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UW-Madison police refer more charges against Edina student
MADISON, Wis. — Police have referred more charges to prosecutors against a University of Wisconsin-Madison student already accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women. Alec Cook...
View ArticleTeen pleads guilty to setting chicken on fire in western Wisconsin
HUDSON, Wis. — A second teenager has pleaded guilty to setting a live chicken on fire last year at a farm in St. Croix County, Wis. WLUK-TV reports that 17-year-old Hayden Lammers of Suamico, Wis.,...
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Judge deciding where Jeronimo Yanez will be tried in Philando Castile’s death
A judge could rule by Friday evening whether the trial of a St. Anthony police officer charged in the death of Philando Castile will stay in Ramsey County or move elsewhere. After taking a defense...
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St. Paul man charged with rape, accused of forcing woman into car at gunpoint
A woman was standing at a bus stop in the 1500 block of West University Avenue in the fall of 2011 when a man pressed a handgun into her back and forced her into a car, charges say. Then he drove her...
View ArticleDakota County crackdown on distracted drivers starts Wednesday
Dakota County law enforcement on Wednesday will kick off a monthlong effort to stop distracted driving. In addition to extra enforcement targeting distracted drivers, police officers and sheriff’s...
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SUV fatally hits Duluth woman, 62, throwing her against electrical box
DULUTH, Minn. — A 62-year-old pedestrian was killed when she was struck by an SUV and thrown against an electrical box along London Road in Duluth on Tuesday, according to police and a witness at the...
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Avian sanctuary trying to rebuild after driver strikes its St. Paul building;...
A man drove into a St. Paul building that houses a parrot sanctuary, filling the interior with natural gas, damaging a wall and leaving parrots’ cages smashed, according to police and the organization....
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St. Paul officer who kicked man should get job back, arbitrator rules
A St. Paul police officer who kicked a man when he was being bitten by a police dog, leading to a $2 million legal settlement, should get his job back, a state arbitrator ruled this week. Officer Brett...
View ArticlePedestrian ID’d in fatal Duluth crash; police believe driver impaired
DULUTH, Minn. — Police have identified the pedestrian who was struck and killed by a vehicle Tuesday in Duluth, while the driver remains jailed and awaits vehicular homicide charges. Related Articles...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to sexually abusing altar boy at St. Cloud church
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A volunteer accused of sexually abusing a teenage altar boy at a St. Cloud church has pleaded guilty. The St. Cloud Times reported that 55-year-old Douglas Kleinsmith, of Sartell,...
View ArticleMinnesota woman who plotted to kill ex-husband sentenced to 15 years
LE CENTER, Minn. — A Le Sueur woman who pleaded guilty to plotting to have her ex-husband murdered will spend at least nine years in prison. Related Articles Man pleads guilty to sexually abusing altar...
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Attorney who fatally struck St. Paul jogger was using cellphone data at time...
A Twin Cities attorney accused of fatally striking a jogger with his BMW in St. Paul last month was using data on his cellphone at the time the collision occurred, court records say. Records obtained...
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Family of teen missing from St. Paul for 24 years says goodbye
Hang Lee’s family always waited for her to come home, but they also accepted the grim reality as the years passed after she disappeared in St. Paul when she was 17. Hang Lee (Courtesy photo) She’s been...
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Judge rules St. Anthony officer’s manslaughter trial will remain in Ramsey...
A judge ruled Thursday that a St. Anthony police officer’s manslaughter trial will be held in Ramsey County. Ramsey County District Judge William H. Leary III denied a motion by Jeronimo Yanez’s...
View ArticlePassenger accused of choking Somali cabdriver during ride from St. Cloud
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A Willmar man has been charged with bias-motivated assault after a Somali cabdriver said he was choked by a passenger while driving from downtown St. Cloud to a bar east of the...
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Father of pregnant mom killed in crash sees no justice in misdemeanor charge...
A Wisconsin man accused of texting while driving in a horrific crash that killed a 22-year-old pregnant mother last year in Washington County faces one misdemeanor charge. And no felony charges. And...
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‘He killed my whole family’: Father and daughters shot dead in St. Paul
Gunfire on Friday morning claimed the lives of a St. Paul father and the two teenage daughters he doted on. The shooting at a Payne-Phalen apartment also left the girls’ mother clinging to life....
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Minneapolis father convicted of killing infant daughter, but trial continues
A judge has convicted a Minneapolis father accused of killing his infant daughter last fall, but the trial isn’t over yet. Corry Morris. The attorney for Cory Morris is now trying to prove Morris...
View ArticleUnion Gospel Mission staffer abused teen in 1970s, agency says
Administrators of a faith-based homeless shelter and social services agency in downtown St. Paul announced Friday that they had been approached by two men claiming to have been sexually abused by a...
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Duluth woman came to aid of erratic driver who then ran her over, charges say
DULUTH — At least nine people witnessed a Superior, Wis., woman fatally strike a good Samaritan who came to her aid after her vehicle skidded off London Road on Tuesday, according to charges filed...
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