Judge cracks down on first ex-boyfriend sentenced for ‘revenge porn’ in...
Michael Weigel’s former partner woke up last December to a stunning email from her ex. “You will never live in peace. You will live in shame and embarrassment for the rest of your life,” the email...
View ArticleSister stabbed in face, throat, left in critical condition, St. Paul charges say
A St. Paul man is accused of repeatedly stabbing his sister in the face, neck and chest at their mother’s home Monday. Pierre Davonne Ramsey, 25, was charged Tuesday with one count of second-degree...
View ArticleConviction reversed for girlfriend who claimed self-defense in stabbing death
A St. Paul woman found guilty of fatally stabbing her boyfriend last year is poised to get a second chance at proving her actions were in self-defense. The Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed and...
View ArticleSt. Paul student charged in school assault during mental health crisis
A student in the midst of a mental health crisis who assaulted three St. Paul high school staff members last month now faces criminal charges. The 16-year-old was charged with third, fourth and...
View ArticleTeen who admitted raping 12-year-old gets probation, Facebook ban
A 19-year-old was placed on 15 years of probation and told to stay away from Facebook and underage girls after raping a 12-year-old at a friend’s house last year in St. Paul. Ramsey County District...
View ArticleHe’s charged after living alongside decaying bodies of mother, brother for a...
Months after his mother and twin brother died, a White Bear Lake man sent out a Christmas card saying the two were still alive but in bad health. He also wrote that his mom didn’t want visitors at the...
View ArticleHe was the lookout when St. Paul man fell dying into stairwell, Michigan man...
Matthew Alex Morton was the lookout guy. It was his job to stand outside Gracson Eugene Simmons’ apartment while his friend, Christopher Jerome McKay, broke into his home and robbed him, Morton said in...
View ArticleRegions Hospital is sued, years after stillborn baby discarded with dirty...
The family of a stillborn baby discarded in Regions Hospital’s dirty laundry after staff promised to cremate the remains is suing the medical institution. The mother of the child, Esmeralda Hernandez,...
View ArticleMaplewood man sentenced for defrauding people with false promise of Hmong...
Seng Xiong preyed upon “the open wounds” of particularly vulnerable people within the Hmong community when the Maplewood man promised them access to a new Hmong homeland in Southeast Asia in exchange...
View ArticleA guilty plea, but no motive disclosed, in girl’s drive-up shooting death
Dauntrelle Bullock admitted to driving up alongside another vehicle in St. Paul this past summer and fatally shooting a 17-year-old girl riding as a passenger inside it, court records say. Keyira Nunn...
View ArticleAddicted teen charged with jumping Walgreens counter, grabbing 300+ pills
A young St. Paul man addicted to opioid-based painkillers hopped over the counter at a Walgreens on Monday afternoon and ordered a pharmacist to empty all the prescription narcotics out of a safe,...
View ArticleDog lost eye, sustained broken jaw and ribs after St. Paul man ‘savagely’...
A St. Paul man accused of beating his partner’s dog and leaving it for dead after it relieved itself in a relative’s bathroom was found unfit to defend himself against the allegations, court records...
View ArticleSuit: St. Paul police caused ‘massive facial trauma’ to man never charged...
Michael Fleming was standing in a kitchen inside a St. Paul apartment about six years ago when police officers burst into the unit with a search warrant and physically assaulted him without cause,...
View ArticleRamsey County prosecutor keeps the faith — and keeps running — after heart...
Yasmin Mullings just wrapped up three grueling back-to-back criminal trials and was training for a marathon when she found herself with a sick feeling she couldn’t shake. The longtime Ramsey County...
View ArticleIllinois man charged with fatally shooting St. Paul man in strip club parking...
An Illinois man is accused of gunning down a 37-year-old father found dead in the parking lot of the Lamplighter Lounge in St. Paul late last month. Peter Devonn Crosby, 35, was charged Friday with one...
View ArticleMinneapolis cop charged with threatening to shoot sister-in-law in St. Paul
A Minneapolis police officer threatened to hide in the bushes and shoot his sister-in-law, authorities say. James John Lopez, 55, was charged via warrant Friday with one count of felony-level threats...
View ArticleMeet an owl in Maplewood next weekend
The University of Minnesota’s Raptor Center will host its Outstanding Owl program at the Bruentrup Heritage Farm in Maplewood Saturday, Oct. 28. Attendees will get the chance to meet an owl “up close,”...
View ArticleMetro prosecutors ramp up pursuit of drug dealers in overdose cases
Jennafer Meyers is accused of paying an Andover man who fixed her laptop with prescription pain-medicine last December. Four years earlier, Dennis Rivers took methadone pills and crack cocaine to his...
View ArticleWoman charged in St. Paul man’s weekend shooting death
Dawahn Darnell Littles was trying to break up a fight in front of his home on Dale Street early Saturday morning when several gunshots popped off. His older brother then heard him yell, “I’m hit,”...
View ArticleRamsey County’s first murder trial stemming from a fatal drug overdose begins
A drug addict who died a slow and sad death because of her own reckless decision to shoot up heroin, or a murder victim who overdosed after a fellow user shot her up with what ended up being a lethal...
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