Dog and cock fighting suspected at western Wisconsin property; 1,300 animals...
More than 1,000 roosters and dogs are being removed from a property in western Wisconsin after authorities say they found evidence that the animals were involved in organized fighting and living in...
View ArticleSt. Paul man apologizes at sentencing for drunk-driving crash that led to...
Kanyi Williams told a judge Thursday that he was sorry he took a son from his parents and that he lost a friend when he drove drunk last spring, smashing his vehicle into a power pole. “There is...
View ArticleMan with history of lewd conduct accused of masturbating in St. Paul Hotel...
A Roseville man with a history of peeping into homeowner’s windows is accused of masturbating in public inside the St. Paul Hotel. A bartender at the hotel in downtown St. Paul called police Wednesday...
View ArticleMarijuana deal goes bad, leads to fatal shooting of St. Paul teen, charges say
What started as an attempted robbery during a marijuana deal in a St. Paul neighborhood last week ended with a 19-year-old dying in the street, authorities say. Wilbert E’lee Harris-McCalister sat in...
View ArticleTeen charged with attempted murder in connection with St. Paul robbery that...
A 17-year-old is charged with attempted murder in connection with what police say was a shootout between gang members in St. Paul last week that left another teen dead. Jayvon Andrew Malone of Forest...
View ArticleJudge finds Minneapolis police officer not guilty of charges that he...
A Minneapolis police officer accused of threatening to shoot his in-law was found not guilty of the charge due to differing accounts of what happened, court records say. Ramsey County District Court...
View ArticleMan accused of kidnapping, raping teen inside St. Paul home now charged with...
A man under investigation for his role in his girlfriend’s death inside her St. Paul home earlier this summer has been charged with her murder. Ivan Walker, 33, faces one count of intentional...
View ArticleSt. Paul man sentenced to 20 years for brutal knife attack on sister
A St. Paul man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for repeatedly stabbing his sister in the face, neck and chest at their mother’s home last fall. Pierre Davonne Ramsey received the sentence...
View ArticleSt. Paul school janitor admits to leaving notes for girl, 10, asking for her...
A janitor at an elementary school in St. Paul admitted to writing lewd, anonymous notes to a 10-year-old student that offered to pay the girl for her underwear. Oscar Herrera, 23, made the admission in...
View ArticleThirty years later, serial burglar admits to strangling 81-year-old Lilian...
It took 30 years, but Michael Withers finally admitted he strangled an 81-year-old woman during a burglary attempt inside her St. Paul home during the winter of 1987. Withers made the admission Friday...
View ArticleCharges dropped against woman suspected of aiding son after St. Paul biker’s...
The mother accused of helping her son cover up his involvement in a fatal hit-and-run collision with a bicyclist on St. Paul’s Grand Avenue last fall no longer faces criminal charges in the case....
View ArticleMassage therapist drank vodka, groped client at St. Paul Athletic Club,...
An interim massage therapist at the St. Paul Athletic Club is accused of sexually assaulting a club member while he was giving the woman a massage at the downtown establishment this past May. Gregory...
View ArticleMaple Grove woman tearfully admits speed caused crash that killed 2 Mounds...
Rachel Kayl was driving about 80 mph when her SUV smashed into a vehicle carrying three teens to school on a dark December morning now almost two years ago, killing two of them. Bridget Giere and...
View ArticleMan with hands down pants threatens students who confronted him at St. Paul...
A girl at a St. Paul elementary school noticed a suspicious man lurking near their playground earlier this week and told some of her classmates. As the man started heading in her direction, her friends...
View ArticleIllinois man admits fatally shooting St. Paul father of five outside...
Peter Devonn Crosby was mad about something Ja’uan Love said about his recently deceased uncle when he pulled out a gun outside the Lamplighter Lounge last fall and shot the father of five. Crosby...
View ArticleMan faces life in prison for bludgeoning 79-year-old woman to death in St....
In less than three hours, a Ramsey County District Court jury Monday convicted one of two men charged in the brutal 2017 killing of a 79-year-old St. Paul woman. The first-degree murder conviction...
View ArticleTeens charged with felonies after burglary spree on St. Paul’s East Side
Three teenage boys are accused of forcing entry into several homes in St. Paul’s East Side last month and making off with cash, jewelry and other personal belongings, authorities say. In one instance,...
View ArticleSt. Paul man sentenced to decades in prison for ‘execution-style’ slaying of...
A St. Paul man who gunned down the son of a chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will spend decades in prison. Despite his defense attorney’s efforts to get him less time, Ramsey County...
View ArticleTwin Cities officials seek money for mental health and drug crisis: ‘We can’t...
It’s become a refrain among those in the criminal justice system, and it was repeated again Thursday by law enforcement authorities from Ramsey and Hennepin counties. “We can’t arrest our way out of...
View ArticleSuspect admits role in beating death and robbery of elderly St. Paul woman
Richard Joles knew his former in-law intended to rough up an elderly St. Paul woman when he robbed her in early 2017. Joles even drove Kevin Reek to the neighborhood and pointed out where she lived. He...
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