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A former Wisconsin police officer accused of killing an Oregon woman and another from Minnesota and ditching their bodies in suitcases along a highway is set to stand trial this week in the first woman's death. Here's what you need to know.
A vehicle crashed into the Maple Grove North SuperTarget store early Saturday morning. Police say the crash happened just before 5 a.m. at the store on the 15300 block of Grove Circle North.
A Minnesota man accused of starting a fire that heavily damaged a Somali restaurant in Grand Forks had pleaded not guilty in federal court. Twenty-five-year-old Matthew Gust of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, is charged with malicious use of explosive materials.
A woman was arrested and then rushed to the hospital after a high-speed chase and brief standoff in Eagan Friday afternoon. Police say an officer tried to pull a woman over on Interstate 35E and Lone Oak Road for expired registration and an equipment violation.
Authorities say someone abandoned a dog in a large duffel bag at a wildlife area in south-central Wisconsin.
Police have identified the man arrested for robbing a Payless Shoe store Thursday night in the north metro and holding two workers hostage.
A 40-year-old man was sentenced Friday to more than four years in prison for illegally buying and shipping millions of dollars worth of tobacco products to Minnesota. Rashid Fehmi Ibrahim was convicted of six counts of shipment, transport, receive, possess, sell, distribute and purchase contraband smokeless tobacco.
Police have taken a man into custody following a shoe store robbery and hostage situation in Coon Rapids. The incident happened at about 8:45 p.m. Thursday at a Payless Shoes store on the 8500 block of Springbrook Drive Northwest.
An Eveleth man was found guilty Thursday in the overdose death of a 21-year-old woman in 2013. The St. Louis County Attorney's Office says Bryan Joseph Hodapp, 27, was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Krystal Wicklund.
Three University of Minnesota students have been robbed in the past three days.
A driver had a novel excuse for distracted driving: he says his book was too good to put down. An Eagan police officer spotted a car swerving and driving 15 miles below the speed limit on Dodd Road Tuesday afternoon.
The Minnesota Department of Corrections is looking for a Level III predatory offender who is no longer complying with the conditions of his release from custody. Authorities say Douglas Lynn Peterson, 66, was released from jail on Nov. 5, 2014, to intensive supervised release in Hennepin County.
The Burnsville Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying a suspect involved in multiple instances of check fraud.
A priest is leaving a Battle Creek parish as some members of the southwestern Michigan diocese became angered to learn that he led a Minnesota archdiocese during a clergy sex abuse scandal.
Police are investigating a pair of armed robberies that happened near the University of Minnesota overnight. Police say the two incidents happened between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 a.m. Thursday, and in both cases the victim reported being approached by two people.
