Why Minneapolis' police chief says he believes the streets have been safer this year
David Schuman sat down with Chief Brian O'Hara after Minneapolis went more than two months without a deadly shooting.
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David Schuman sat down with Chief Brian O'Hara after Minneapolis went more than two months without a deadly shooting.
The sound of gunshots alerted police to the 2000 block of West River Road North just after 7 p.m. Saturday.
West St. Paul police responded to a shooting just before 4 p.m. Saturday.
Law enforcement said the suspected shooter is the 20-year-old son of a Leon County sheriff's deputy and a student at FSU.
Violent crime in this metro town has dropped dramatically, and officials credit the shift from law enforcement to community.
Brooklyn Park is seeing a historic drop in crime, and officials are crediting community investments as the reason why. WCCO's John Lauritsen explains.
A man is in custody after surveillance video shows him writing something into a Tesla, police say. WCCO's David Schuman reports from the newsroom.
Federal agents say they could take a record amount of meth off Minnesota streets this year. Authorities seized more than 2,000 pounds of the deadly drug last year. As WCCO's Caroline Cummings reports, that only includes what the DEA is catching.
A man is now charged for threatening to "shoot up" the UnitedHealth campus in Minnetonka.
Two people sought after a homicide in Minnesota were arrested and taken into custody in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty on a charge of producing and attempting to produce child pornography.
A 50-year-old man is charged with abusing kids at King of Kings Lutheran Church and School.
A North Dakota judge has dismissed a charge against a man accused of impersonating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
Esme Murphy has the latest headlines and updates from WCCO.com.
A teacher at a Twin Cities day care center is accused of giving young children sleep-inducing gummies. That teacher is now on administrative leave while the investigation continues. Ubah Ali spoke with some concerned parents.
A video of a vehicle interrupting a soccer match at McMurray Field in St. Paul has gone viral.
A federal judge has rejected requests for new trials for two men convicted on human smuggling charges in the deaths of four members of a family from India who froze to death while trying to cross the Canadian border into Minnesota during a blizzard in 2022.
Facial recognition is becoming more common. So, how does the technology work? And where else is it being used?
That driver then reached speeds upwards of 100 miles per hour in Eagan, West St. Paul, St. Paul and Mendota Heights, before crashing into the State Patrol Trooper, according to officials.
More than 100 people have died in crashes involving distracted drivers in Minnesota over the past five years. Today, a month-long effort to crack down starts with extra enforcement. Jason Rantala shows us how tens of thousands of distracted drivers have already been caught on camera.
Officers responded to a shots fired call, shortly after a man showed up at a hospital with a gunshot wounds.
A southern Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2022 killing of his housemate.
Yolanda Saldívar was denied parole, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles confirmed in a statement posted to its webpage.
A local violence intervention group is on the brink of losing its contract with the city of Minneapolis.
The proposal comes less than a year after a WCCO investigation into tracing crime guns through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' National Tracing Center.
