Authorities Seeking Public's Help Finding Missing Woman
Authorities in northern Minnesota are asking the public's help in finding a 79-year-old woman who went missing Tuesday after going out to pick blueberries.
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Authorities in northern Minnesota are asking the public's help in finding a 79-year-old woman who went missing Tuesday after going out to pick blueberries.
A jury convicted a Minnesota man Tuesday for the murders of a father and son inside a Wisconsin photography store.
Authorities in Willmar are investigating a homicide after a 79-year-old woman was found dead in her home Monday night. The Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office was called to the 3000 block of Highway 12 East at about 5:09 p.m.
A man stole four puppies from a kennel in Prior Lake, but likely did not realize that his crime was caught on camera.
A 51-year-old Minneapolis man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court for robbing multiple Twin Cities banks. Phillip Leo Nietz was sentenced to 151 months in prison on one count of bank robbery, as well as three other bank robberies Nietz admitted to committing in his plea agreement.
The Cokato man accused of drunkenly causing a car crash that killed three generations of a family last year pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Kandiyohi County. County Attorney Jenna Fischer said Paul Wickenhauser will serve 67 months in prison – about 5 1/2 years – after pleading guilty to three counts of criminal vehicular homicide.
Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau said she's outraged after seeing the behavior of two of the city's officers during an incident in Green Bay, Wis. Both have since been placed on administrative leave. An active internal affairs investigation began Friday into the off-duty officers, Brian Thole and Shawn Powell, after an incident that occurred last month.
Police say that a woman bit another woman's breast during a fight in north Minneapolis last week. The police report says the fight happened in the vicinity of the intersection of Lyndale and Lowry Avenues North last Thursday afternoon.
Authorities have released the identity of the St. Paul officer who shot and injured a domestic assault suspect Sunday night. The officer has been identified as Mark Farrington, a 12-year-veteran of the St. Paul Police force.
Authorities in Crow Wing County say they do not plan to file charges against the officer involved in a high-speed chase that ended with the suspect being shot. The July 4 incident started after officers responded to a domestic assault call.
A Wisconsin appeals court has rejected an appeal of a Minnesota man who was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide in the 2001 killing of a man left for dead along a western Wisconsin logging road.
A federal judge has sentenced a witness who refused to testify in a sex trafficking case to 15 months in prison. Abdullahi Farah, a Somali refugee and former gang member, repeatedly refused to testify, saying he is afraid for himself and for his family.
Costly-to-fight wildfires that are intentionally set in Minnesota will soon carry tougher penalties under a new law. The enhanced arson law was passed in May and goes live on Thursday. It builds off an existing wildfire arson law.
The owner of a northern Minnesota breeding operation where more than 130 dogs were seized earlier this month is charged with misdemeanor animal neglect. The Cass County prosecutor's office said Monday it filed a nine-count criminal complaint against 60-year-old Deborah Rowell. The complaint says when officers executed a search warrant at Rowell's kennel in Pine River on July 16, they found improper enclosures, inadequate ventilation, improper dog houses and inadequate shade and water.
A man died Monday evening from a gunshot wound in south Minneapolis, according to authorities. Minneapolis Police were dispatched at 6:30 p.m. after gunfire was reported near the 4300 block of Fifth Avenue South. Once on the scene, police found an adult male on 43rd Street East between South Fourth and Fifth avenues with a serious gunshot wound
