous victim who was...
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Wayzata police officer fatally struck on U.S. 12; driver arrested
A Wayzata police officer was struck and killed Friday afternoon while clearing debris from the roadway of U.S. 12, authorities said. Officer William Allen Mathews, 47, was responding to a call around...
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Man gets 32 years for stabbing friend’s grandfather to death in Eden Prairie
A Le Sueur, Minn., man who pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing his friend’s grandfather in Eden Prairie last year was sentenced Friday to more than 32 years in prison. Nathan Alan Foth Nathan Foth, 24,...
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Minnesota man used fake social profiles to obtain nude images, officials say;...
An International Falls, Minn., man has been charged with possession of child pornography, identity theft and other crimes after investigators uncovered an identity theft scheme carried out to lure...
View ArticleMinneapolis homicide: Shots reported, then car crashes into wall
A man is dead following an apparent shooting east of Lake Harriet early Saturday morning. According to a news release from the Minneapolis Police Department, several people called 911 around 2:52 a.m....
View ArticleTwo injured, one arrested after Lake Elmo stabbing
Two men were injured in a stabbing Friday night in Lake Elmo. According to a news release from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, officers were called to the 200 block of Cimarron, adjacent to...
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Alexandria girl welcomed home after monthlong captivity
Jasmine Block, second from left, reconnects with friends, keeping her new service dog, Rocky, close by, during a community gathering to welcome Jasmine home. The event was set as a prayer service...
View ArticleSt. Paul police investigating apparent homicide in North End neighborhood
A man is dead after a shooting in St. Paul’s North End neighborhood, police say. Crime scene tape has cordoned off the area around a two-story house at Sycamore and Jackson streets since at least 7:30...
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