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Gun safety advocates returned to the capitol in-person on Wednesday for the first time since the pandemic began two years ago to urge the Minnesota Legislature to expand background checks for all gun sales and approve "red flag" laws.
A 26-year-old Minneapolis man faces charges accusing him of ramming multiple police squad vehicles with a stolen vehicle in St. Louis Park Sunday.
Kendall Hampton told investigators he left his gun on the windowsill and fell asleep before the shooting, but doesn't know how the child was actually injured, a criminal complaint states.
Officers reported to the 300 block of Eichenwald Street at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday after a report of shots fired.
Police in West St. Paul say a Target store is closed after a woman depredated the retail building.
St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell, who has been with the department since 1989, is retiring from the force in June. He opened up about where things stand and what brought him to this point and one of the biggest challenges the next chief will have to face.
"I feel like taking this location away will take away a part of history, like it never happened, and I think that people need to know what happened on this street corner," Katie Wright said.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says Mahnomen County Deputy Dakota Czerny shot 20-year-old Shequoya Deanne Basswood early Sunday morning in the Village of Naytahwaush.
According to MPD, the child was with a family member who is not a parent when he was wounded. Police received "limited information" about how he was shot.
A 15-year-old boy is in custody and facing charges that allege he fatally stabbed a 19-year-old family member in Duluth last week.
A 34-year-old Erhard man has been charged in connection to over 150 catalytic converter thefts in Otter Tail County over the past year.
focus first and foremost on hiring the heart, the heart of the guardian. A person who wants to become a police officer has to show me as the chief that they have the heart of a guardian, first and foremost ... and not the mentality of wanting to be a warrior all the time," Chief Axtell said.
A Twin Cities man was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for a violent armed robbery last spring that left a store clerk dead.
Charges will not be filed against a south Minneapolis woman and her son who were both involved in the fatal shooting of a suspected home intruder last month.
Minneapolis police are investigating two carjackings that occurred near the University of Minnesota campus Sunday evening.
