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Police and firefighters across Minnesota are retiring in greater numbers, a development attributed to changes in the state pension rule. About 300 officers and firefighters retire each year. But for the fiscal year ending June 30, there will be an estimated 600 retirements.
Minneapolis Police are looking for a suspect after a juvenile male who was shot Sunday morning has since died. Police were called to the 1600 block of Newton Avenue North just before 2 a.m. on a report of a shooting.
A tip back in April led investigators to a big drug bust in the Twin Cities on Sunday, which will take a lot of marijuana off the streets. According to Richfield Police, officers arrested 31-year-old Eric Latroy Dubose. During a search of his New Hope apartment, police seized more than 15 pounds of marijuana, $48,000 in cash and a loaded .45 caliber handgun.
A gunfight between two men on the city's north side ended Friday afternoon with police chasing the suspects on foot and shooting one of them.
A man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the beating death of his girlfriend, an Arizona State University student from Minnesota. Maricopa County prosecutors say 23-year-old Luis Soltero was given a 25-year prison term for second-degree murder Friday plus a consecutive five-year sentence for kidnapping.
A Cass County teen has been charged with felony wildlife arson after intentionally setting a blaze Wednesday that damaged over 70 acres and endangered several homes. Anthony James Wittner, 17, told investigators he started a forest fire because mosquitoes were bothering him, according to the Cass County Attorney's Office.
Trial has been set for a Minnesota man accused of running an illegal gambling operation in North Dakota. Gerald Greenfield pleaded not guilty in federal court Thursday to three counts, including conducting sports betting business and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The family of Amy Pagnac talked Thursday about what officers took when they searched the family home last week. The Maple Grove 13-year-old went missing in Osseo in 1989. But just last week investigators did a thorough search of her childhood home.
Federal courts will hear a new lawsuit alleging that a southern Minnesota boarding school knew a former teacher was sexually abusing male students but took no action.
A 51-year-old man is behind bars after police say he fired shots at his 40-year-old neighbor and the man's 11-year-old son while they were riding in a tractor.
A 23-year-old social studies teacher has been charged with trying to solicit a minor for sex after being arrested Tuesday in an undercover investigation.
A Farmington man has been charged after three young children he was taking care of were found playing alone in a hotel parking lot, covered in mud, according to the Dakota County Attorney's Office. Benjamin Edward Barsness, 31, faces gross misdemeanor charges of child neglect and child endangerment in connection to the May 24, 2014 incident.
A St. Paul high school has issued a warning to its students after an attempted kidnapping in the area earlier this week. Police said the incident happened Tuesday afternoon at Marshall Avenue and Pascal Street, near Central High School.
Authorities suspect a wildfire in Cass County that caused an evacuation and a heavy firefighting response was intentionally set. The sheriff's department says ten homes were evacuated Wednesday afternoon when the fast-moving fire burned about 76 acres near Cass Lake.
Their story made national headlines. A Minnesota couple accused of taking more than $150,000 in welfare benefits while living in a lake home and aboard a $1 million yacht.
