Many shots fired near ‘chaotic’ party bus, no arrests yet in young rapper’s...
Inver Grove Heights police said Monday that no arrests have been made in the shooting death of Billy Robles, a 19-year-old aspiring rapper from St. Paul killed early Saturday during a fight between two...
View ArticleHastings man sentenced in girl’s hit-and-run death near Lake Mille Lacs
A Hastings man was sentenced Friday to 180 days in jail in the case of a 2016 hit-and- run that caused the death of a 10-year-old girl. Steven Lee Meier Steven Lee Meier, 45, earlier pleaded guilty in...
View ArticleArrest made in fatal Inver Grove Heights party bus shooting; second suspect...
A 16-year-old Hopkins boy has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree homicide in connection with the fatal shooting of Billy Ray Robles, a 19-year-old St. Paul man shot Saturday in Inver Grove...
View ArticleTeens arrested in theft, assault at Verizon Wireless store in Inver Grove...
The northbound lanes of U.S. 52 in West St. Paul are blocked Monday, March 26, 2018, while police arrest at gunpoint five teenage boys suspected of using force to rob a Verizon Wireless store in Inver...
View ArticleArmed robbery suspect arrested in presence of likely next victim, St. Paul...
His screen name was Libking Shooter Man and police say he offered to sell an iPhone on Facebook Marketplace. But after meeting a 28-year-old in St. Paul, he told him, “This is a stickup,” robbing him...
View ArticleFire at Forest Lake gun shop caused total loss, required 75 firefighters to...
Ben Oliver’s phone call to his wife Monday night was brief: “Honey, there’s a fire at the range, I’ll be home late. I’ve got to go. The fire truck is here.” Several hours and about 350,000 gallons of...
View Article6 injured in knife fight at Rochester party
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Police say five people were stabbed and a sixth person was critically beaten after a knife fight erupted at a party in Rochester. Officers were called to an apartment building about...
View ArticleWoman assaulted with hammer testifies Diamond Reynolds attacked her
Jacinda Dunlap recalled for a jury two women jumping out of their car to attack her after she parked outside her St. Paul home late last winter. They started punching her and pulling her hair, said...
View ArticleSecond man sentenced for role in ‘life-shattering’ rape on St. Paul’s Harriet...
Devontre Vann told a court Wednesday that every day he thinks about the pain he caused two young women when he and three acquaintances under the influence of tequila and Xanax took turns raping them on...
View ArticleTwo teens charged in connection with party bus slaying in Inver Grove Heights
As a party bus drove around for several hours late Friday, an argument between two groups of teens festered. When the bus pulled over in Inver Grove Heights to drop off passengers early Saturday, a...
View ArticleFormer Minneapolis FBI agent accused of leaking files to media
A former Minneapolis FBI agent who allegedly shared secret documents with a national media organization has been charged months after Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to crack down on government...
View ArticleMurder charges, arrest warrant filed in Little Earth slaying in Minneapolis
Prosecutors have charged an 18-year-old man with murder in a fatal shooting near the Little Earth public housing complex in South Minneapolis. Juan Antonio Vasquez Jr. of Minneapolis is charged with...
View ArticleSt. Paul woman targeted elderly shoppers in theft spree, charges say
A 95-year-old was grocery shopping at a Cub Foods in White Bear Township last June when a woman she didn’t know walked up to her cart and struck up a conversation. Zetta Listice Mallett Soon after, the...
View ArticleFormer St. Thomas Academy teacher pleads guilty to buying alcohol for students
A former teacher at St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights has pleaded guilty to buying alcohol for students. Kristin Marie Vanyo, 45, entered the plea Wednesday in Dakota County District Court. In...
View ArticleLakeville mom left children at home, went out for wings, got black-out drunk,...
A Lakeville woman is accused of leaving her two young children home alone for four hours while she ate chicken wings and got black-out drunk at a Green Mill Restaurant and Bar. Christine Teresa Jewle...
View ArticleShooting on Greater East Side sends man to hospital
A man shot in the stomach on the Greater East Side was transported to Regions Hospital in critical condition Wednesday. He has since stabilized. No arrests have been made, and the victim’s name has not...
View ArticleSuspect who eluded police twice arrested in North St. Paul
Delaquay Levius Williams led officers on an 80 mph chase last month, according to authorities, evading arrest. Days later, a SWAT team waited outside a Dayton Bluff residence, calling for Williams to...
View ArticleJudge orders investigative records in Wetterling case returned to FBI
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A judge has ordered Stearns County to return thousands of pages of FBI documents in the Jacob Wetterling investigation to the federal agency. County officials had planned to release...
View ArticleWisconsin charges: Woman stabbed man 16 times, carved ‘boy’ on her arm
MENOMONIE, Wis. — Dunn County’s district attorney says a woman accused of killing a man stabbed him 16 times and then carved the word “boy” on her arm. Twenty-year-old Ezra McCandless, of Stanley, is...
View ArticleMinneapolis man charged with murder in woman’s fatal OD in Carver County
Prosecutors have charged a Minneapolis man with murder in the overdose death of a 19-year-old woman in Carver County. Twenty-nine-year-old Deon Lee Hillard is charged with third-degree murder in the...
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