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Victims of Tom Petters’ Ponzi scheme starting to get some of their money back
After nearly a decade, victims of disgraced Twin Cities businessman Tom Petters’ sweeping Ponzi scheme have started recouping some of their losses. The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced...
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19-year-old charged with murder, accused of shooting of 21-year-old in St. Paul
As people played a dice game in St. Paul, a man approached, pointed a gun at them and demanded money. He then shot and killed a 21-year-old, according to a murder charge filed Wednesday. The Ramsey...
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BCA search warrant: Hughes pointed gun at roommate’s head, fired into wall...
Before police fatally shot William Hughes earlier this month, the St. Paul man fired two or three rounds into a bedroom wall and pointed a gun at a roommate’s head, legal documents say. Affidavits for...
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St. Paul man gets four years in fatal hit-and-run of Brasa bicyclist
Friends and supporters of a bicyclist struck and killed in a hit-and-run collision on Grand Avenue last November spilled out of a Ramsey County courtroom Wednesday. Some wore t-shirts from Brasa...
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Ex-Como Park athletic director who swindled thousands gets probation,...
A prosecutor scolded the former athletic director of Como Park Senior High Thursday for failing to take full responsibility for his decision to swindle the St. Paul school district out of tens of...
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Alleged peeper charged after exposing himself outside St. Paul homes, police say
A St. Paul man faces charges after breaking into the front porch of a St. Paul home last spring and masturbating while peering into the resident’s windows, authorities say. Police suspect Gentry James...
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Eden Prairie man accused of assisting in wife’s suicide
An Eden Prairie man is accused of helping his apparently ailing wife kill herself, authorities say. Thomas James Houck, 61, was charged Monday with one count of aiding another’s suicide, according to...
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Ramsey County judge, not a jury, will decide if Minneapolis cop is guilty of...
A Minneapolis police officer charged with threatening to hide in the bushes and shoot his former sister-in-law has waived his right to a jury trial. James John Lopez will instead have his case decided...
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Former Roseville massage therapist now registered sex offender after...
A Roseville massage therapist accused of sexually assaulting a longtime client will have to spend a year in jail and register as a sex-offender. Ramsey County District Judge Timothy Mulrooney handed...
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St. Paul man allegedly stole car with 3-year-old inside as grandmother...
A 3-year-old boy was kidnapped in St. Paul earlier this month while his grandmother went inside a convenience store to pay for gas, authorities say. The boy was in the back seat of her Pontiac when...
View ArticleHam Lake man hurt after crashing vintage plane at Blaine airport
A vintage aircraft was engulfed in flames Thursday morning after crashing on the runway at the Anoka County-Blaine Airport, authorities say. A 65-year-old man from Ham Lake was flying alone when he...
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Possible link between two fatal shootings that broke out over four days in...
A fatal shooting in front of the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension offices in St. Paul last week that left a young father dead may be connected to a homicide that occurred days earlier, court...
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Postal employee accused of firing shotgun into Federal Reserve Bank in...
A U.S. Postal Service employee is accused of firing a shotgun into the Federal Reserve Bank building in downtown Minneapolis last month while some employees were still inside and hundreds of spectators...
View ArticleKARE-TV anchor Randy Shaver announces second battle with cancer
A Twin Cities news anchor who battled cancer two decades ago announced Monday that he’s fighting the disease for a second time. KARE-TV’s Randy Shaver said via Twitter on Monday evening that he’s been...
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Minneapolis man gets life in prison for murdering father in front of his...
A Minneapolis man who murdered a 32-year-old father in front of his children last summer will spend the rest of his life in prison. The sentence came Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court about two...
View ArticleSt. Paul son of Minneapolis cop faces 20 felony counts of possessing child...
The son of a Minneapolis police officer accused of threatening to kill his sister-in-law faces criminal charges after authorities in St. Paul say he stockpiled child pornography on his computer. James...
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Relative of murdered St. Paul man calls defendant an ‘animal,’‘coward’ at...
Anger over the loss of their loved one and frustration with the limitations of Minnesota’s sentencing guidelines dominated the sentencing hearing for the last of four defendants convicted of killing a...
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Gang expert has met thousands of gang members. None of them monsters, he says.
The Rev. Gregory Boyle has buried far too many young people killed through gang violence. He’s had guns pulled on him by gang members and testified at dozens of their death penalty trials. But the...
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Witnesses challenge woman’s accusation that Minneapolis cop threatened her
The relative of a Minneapolis police officer who claims he threatened to shoot her was mad over family money issues when she made the accusation and has a history of being dishonest, according to...
View ArticleSt. Paul father on drugs when he flipped SUV with baby, pregnant woman...
A St. Paul man was on drugs when he flipped his vehicle while driving with his family on Interstate 694 in Arden Hills earlier this summer, causing serious injuries to his one-year-old son and the...
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