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Anguished family faces suspect in Highland Park woman’s brutal murder
Phanny Phay’s family crowded into four rows inside a Ramsey County courtroom Tuesday to watch her longtime boyfriend make his first court appearance after being charged in her brutal murder. Andre...
View ArticleTwo decades in prison for 17-year-old who shot and killed former Oakdale high...
A 17-year-old was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for fatally shooting a recent Oakdale high school graduate during a drug deal in St. Paul last summer. Da-Seion Pugh died trying to escape...
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Man repeatedly punched newborn son in face, charges say
A Little Canada man is accused of severely injuring his newborn son after repeatedly punching the crying 4-week-old child in the face, authorities say. Ramsey County sheriff's officeJohnny Taylor...
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Body found in Interstate Park is that of missing Oakdale kayaker, authorities...
A body found near the St. Croix River bottoms on the Wisconsin side of Interstate State Park this week has been identified as that of an Oakdale man who went missing over the summer after reportedly...
View ArticleArrests for drinking and driving soared statewide on Thanksgiving Eve
Law enforcement made more than 100 arrests for unlawful drinking and driving across Minnesota last night, more than triple the amount made on an average Wednesday, authorities say. The Minnesota...
View ArticleSt. Paul Almanac’s high-tech media hub found safe on Thanksgiving Day
A St. Paul-based literary-arts organization found itself with an unexpected reason to be grateful on Thanksgiving when its treasured Storymobile was discovered intact by a local resident days after...
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He wanted to tell a jury why he protested Philando Castile's death on I-94....
When Jeffrey Berger stood beside hundreds of other protesters and blocked traffic for hours on Interstate 94 following the 2016 police shooting of Philando Castile, he says he knew he was putting...
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Self-defense? Trial opens in 16-inch knife-wound killing in St. Paul
Maxim Kenneth Rhone acted strangely in the weeks leading up to her arrest for the murder of Gerald Montantes in the fall of 2016, prosecutors say. The 26-year-old told police days earlier that she was...
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Home-invaders: ‘If you move, I’ll blow your head off,’ St. Paul resident...
“If you move, I’ll blow your head off,” the intruder said as he pressed a gun to the back of a St. Paul resident’s head last week. The threat came shortly after the 45-year-old resident in the 1200...
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Woodbury man charged in New Brighton woman’s fatal overdose
Hours after a Woodbury man dropped off heroin to a woman last March in New Brighton, her boyfriend called the dealer to say something was wrong, authorities say. The man told John Jay Williams that his...
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St. Paul man gets jail time for biting 3-year-old’s cheek
A St. Paul man was sentenced to 100 days in jail for biting a 3-year-old’s face after getting into a fight with the child’s mother. Scottie Dale Heckel, 20, was ordered to serve the jail time by a...
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She got a ride from an elderly St. Paul man, then stalked him for more,...
Misty McKinley met an 84-year-old St. Paul man with signs of dementia at a gas station when she walked up to him and asked him for a ride. Then she started stalking him, showing up uninvited at his...
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Roseville massage therapist charged in sexual assault of longtime client
“What happens in this room stays in this room.” That’s what a massage therapist said to his client moments after sexually assaulting her during a session at his Roseville business this fall,...
View ArticleRapist slammed victim’s head into wall near downtown light rail, charges say
A St. Paul man is charged with raping a woman he met less than an hour before near a light-rail station in St. Paul, authorities say. Torrie Lee Bolden, 41, was charged Thursday with one count of...
View ArticleRoseville man sexually assaulted wife’s day care children, charges say
The husband of a Roseville-based home day care provider is accused of sexually assaulting three children cared for at the site, authorities say. Edgar Noe Lopez-Monter, 44, was charged Thursday with...
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After being cut-off from alcohol, St. Paul woman threatens bar bouncers with...
After a St. Paul woman was cut off at a Little Canada bar, she went home and grabbed her pink stun gun, authorities say. Holding the device in one hand and pepper spray in the other, Tiffany Marie...
View ArticleJury finds civilly committed woman not guilty in St. Paul stabbing death
A jury has found that a St. Paul woman who fatally stabbed her roommate’s boyfriend days after telling police she was God had acted in defense of her home. After more than a day and a half of...
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Man stole Taser, handcuffs, ammunition from Metro Transit police station,...
A Minnetonka man faces criminal charges after stealing a Taser, handcuffs, ammunition and other law enforcement equipment from a Metro Transit police department in St. Paul, authorities say. Demario...
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One year on, prosecutor discusses cop’s ‘unreasonable panic’ in Castile killing
After Philando Castile was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights nearly a year and a half ago, it seemed like nearly everyone wanted to weigh in on what should...
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St. Catherine University security guard who falsely said black man shot him...
A St. Catherine University security guard who falsely reported to police that he was shot by a black man will not have to serve any immediate jail time and could avoid it altogether. During his...
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