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Man who shot up White Bear Lake woman with meth and heroin guilty of aiding...
Nobody got to see Victor Wayne Lynch’s reaction Thursday when a jury found him guilty of aiding and abetting murder in a White Bear Lake woman’s fatal drug overdose last fall. That’s because Lynch was...
View ArticleFormer St. Thomas Academy teacher charged with buying alcohol for students,...
A former St. Thomas Academy teacher has been charged on four counts after admitting in May that she smoked marijuana with students and bought them alcohol. Kristin Marie Vanyo, 45, was charged...
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Authorities seize 69 pounds of khat bound for Minnesota
Federal customs officials intercepted four packages bound for Minnesota from Germany consisting of 69 pounds of khat. A bundle of the plant known as khat, used by some as a stimulant. The drug is...
View ArticleNo charges against Crystal police officers in non-fatal park shooting
Four Crystal police officers will not be charged in the shooting of a teenager carrying an Airsoft gun in May, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Thursday. Kahleel Thompson was shot...
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Minnesota ex-con’s arrest in slaying of Utah college student is detailed
SALT LAKE CITY — A Minnesota ex-con accused of killing a University of Utah student from China casually strolled multiple floors of a downtown Salt Lake City library about 15 hours after the fatal...
View ArticlePolice investigate suspected murder-suicide in Minneapolis
Minneapolis police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide in city’s Phillips neighborhood, officials say. Officers were dispatched about 3 p.m. to an apartment in the 2700 block of Cedar Avenue...
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Authorities seek public’s help in finding 15-year-old runaway last seen Oct. 28
Authorities are seeking the public’s help in locating a 15-year-old Minneapolis girl who was last seen Oct. 28. Alissa “Alli” Denne is described as 5-foot-4 and 125 pounds, with brown hair and brown...
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Charges: He was raping her until she told him to ask God’s forgiveness; then...
He had raped her and choked her and was sexually assaulting her again when, through tears, she told him to ask for God’s forgiveness for what he was doing. Suddenly, he got to his knees and began to...
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‘I have been waiting for this for a long time,’ inmate said after assaulting...
Richard Daniel Thomas Joles When two men charged in the slaying of a St. Paul woman were placed in the same holding room in September, one of them beat the other up and said, “I have been waiting for...
View ArticleMendota Heights officer, under investigation for complaint, resigns because...
A Mendota Heights police officer who was the focus of two internal investigations in the past year resigned Friday because of a work-related injury, according to a separation agreement that the city...
View ArticleMacalester College finds more swastikas on campus
Macalester College continues to have issues with swastikas turning up on campus, according to online alerts posted Wednesday and Thursday on the college’s website. One was drawn on a residence hall...
View ArticleHugo man posted ex’s nude photos on Snapchat, charges say
Two months after a 19-year-old from Hugo and his St. Paul girlfriend broke up, he posted a nude picture of her on Snapchat with derogatory comments, according to a criminal complaint filed in Ramsey...
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Slain Little Falls deer hunter’s rifle found; sheriff believes it is murder...
LITTLE FALLS, Minn. — Authorities are a step closer to finding the person who killed a rural Little Falls man in north-central Minnesota nearly a year ago while he was deer hunting on his parents’...
View ArticleArchdiocese releases names of 19 clergy accused of sexual abuse of a minor
The names of 19 men have been added to the growing list of abusers who at some point served or spent time in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. The statement, posted Friday on the...
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Family seeks justice after father of 3 gunned down outside St. Paul bar
After working back-to-back jobs from morning to night, Brandon Christopher Roberts headed out with his friends to unwind. But after he left a St. Paul bar, gunshots rang out and Roberts, 31, was...
View ArticleSt. Paul man charged with eighth DWI since 1986
Caught driving drunk for the eighth time, a St. Paul man faces familiar charges. Lewis Wylie, 50, of St. Paul has been charged with four gross misdemeanor counts related to drunk driving. Records show...
View ArticleFormer Fergus Falls teacher sentenced to five years for child pornography
A former Fergus Falls substitute teacher has been sentenced to five years in a federal prison for distributing child pornography, according to a press release from acting U.S. Attorney Gregory Brooker....
View ArticleAuthorities identify victims of Thursday murder-suicide in Minneapolis
The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office identified the two victims in a suspected Nov. 2 murder-suicide in Minneapolis as Martina Lopez Garcia, 35, and Homero Lopez Salinas, 35. The woman’s death...
View ArticleMultiple people dead in South Texas church shooting, officials say
Multiple people were killed and others were injured during a shooting Sunday inside a church in South Texas, not far from San Antonio, authorities said. The incident occurred at First Baptist Church in...
View ArticleMinneapolis police investigate second murder-suicide in less than a week
Police responding to a 911 call about a person with a gun in Northeast Minneapolis later heard gunshots and found a man and woman dead inside a house. Officers were called about 3:30 p.m. to a...
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