Minnesota woman pleads guilty to role in fatal buggy crash
Investigators say Sarah Petersen tried to take the blame for the crash because her twin sister had been driving while high.
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Investigators say Sarah Petersen tried to take the blame for the crash because her twin sister had been driving while high.
A jury was seated Monday in the trial of the alleged ringleader of a scheme that federal prosecutors say exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to steal $250 million from a program meant to feed children.
Dramatic new details in the brazen beating of a high school athlete in the middle of a game. Newly-filed charges say the attackers blind-sided the victim on the bench with a tire iron and a knife. As Adam Duxter reports, one of the teen attackers was released from jail just days before he was caught and cuffed again.
A priest from Detroit faces a misdemeanor charge regarding alleged behavior last fall toward a 13-year-old girl.
A 35-year-old woman is accused of intentionally setting a downtown Minneapolis apartment on fire last August, killing two people, according to Hennepin County court documents.
The University of Minnesota neighborhood has had safety concerns arise the last few years.
Concerns have risen in recent years about safety in the U of M neighborhood.
Minneapolis police say four people were stabbed in a fight early Sunday morning.
The FBI says it arrested a 21-year-old Washington state woman in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont.
The Maryland State Attorney announced the charges late Thursday afternoon for last summer's crash.
Investigators are trying something they've never done before to solve the case of a Minnesota woman who went missing nearly 40 years ago. Ubah Ali reports on the message that went out to every single inmate in the Washington County Jail.
It was the largest single investigation in United State History - and now, it's all over. It was one of Donald Trump's first moves as president: Pardon more than 1,500 people charged or convicted in the Jan. 6 insurrection. As Adam Duxter reports, this includes 15 Minnesotans, more than half of whom were already convicted and sentenced.
A felon is heading back to prison for harming police while trying to outrun them. Dash-cam video shows two Maple Grove cops struggling with that suspect before he speeds away, knocking one to the ground and dragging the other.
With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison.
A car was taken in a strong-arm carjacking Friday. The car was then in a police pursuit overnight Saturday.
One gun owner heard voices telling her to kill the president. Another mused about shooting up a school. But neither of those crimes happened, thanks in part to Minnesota's new red flag law. A WCCO Investigation found that 140 Extreme Risk Protection Orders were filed last year. That's when authorities temporarily take away someone's guns. Senior investigative reporter Jennifer Mayerle digs into how the law is working, and why confiscating weapons might not be enough.
A Minnesota man has been indicted and charged with federal hate crime for assaulting a Black man outside of a bar.
A search warrant reveals new details about a domestic violence call that turned into a hazmat response in Brooklyn Park last week.
The shooting came after officers were trying to stop his car because the driver was showing signs of impairment.
SWAT teams swarmed a St. Paul shop to save a man chained and beaten in the basement. Charges say that the victim owed a debt to a Mexican drug cartel. You may be surprised to learn it's not the only recent cartel-connected crime in the Twin Cities. Frankie McLister talked to a former CIA agent and the loved ones of one Minnesota woman caught up in the cartel's world.
The St. Paul Police Chief says his department is shaken after a simple stop turned into chaos after an officer found himself under fire. As Ubah Ali reports, the chief says that the suspect has a history of violence.
One of the ex-police officers convicted in George Floyd's killing will walk out of federal prison Wednesday.
The only person to ever face charges in the deadly ambush of three first responders now faces prison time. Burnsville police officers Matthew Ruge, Paul Elmstrand, and firefighter-paramedic Adam Finseth all died during a standoff last winter.
Edina police are investigating an assault on a juvenile male that took place at YMCA in December.
The ATF recommends evaluating the resale of firearms.
