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Driver neared 80 mph before crash killed 2 Mounds View students, charges say
Mourners left flowers, Teddy bears, pictures and cards Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, where 16-year-old Mounds View High School students Bridget Giere and Stephanie Carlson were killed in a car crash on...
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Raped and pregnant at 14, she sued and won $1M in child-sex tourism case
A Laotian-American woman from the Twin Cities was awarded nearly $1 million Thursday after winning an unprecedented civil suit in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis that sought to hold a former...
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Suspect in St. Paul shooting death arrested at probation office
A St. Paul man has been charged in connection with the homicide of a 36-year-old in St. Paul’s North End earlier this week. Gabriel Robert Kimbrough, 23, faces one count of aiding and abetting...
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Driver in crash that killed 2 Mounds View High students posts bail, leaves jail
The driver charged in a December crash that killed two Mounds View High School students made her first court appearance Friday, where a judge set bail at $150,000. Rachel Diane Kayl bonded out about 5...
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Charges: A man stole a woman’s phone in downtown St. Paul. When she followed...
A woman was walking to a light rail station in downtown St. Paul last fall when she says a stranger stole her cellphone as a means to lure her into a dark parking ramp. Concerned about losing photos of...
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3 implicated in St. Paul shooting death of Minnetonka High student plead guilty
Three of the four people charged in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Minnetonka High School student last fall have taken plea deals. Vincent Reanell Harris, left, Christopher Rayshawn Calloway,...
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Former South St. Paul financial adviser sentenced for swindling client
A financial adviser from South St. Paul was sentenced recently in Ramsey County District Court for stealing more than $20,000 from a client and plotting to steal money from another. Jennifer Rebecca...
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St. Paul man admits aiding offender who shot, severely injured young father
A St. Paul man admitted in court to helping his acquaintance evade arrest after the man shot and severely injured a young father over a dispute about marijuana and counterfeit money. Tristian Lavonn...
View ArticleCoon Rapids woman who worked with vulnerable adults sentenced for stealing...
A Coon Rapids woman was ordered to spend two days in jail after bilking vulnerable adults out of money while working as a supervisor for an organization that serves people with disabilities. Nichole...
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Officer’s defense can bring up Philando Castile’s marijuana use, judge rules
Evidence of marijuana use by Philando Castile on the day he was fatally shot by a St. Anthony police officer can be used at the officer’s manslaughter trial, a Ramsey County judge ruled Tuesday....
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Girl, 15, he lured to St. Paul park turned out to be BCA agent, charges say
It was the nature of the Craigslist ad that caught a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent’s attention. The poster said he was looking for “serious girls” who shared his interest in incest...
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Cigarette thief who assaulted gas station clerk is sentenced. He is suspected...
A St. Paul man suspected of repeatedly assaulting clerks at area gas stations before running off with stolen cigarettes is heading to prison. Kendall Bernard Russell, 47, was sentenced Thursday in...
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Suspected gang member sentenced for role in shooting death at St. Paul park
A 19-year-old will be nearly a decade older when he is released from prison for his role in a chaotic altercation between rival gangs that left an 18-year-old slain at St. Paul’s Indian Mounds Regional...
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‘Any last words?’ Woman tells jury that’s what her ex said before he shot her
John Steurer had a favorite put-down for his wife of more than 20 years. “I was about as dumb as a box of rocks. That’s what he’d always tell me,” the woman said from a witness stand Tuesday in Ramsey...
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‘I didn’t want to shoot her in the head … just … scare her,’ ex-husband...
With the left side of his face disfigured from gunshot wounds, John Steurer told a jury why he shot his ex-wife last November before turning the gun on himself during a standoff with police. “It wasn’t...
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Motion to dismiss felony charges in Philando Castile I-94 protest denied
The man facing the most serious charges stemming from the temporary shutdown of Interstate 94 last summer is heading toward trial. Ramsey County District Judge Leonardo Castro on Thursday denied Louis...
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Ex who asked ‘Any last words?’ guilty of attempted murder
John Steurer meant to kill his ex-wife when he ambushed her at her North St. Paul office last fall and shot her with a 20-gauge shotgun as she tried to flee, jurors have decided. The Ramsey County...
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In Philando Castile case, prosecutors face hurdles as officer’s trial opens...
Ask a legal expert how tough it is to get a conviction against a police officer charged with fatally shooting someone in the line of duty and there’s a good chance they’ll point you to the case of...
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Philando Castile case: A list of who’s who
Jeronimo Yanez Jeronimo Yanez (Courtesy of Ramsey County sheriff’s office) DEFENDANT: The 29-year-old St. Anthony police officer pulled Castile over July 6, 2016, after telling his partner that the...
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Philando Castile case: What do both sides look for in a juror?
In the most highly anticipated trial to take place in Minnesota in some time, one key element still remains up in the air: the jury. With the trial of the St. Anthony police officer charged in the...
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