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The start of a new week in St. Paul marks the end of a deadly one. Three people died last week on the east side of the city. That makes the 10th murder of the year in St. Paul.
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The start of a new week in St. Paul marks the end of a deadly one. Three people died last week on the east side of the city. That makes the 10th murder of the year in St. Paul.
One person was killed Saturday night in a one-vehicle rollover crash in western Wisconsin and another was arrested for driving drunk, according to the St. Croix County Sheriff's Office.
Minneapolis police say a domestic dispute turned deadly Saturday afternoon. Police received a report of a man screaming at a residence on the 1500 block of Queen Avenue North, and officers were sent to do a welfare check.
On Thursday night, many people received an AMBER Alert directly to their phone, notifying them of a little girl, taken by her mother. It's an unfamiliar notification that pops up right on our phones -- and an image that simultaneously shows up on street signs.
Another man has been charged in last weekend's shooting death that left a mother dead in St. Paul. Sarah Wierstad, 24, was shot around 8 p.m. Sunday near her home at the intersection of Beaumont and Bedford streets in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood.
The AMBER alert system did its job yesterday after authorities say a mother abducted her child. Authorities issued the alert after they say Yusra Abumayaleh, 30, her 15 month old daughter from a Coon Rapids daycare on Wednesday.
Two men were charged with murder Thursday after a fight in a Maplewood bar last year left another man dead. Police say one of the men is currently incarcerated in St. Cloud, but the other is still at large, and there's a warrant out for his arrest.
A 38-year-old Champlin woman has been charged with allegedly sending anonymous threats to neighbors regarding their children.
Authorities have made a couple arrests in connection with a fatal shooting in Winona that took place over the weekend. Police say 23-year-old Lonnie Lavonte Keymone Hudson was arrested in Wausau, Wisconsin Thursday night after a brief foot chase.
According to a press release from the Inver Grove Police Department, officers responded to a report of a distraught female on the 6900 block of Claude Avenue at around 3:00 p.m. Upon arrival, police determined the 50-year-old woman fired a gun in the house.
A man is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a St. Paul woman. Alvin Bell is accused of shooting Sarah Wierstad outside her home on Sunday evening near the corner of Bedford and Beaumont streets.
A Sauk Center man was taken into custody after allegedly driving nearly twice the speed limit in a 60 mph zone early Thursday. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office says that they pulled over a vehicle traveling north on Highway 71 near County Road 187 just after midnight.
It took a jury less than two hours Thursday to convict a two-time convicted sex offender of producing and distributing child pornography. The United States Attorney's Office says 52-year-old Rex Lee Furman, of Federal Dam, was convicted after a three-day trial of 13 counts of producing child porn, two counts of distributing it and one count each of receipt of child porn, possession of child porn and committing a felony while required to register as a sex offender.
Officials have called off an AMBER alert issued for a 15-month-old child whose mother was suspected of taking her from a north metro day care center after she recently lost custody.
Authorities in Chanhassen are warning residents to be alert after a series of home burglaries in the area over the last month. The Chanhassen Police Department says that since Sept. 15, there have been at least five residential burglaries reported in the city.
