Central High student charged with assault after punching assistant principal
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 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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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 ArticleCossetta’s sues city of St. Paul over sale of expansion project land
A historic Italian eatery in St. Paul is suing the city after its plans to expand on city-owned property fell through, according to a representative for the company. Cossetta’s filed the lawsuit in...
View ArticleSt. Paul man charged with starting blaze at Church of Scientology
A member of the Church of Scientology in St. Paul was sitting in the building’s second-floor library when she says she saw a man pull out a jug from his backpack. Related Articles DFL delegate count...
View ArticleCharges dropped against St. Paul woman accused of sex-trafficking; attorney...
The Ramsey County attorney’s office has dropped charges against a woman accused of helping run a sex-trafficking operation out of two St. Paul homes. The move comes nearly two months after a jury...
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‘You put the gun in her mouth,’ judge says, handing wife killer 40 years
April Tennin “epitomized the American dream,” a prosecutor said Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court. Though she went through “tough times” in her childhood, she pulled herself up out of them,...
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Man admits to slashing tires after Menards clerk rejected return
A man admitted in court this week to retaliating against a Maplewood Menards by slashing tires in the store’s parking lot after a store clerk wouldn’t let him return an item without a receipt. Shawn...
View ArticleEx-finance official allegedly embezzled more than $100,000 from Hamline U
A supervisor in the accounts payable department at Hamline University stole more than $150,000 from the school by creating fake vendor accounts and cashing checks issued by the university into her...
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Yanez request for outstate trial in Philando Castile shooting denied again
The latest attempt by defense attorneys to get the upcoming trial of the St. Anthony police officer charged in the fatal shooting of Philando Castile moved outstate has been thwarted. Officer Jeronimo...
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Defending himself in St. Paul murder, he says state failed to prove case
Benjamin Lee Harris said Friday that he feels “empathy” for the man he is accused of killing during an early morning robbery in St. Paul in September. Sitting in orange prison garb inside a Ramsey...
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She called in a bomb threat — and bank got her caller ID, police say
A woman called a Wells Fargo branch in downtown St. Paul on Thursday and threatened to blow the place up if its employees didn’t follow her instructions, charges say. Ann Marie Simpkins, 59, told the...
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Former St. Jude’s executive who swindled company of more than $100,000 avoids...
A former executive at St. Jude Medical Inc. avoided prison time after admitting to swindling the company out of more than $100,000, according to court records. Bryan Charles Szweda was sentenced in...
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As St. Paul officer goes on trial, squad car video shows altercation with...
A video of a screaming, frantic teen being dragged into a squad car by officers stood out during the opening day of a trial against a St. Paul police officer accused of punching the handcuffed...
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Girls on the Run teaches girls health, confidence, teamwork
As soon as their coach said “go,” the girls took off running down the hallway at Maxfield Elementary School, panting and shrieking as they dodged the hands of those who were “it.” The last-minute game...
View ArticleCharges dropped against St. Paul man accused of stealing Cadillac over drug debt
Charges were dropped against a St. Paul man accused of stealing a Cadillac to pay off a drug debt. The Ramsey County attorney’s office dismissed the case against Frankie Edward Adams last week,...
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Defense aims to air Philando Castile’s record at Officer Yanez manslaughter...
The arrest and driving record of the man fatally shot by a St. Anthony police officer during a traffic stop last summer could be raised at the officer’s trial. Philando Castile’s record was listed as...
View ArticleOther charges dropped after acquittal in Highland Park shooting death
Charges were dropped against a woman accused of helping her boyfriend evade police in a fatal St. Paul shooting after the man was acquitted at trial. The Ramsey County Attorney’s office Monday...
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Yanez defense wants jury to know about Philando Castile’s past marijuana use
Defense attorneys for the St. Anthony police officer charged in the shooting death of Philando Castile during a traffic stop last summer want Castile’s marijuana use to be admissible as evidence during...
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