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A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for having inappropriate sexual contact with a child under the age of 12. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota said Joseph Valerian Parshall was sentenced on Monday.
St. Paul police say half of the shoplifting in their city is due to organized crime, but a first-of-its-kind unit is targeting those thieves. The department has formed an organized retail crime unit that will go after the people who steal household items.
One man is dead and another hurt after an early Tuesday morning shooting in Burnsville, and police are searching for the people responsible. The shooting took place at 2 a.m. on the 2100 block of East 117th Street at a town home complex, police said, but the victims were found in an SUV at the Eagan Super America gas station off Cliff Road.
Minnesota authorities and defense attorneys are welcoming the federal government's plans to ease up on drug sentences. They're pointing out that Minnesota already has one of the country's lowest incarceration rates because it's been practicing what U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has been proposing for some 30 years.
The 20-year-old man shot to death in a St. Paul Park apartment early Saturday morning has been identified, according to police. Regino Manuel Nitti was found dead by authorities Saturday morning at 1:45 p.m. They believe he was accidentally shot by an acquaintance. St. Paul Park Police say other guns were found in the apartment, which is located on the 1100 block of Fifth Street.
National Guard Staff Sgt. Brandon Horst will be laid to rest on Tuesday at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, but there will be no grieving widow at the funeral. Sgt. Horst's wife will sit in jail, now charged with plotting his murder.
A 21-year-old St. Paul man has been sentenced to prison in the February deaths of two of his cousins. On Monday, Teng Vang was specifically sentenced to 5 years in prison. In June, Vang pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal vehicular.
The Bemidji police chief says no charges will be issued after someone posted a Facebook ad for marijuana. Someone had offered, "WEED FOR SALE!!!" last week on a page called "Bemidji Area Online Sale."
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed the manslaughter conviction of a man accused of pulling down a deer stand while another man was in it. An appeals panel ruled 2-1 Monday the trial court should have acquitted Kevin McCormick.
Police in Roseville have identified the victim following a car chase that ended with the driver drowning in a lake in Arden Hills over the weekend. The incident started at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday on Cleveland Avenue in Roseville. The driver crashed three miles away.
A Cokato man has been sentenced for drunkenly causing a car crash that killed three generations of a family last year in Kandiyohi County. Paul Wickenhauser will serve 67 months in prison – about 5 1/2 years – after pleading guilty to three counts of criminal vehicular homicide.
School is not back in session yet, but custodians had to be called in over the weekend to clean up a school in Edina after being hit by vandals. Police said sometime overnight on Sunday, someone spray painted messages on the side of South View Middle School in Edina.
Police in the north metro are investigating a chase that ended with the suspect's body being pulled from a lake. It started around 9:30 p.m. Saturday night when a Roseville police officer noticed a problem with the car's tail light.
Rush City's prison is a level-four security facility that houses some of the most dangerous criminals in Minnesota. It's the last place you'd expect an organization to turn to in order to save a life Rush City's prison houses inmates like Richard Patterson and Clayton Keister - two men who've been convicted of murder. "I've been in prison for, you know, close to seven years now," Patterson said. "I got 10 more years left to do and I feel this is a way of me giving back."
St. Paul Police say they've arrested two people in connection with the shooting death of a Minnesota National Guard sergeant earlier this week. According to the St. Paul Police Department's Twitter account, 24-year-old Heather Schwarz, of St. Paul, and 25-year-old Aaron Allen, of South St. Paul, have been arrested, and authorities aren't seeking any other suspects. Charges are expected on Monday.
