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Homeless man who set fires in former West Publishing building reaches plea deal
A man who started fires inside a derelict downtown St. Paul building where homeless people were asleep is expected to avoid further jail time after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors. Codie...
View ArticleMan starts books on fire at Church of Scientology in St. Paul
A man started a fire in a library in the Church of Scientology in downtown St. Paul on Tuesday. Police were called at about 9:30 p.m. to a report of an arson at the church at 505 Wabasha St. Related...
View ArticleRemember those charity-jar thefts at an Eagan gas station? Police have a...
Eagan police said Wednesday that they have identified a man caught on store surveillance video stealing charity donation jars from a gas station counter last week and have charged him with misdemeanor...
View Article1 girl in genital mutilation case allowed back with parents
A Minnesota girl who prosecutors say was taken to Michigan for a genital mutilation procedure has been allowed to return to her parents. Related Articles When the call isn’t a crime, but a crisis: How...
View ArticleCentral High School student charged with assault after punching teacher
A teenager has been charged with felony-level assault after punching an assistant principal in the head amid a lunchroom brawl at Central High School in St. Paul last month, charges say. Herbert...
View ArticleBCA: Man fatally shot by Ramsey County deputies had disarmed officer
Authorities say a man killed by Ramsey County sheriff’s deputies in Vadnais Heights last weekend had struggled with the officers and disarmed one of them before being fatally shot. The Minnesota Bureau...
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Man suspected in Red Wing sidewalk shooting death is charged with murder
Charles Deonta Jones, 26, of Red Wing, Minn., has been charged in the shooting death of 27-year-old Dangelo Masterjohn. Masterjohn was found dead on a Red Wing sidewalk early Tuesday, April 18, 2017....
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When the call isn’t a crime, but a crisis: How St. Paul police train officers...
The man who called police rubbed his hands together, blinked his eyes rapidly and explained his concerns to the officer: He was watching the bar across the street from his apartment and noticed people...
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‘Hope she understands’: Driver hits kids in crosswalk as St. Paul pedestrian...
Despite a high-profile awareness and enforcement campaign, St. Paul drivers are hitting more pedestrians this year than last year. The tally was 54 pedestrians struck as of April 10, compared with 38...
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After Bayport man’s bar injury and death, organ donor benefit set
Bayport resident Adam McCloud died in October 2012 after being assaulted at a Stillwater bar. But his legacy includes helping to save five people, including a 6-year-old girl, through organ donation....
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Manhunt underway for suspect in Columbia Heights killing
Police are searching for a suspect after a 31-year-old man was killed in Columbia Heights early Thursday morning. The Anoka County sheriffs office says this man is a suspect in a killing in Columbia...
View ArticleProsecutors ask appeals court to deny Officer Yanez’s request to move trial...
Prosecutors are asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to deny Jeronimo Yanez’s request to intervene in his case and allow his trial to be moved outstate. The response filed Thursday by prosecuting...
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‘Wes’ had a job, a girlfriend, a home — and a huge secret
Shortly after his 2013 release from prison for kidnapping and domestic assault, Joseph Thomas Hawkinson became a new man. He assumed a new identity, Wesley Scoggins. He created a Facebook page and a...
View ArticleFired MN deputy harassed BCA agents who busted him, charges say
ROSEAU, Minn. — A former Roseau County sheriff’s deputy has been charged with stalking after allegedly harassing two Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agents through text messages, letters and...
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St. Paul: City officials, law enforcement call for an end to gun violence
Standing near the corner of St. Albans Street and Fuller Avenue Friday where a young man was shot to death earlier this week, St. Paul city and community leaders said it’s up to parents and neighbors...
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Minneapolis man ordered to stand trial in death of Saudi student at UW-Stout
MENOMONIE, Wis. — The force required for the traumatic brain injury that killed a University of Wisconsin-Stout student in October would have equaled that of an automobile crash or a fall from a tall...
View ArticleMore charges filed in alleged genital mutilation of 2 Minnesota girls
DETROIT — Federal prosecutors on Friday expanded their investigation of female genital mutilation in the Detroit area by filing charges against the owner of a clinic where the alleged practice was...
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Authorities hunting for ‘armed and dangerous’ suspect in Columbia Heights...
Authorities have identified a suspect in the Columbia Heights slaying of a 31-year-old St. Louis Park man early Thursday morning. Phillip Leron Miller, 41, of Brooklyn Park is suspected of killing...
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St. Paul 18-year-old charged in Green Line shooting that injured man
As a fight broke out on a Green Line light-rail platform in St. Paul earlier this week, a teenager pulled out a gun and started firing shots, authorities say. Isaiah Charles Bracy, 18, of St. Paul was...
View Article1 dead in Chisago Lakes motorcycle accident
One man is dead following a motorcycle accident in Chisago Lakes Township Saturday afternoon. According to a news release from the Chisago County Sheriff’s Office, the accident was reported at 2:42...
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