Court: ‘Making a Murderer’ defendant’s confession stands
CHICAGO — A federal appeals court in Chicago narrowly overturned a ruling Friday that could have freed a Wisconsin inmate featured in the “Making a Murderer” series from prison, though one dissenting...
View ArticleSchool bus stop arm violators get jail time in Minnesota county
ADA, Minn. — Some drivers in northwestern Minnesota who ignore school bus stop arms are being thrown in jail. Norman County Attorney James Brue told KFGO Radio that two people have each spent a weekend...
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Minnesota couple said they were robbed of engagement ring in Chicago. Then...
Ryan Reiersgaard and Katie Mager (Courtesy of Chicago Police Department) CHICAGO — A pair of Twin Cities tourists fabricated a story about getting robbed at knifepoint by three men in Chicago’s Loop...
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Owner heads to trial over death of her two horses in 2013
Four years ago, Gloria Fritz watched as her two American Saddlebred horses were pulled out of a half-dug grave. They had been shot and killed. A couple of years later, she filed suit against the farm’s...
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Suspect in killing of pregnant Fargo woman pleads guilty; details remain...
Brooke Crews, who is accused of killing a pregnant neighbor so she and her boyfriend could keep the baby, appears in state district court in Fargo, N.D., on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, with attorney Steven...
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North Hudson man gets new trial date in fatal crash case
A new trial date has been set in the case of a North Hudson man charged in a fatal crash in Minnesota. Drew Tyler Fleming. (Courtesy of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office) Judge Richard Ilka set a...
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After being cut-off from alcohol, St. Paul woman threatens bar bouncers with...
After a St. Paul woman was cut off at a Little Canada bar, she went home and grabbed her pink stun gun, authorities say. Holding the device in one hand and pepper spray in the other, Tiffany Marie...
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St. Cloud man charged in weekend slaying after arrest in N.D.
WAITE PARK, Minn. — Prosecutors have charged a St. Cloud man jailed in North Dakota with murder in a fatal shooting at an apartment in central Minnesota. This undated photo provided by the Burleigh...
View ArticleAlabama foes get in final licks before Tuesday’s big vote as the nation watches
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Facing voters at last after the year’s most bitter U.S. campaign, Alabama Republican Roy Moore cast himself Monday as the victim of a national barrage of unjust allegations of sexual...
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Two men charged in fatal Fridley shooting plead guilty
Two men charged in the May shooting death of a Minneapolis man in Fridley pleaded guilty on Monday. Johnny Earl Edwards, 44, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder, while Bryston Markeis...
View ArticleHibbing truck driver, who blacked out or dozed off, pleads guilty in...
SILVER BAY, Minn. — A Hibbing truck driver accused of criminal vehicular homicide in a crash that killed the Silver Bay mayor’s son two years ago pleaded guilty Monday in Lake County District Court....
View ArticleMaplewood police find a man’s body in Battle Creek Park on Tuesday morning
Maplewood police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a city park on Tuesday morning. Officers were dispatched to Battle Creek Park about 8:30 a.m. after a passerby reported...
View ArticleJury finds civilly committed woman not guilty in fatal stabbing of St. Paul man
A jury found that a St. Paul woman who stabbed her roommate’s boyfriend days after telling police she was God acted in defense of her home. After more than a day and a half of deliberations, members of...
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St. Paul woman nabbed with nearly 200 pounds of pot in North Dakota, charges say
JAMESTOWN, N.D. — A traffic stop described as routine resulted in more than 198 pounds of marijuana being seized this week on Interstate 94 in North Dakota, according to the Stutsman County sheriff’s...
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Cops who nailed little girl’s killer — and witness who almost lost her life...
After a man confessed to Dorothy Noga that he had kidnapped and murdered a 6-year-old girl in St. Paul, he threatened that he was going to cut her throat. Then, the man showed up at her work and...
View ArticleMan in critical condition after Ham Lake shooting that was reported as road...
An Elk River man is in critical condition after being shot in Ham Lake on Wednesday night, officials say. Anoka County sheriff’s deputies responded about 7:20 p.m. to the parking lot of a SuperAmerica...
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Man stole Taser, handcuffs, ammunition from Metro Transit police station,...
A Minnetonka man faces criminal charges after stealing a Taser, handcuffs, ammunition and other law enforcement equipment from a Metro Transit police department in St. Paul, authorities say. Demario...
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Minneapolis police reduced mental health screening in years before Justine...
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis Police Department reduced the psychological tests it gives to new recruits from five to one as it relied in recent years on a psychiatrist with no experience in law...
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Prosecutor: Not enough evidence yet to charge Minneapolis cop in Justine...
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said he doesn’t yet have enough evidence to charge a Minneapolis police officer who killed an unarmed Australian woman this summer, blaming investigators who...
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2 men, teen girl arrested in shooting first reported as Highway 65 road rage
Two men and a teenage girl have been arrested for their involvement in the shooting of a 21-year-old Elk River man in Ham Lake on Wednesday night. Adam Aaron Clippard, left, and Zachary James Hintz...
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