Hennepin County listed for noncompliance with ICE requests
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office is on a federal list of law enforcement agencies that haven’t routinely cooperated with holding detainees for immigration officials.Related Articles Feds both...
View ArticleSt. Paul school staffer injured breaking up cafeteria fight, police say
A staff member at a St. Paul high school needed medical attention after she was injured while students were fighting, police said Tuesday. A school resource officer saw staff members trying to break up...
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South St. Paul man follows woman off light rail, threatens rape, charges say
A man followed a young woman off the light rail in St. Paul and threatened to rape her, according to criminal charges. Andrew Wardell King, 55, was charged Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court with...
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Mom of man killed by St. Paul police pleads with mayor to see videos in case
The mother of the man fatally shot by St. Paul police officers last week asked Mayor Chris Coleman on Tuesday to arrange for her to privately view videos of the incident. Cordale Handy (Courtesy photo)...
View ArticleSheriff who investigated Jacob Wetterling abduction to retire
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A central Minnesota sheriff who worked to solve the decades-old kidnapping of Jacob Wetterling is hanging up his badge. Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner announced his retirement...
View ArticleJewish officials ask lawmakers for security funding in wake of threats
Reacting to a slew of reported bomb threats against synagogues and Jewish institutions nationwide, members of the several Minnesota Jewish organizations asked legislators to approve funding for...
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St. Paul women accused of assaulting rider at Green Line station
Two young St. Paul women are accused of beating up a woman they attempted to rob at the Snelling Avenue light-rail station in St. Paul this weekend. Trayonna Ronita Johnson, 18, and Antonia Brittany...
View ArticleAppleton prison proponents try to take ‘private’ out of the debate
Minnesota state Rep. Tim Miller lamented that he’d done everything he could to pitch the private prison idea in Minnesota. And he did it again Tuesday, with a costly caveat. During a hearing at the...
View ArticleMuslim group calls for charges after hijab-wearing Moorhead woman harassed in...
MOORHEAD, Minn. – The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is asking Moorhead authorities to file criminal charges against a man accused of harassing a pregnant Muslim woman...
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Man gets jail time for following woman into Little Canada apartment, fondling...
A man who followed a 67-year-old woman into her Little Canada apartment and fondled her has received a stayed prison sentence for the crime. Ramsey County District Judge Sara Grewing sentenced Nicholas...
View ArticleMan who took own truck from Moorhead impound lot faces drug charges
MOORHEAD, Minn. – A man accused by Dilworth police of taking a truck out of an impound lot in Moorhead has been been charged in Clay County District Court with possessing illegal drugs in connection...
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Protesters disrupt council meeting; mayor says he ‘cannot interfere’ with...
St. Paul’s mayor responded Wednesday to the mother of a man fatally shot by St. Paul officers last week, saying he would support any decision by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to share...
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Burglars clean out tools of high school auto shop — and community responds
When Matt Lijewski pulled up to the Central High School Service Station in St. Paul on Sunday morning and saw the garage door was open, it crossed his mind that another staff member could be test...
View ArticleBoy, 14, arrested at St. Paul high school after alleged threat overheard,...
A 14-year-old was arrested at a St. Paul high school Wednesday after he “was overheard talking about a threat to” the school, according to police and the school. “It was brought to our attention that a...
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Police officer, 3 others dead in northern Wisconsin after domestic dispute...
WESTON, Wis. — A police officer and three other people were shot and killed when a domestic dispute at a bank escalated into shootings at three locations in northern Wisconsin on Wednesday,...
View ArticleMinnesota Senate controller ousted after charged with theft in a previous job
The Minnesota Senate terminated the employment of its controller Wednesday morning, a day after she was charged with “theft by swindle” for actions in a previous job. “These charges were not related to...
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St. Paul men charged with murder after assault on Green Line platform
Two men have been charged with murder after a September assault at a St. Paul light-rail station caused a 68-year-old man to die of a blood clot, charges say. Shawn Delaine Bellazan Jr., 19, and Cavis...
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St. Paul woman who killed baby, staged crash, gets prison for manslaughter
Michael Kyaw Htoo was 22 inches long and weighed 10 pounds and 3 ounces on the day he died. He was just 5 weeks old. At that age, experts say babies are first beginning to smile, Assistant Ramsey...
View ArticleCharges: 2 men were drunk in northern Minnesota crash that killed friend
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. — Two northern Minnesota men allegedly spent a night partying — one of them admitting to drinking more than a dozen beers and having several shots — before they were involved in an...
View ArticleIsrael police arrest suspect in threats on US Jewish targets
JERUSALEM — Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers and other institutions in the...
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