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Minnesota’s early taste of winter to stay; truck driver killed on icy roads...
The chance that late fall snow will continue to blanket the Twin Cities remains at least through Wednesday, according to the weather service. Snow finally accumulated to an amount that could be...
View ArticleOakdale man robbed at knife-point outside his home, authorities say
Police are looking for a man who held up an Oakdale homeowner at knife-point this week, authorities say. Oakdale officers responded to a house on the 7500 block of 22nd Avenue N. around 1 p.m....
View ArticlePedestrian struck, killed in Arden Hills, authorities say
A pedestrian was killed when he was struck by a vehicle traveling northbound on Minnesota Highway 51 last night, authorities say. The incident took place around 8 p.m. just south of County Road E,...
View ArticleFatal crash closes portion of New Brighton road
A section of Old Highway 8 in New Brighton was temporarily closed Friday night as law enforcement responded to a fatal crash, authorities say. The crash took place around 4 p.m. at the intersection of...
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St. Catherine’s security guard pleads guilty to falsely reporting crime after...
A St. Catherine University security guard has admitted to falsely accusing a black man of shooting him during an incident that sparked an extensive police manhunt for the made-up perpetrator this fall....
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Teen victim of St. Paul drive-by shooting may never walk again, her family says
A 19-year-old passenger in a car idling at a stoplight was shot by the driver of another vehicle moments after it pulled up at the light in St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood. Diamonte Marie...
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He thought he was talking to a 13-year-old. It turned out to be a federal...
A federal agent in California went fishing last January by posing online as a 13-year-old girl looking for an adult to buy tickets to the racy R-rated film “Fifty Shades of Grey.” He posted the fake...
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He stood watch over boys as his pals raped the girls on Harriet Island,...
While three of his acquaintances repeatedly raped two girls at gunpoint, Deandray Easley “stood watch” over the girls’ male friends who were forced to lie face-down in the grass nearby and listen as...
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Maplewood man bound boy in dark room after spilled pop, charges say
When a 10-year-old boy spilled pop at his Maplewood home on Halloween, his mom’s boyfriend bound his mouth, legs and hands with tape and locked him in a dark room, authorities say. Steven Robert...
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Guilty verdict for shooting up White Bear mother of 3 with fatal dose of...
Nobody got to see Victor Wayne Lynch’s reaction Thursday when a jury found him guilty of aiding and abetting murder in a White Bear Lake woman’s fatal drug overdose last fall. That’s because Lynch was...
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Former Minnesota official pleads guilty after prostitution sting
A former deputy commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Commerce admitted to arranging to pay a woman for sex after finishing up work meetings this past spring, according to court records. Michael...
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St. Paul baby sitter gets more than 10 years in prison for fatally abusing...
An emotional young mother placed two small, silver urns on a table as she walked up to the front of a crowded Ramsey County District courtroom Monday to address the judge. Inside were the remains of...
View ArticleRamsey County public defenders clash with court system over caseloads
Frustrations among public defenders with growing caseloads and what they say is problematic scheduling in the Ramsey County District Court system came to a head this week when a judge held two...
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One of four charged in Harriet Island rape of teenage girls found guilty
Deandray Easley wasn’t the one who sexually assaulted two teenage girls who were repeatedly raped at gunpoint in a St. Paul park this past summer, but his actions that night were enough to convince a...
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Neighbor was intervening in domestic incident when fatally stabbed, charges say
St. Paul police arrested a man carrying a large knife and a bottle of tequila Tuesday after he killed a neighbor who tried to intervene in a domestic disturbance, authorities say. Htoo Day Htoo Day,...
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Vadnais Heights council member pleads guilty to disorderly conduct in...
A Vadnais Heights City Council member pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct Thursday following allegations that he became violent and threatening toward a woman he was seeing. Terry Nyblom entered the...
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Murder charges dropped in shooting outside St. Paul bar
Charges have been dismissed against one of two people accused of fatally shooting a man in the face outside a St. Paul bar this past summer. The Ramsey County attorney’s office announced its decision...
View ArticleCalifornia woman avoids prison for ‘limited role’ in Twin Cities...
A California woman who profited from an international sex-trafficking ring that preyed on foreign-born women in Minnesota won’t be going to prison. After reaching a deal with prosecutors in the case,...
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North Dakota man gets prison for scamming Minnesota welfare programs
A North Dakota man who scammed Minnesota welfare programs out of hundreds of thousands of dollars will spend his next several years in prison. Elfonzo Dyrell Shelby was sentenced Tuesday in Ramsey...
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State Fair groper pleads guilty to assaulting woman and exposing himself to...
An Isanti, Minn., man admitted in court this week to groping a woman and masturbating in front of children at the Minnesota State Fair this past summer, court records say. Jeffrey Thomas Pendzimas, 62,...
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