Of 646 reported east metro sex assaults, only 11 percent saw charges. What...
If someone reports to police that he or she was raped in Ramsey County, chances are slim that criminal charges will be filed in the case. A study recently released by the Ramsey County attorney’s...
View ArticleRoseville massage therapist found not guilty of sexually assaulting client
A jury has acquitted a former Roseville massage therapist accused of sexually assaulting a client. On April 20, Marion Guy Anderson, 39, was found not guilty in Ramsey County District Court of two...
View ArticleVadnais Heights City Council member pleads guilty to violating restraining...
A Vadnais Heights City Council member has pleaded guilty to violating a restraining order taken out against him by his ex-girlfriend. Terry Nyblom, 54, entered a guilty plea to one count of violating a...
View ArticleMahtomedi driver gets jail for speeding, head-on crash on Roseville street
A Mahtomedi man was sentenced to 180 days in jail for racing through the Roseville area at speeds topping 120 miles per hour plowing into an SUV, seriously injuring the other driver. Michael Flodine,...
View ArticleFor giving concussion to comedian Josh Blue, St. Paul man gets jail time
A St. Paul man is heading to jail after punching a nationally known comedian in the face at a bar on University Avenue and taking off with his wallet. Anthony Charles Deberry, 36, was ordered to serve...
View ArticleSt. Paul man took baseball bat to car of bartender who declined to serve him...
About half an hour after closing time, a St. Paul man walked into a bar on Arcade Street last winter and tried to order a drink. John Wesley Dornfeld When the bartender at Vogel’s Lounge told John...
View ArticleSt. Paul man who repeatedly stabbed woman at homeless shelter in head...
A St. Paul man who repeatedly stabbed a woman in the head, face, side and stomach at a downtown St. Paul homeless shelter is heading to prison. On Wednesday, Ramsey County District Judge Thomas...
View ArticleSentence for mother who claims fatal stabbing of boyfriend was self-defense...
Natalie Pollard’s attorney told a judge Monday that watching his client be sentenced for doing something he said “most people” would have done in her situation was a “bitter pill” to swallow. Still,...
View ArticleLate St. Paul philanthropist John Nasseff’s granddaughter charged with...
The granddaughter of one of St. Paul’s most prolific philanthropists has been charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her former employer. Tawnee Marie Nasseff, 48, was charged...
View ArticleIllegal gun charge dropped against Vadnais Heights dad implicated in school...
One of three gun-related charges filed against the Vadnais Heights father of a boy accused of threatening violence against fellow students has been dismissed. On Monday authorities dropped one count of...
View ArticleMinneapolis man admits to ‘brutal’ assault of St. Paul officer
Ramsey County sheriff's officeConi Lamark Shegog A Minneapolis man admitted to repeatedly striking a police officer who was attempting to resolve an order for protection violation in St. Paul, sending...
View ArticleMan pulled down pants of sleeping woman on light-rail train in St. Paul,...
A woman was sleeping on a light rail train heading into downtown St. Paul earlier this spring when she was startled by a man pulling down her pants, authorities say. That man, 70-year-old Kenneth Ray...
View ArticleSt. Paul man who killed girlfriend thought he was battling a demon, found not...
Hours before she was slain by her boyfriend, Phanny Phay sent a string of text messages to one of his mentors describing her fear as she watched the man she loved grow increasingly delusional....
View ArticleJudge forced to give new sentence to St. Paul man convicted of ‘horrible’...
A judge who handed down a record sentence to a St. Paul man convicted of running a sex trafficking ring was forced to scale back his prison time after the Minnesota Court of Appeals found his sentence...
View ArticleSt. Paul man involved in murder of young father called ‘monster’ at sentencing
Lisa Kirkwood admonished the state court system Tuesday for failing to deliver sentences for Gabriel Kimbrough’s past crimes that were harsh enough to thwart his increasingly violent behavior. Instead,...
View ArticleLittle Canada man sentenced for punching his newborn as if ‘he was a grown man’
Johnny Taylor repeatedly punched his newborn son’s face like “he was a grown man,” almost killing him, according to a Ramsey County District Court judge. For that, the 23-year-old Little Canada man was...
View ArticleMan who held St. Paul couple at gunpoint during home invasion sentenced to...
A teen who held a gun to a St. Paul homeowner’s head last winter and threatened to “blow (his) head off” as he ransacked the man’s house will spend nearly five years in prison. Martonio Jeremiah...
View ArticleA chance at a new life ends for defendant in overdoses at 2011 party
Cathy LaMere started the countdown as soon as her son was convicted. Sentenced to 10 years for providing the drug his friend died using, she knew he’d get out in about six with good behavior. Six...
View ArticleFor ‘traumatizing’ break-in at Mayor Melvin Carter’s home, burglar gets prison
A Roseville man was sentenced to four years in prison for burglarizing the home of St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter in August, an incident Carter described as “traumatizing” for him and his family. Ramsey...
View ArticleThousands of teens can access free memberships to YMCA locations across...
Thousands of high school students across the metro-area can hit the gym this summer free of charge thanks to a program aimed at offering young people safe and healthy options when school is not in...
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