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St. Paul man gets probation for shooting at ex-girlfriend’s Lakeville home,...
A St. Paul man was sentenced to five years of probation Monday for firing more than a dozen shots at his ex-girlfriend’s Lakeville home while she was inside with five others, including three children....
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A Minnesota man has been arrested and charged with soliciting girls through social media to make child pornography, and sexually assaulted at least one victim in Ramsey County, federal officials say....
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Minneapolis man sentenced for firing shots in Mall of America Nike store
A man who fired three shots during a fistfight inside the Mall of America’s Nike store last summer was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison. No one was injured in the Aug. 4 shooting, but the...
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Stillwater bar no longer facing criminal charges in George Musser death
A downtown Stillwater bar is no longer facing criminal charges of selling alcohol to 20-year-old George Musser prior to his death in December. In an amended complaint filed Wednesday in Washington...
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Permanent memorial for fallen officer Scott Patrick planned in West St. Paul
A curbside memorial marks the spot where Mendota Heights police officer Scott Patrick was murdered during a traffic stop just over the city’s border in West St. Paul nine years ago Sunday. People still...
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Maplewood man, 62, sentenced to probation for fatally stabbing 30-year-old...
A 62-year-old man was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of a 30-year-old man during a fight last year in Maplewood. Kevin Dwayne Peterson, of Maplewood,...
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Feds: Anoka man with violent anti-government views sentenced on meth, illegal...
An Anoka man who federal prosecutors say talked about joining a loosely organized anti-government extremist movement has been sentenced to nearly 6½ years in prison for illegal possession of a machine...
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Parents of missing Eagan man establish nonprofit to honor him, support...
The parents of a 23-year-old missing from Eagan since October announced they have established a nonprofit organization — Bryce’s Blessings — to honor him and support bereaved families coping with the...
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Teen pleads guilty in adult court to fatally shooting North St. Paul man...
A teen has pleaded guilty in adult court to aiding and abetting intentional murder in the shooting death of a 24-year-old man during a gun heist in North St. Paul this past spring. Abo Eshun Essilfie,...
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Charge: Woman used ‘sleight of hand’ distraction scheme to steal from...
Prosecutors allege a woman belonging to a traveling organized crime group pulled off “sleight of hand” distraction thefts at several retail stores throughout the metro area over the past five months....
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Minneapolis man gets probation for fleeing police after funeral for Mall of...
A Minneapolis man was sentenced to two years of probation Wednesday for fleeing police in a vehicle following the funeral for a St. Paul teen slain at the Mall of America in December. Jermaine...
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14 years later, Anoka man sentenced to prison for smothering infant daughter
An Anoka man has been sentenced to 11½ years in prison after admitting to smothering his infant daughter with a pillow in 2009 because she wouldn’t stop crying. Benjamin Alexander Russell, 38, pleaded...
View ArticleJury finds Minneapolis woman not guilty of intentionally hitting man with car...
A Ramsey County jury has acquitted a woman of charges that she intentionally hit the father of her children with her car in St. Paul, sending him to the hospital, during an argument in 2021. Tishyra...
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Charges: Men were playing with guns before fatal shooting on St. Paul’s North...
The brother of 21-year-old Jonathan Andrew Wade, who died of a gunshot to his head Wednesday in St. Paul, told police that Wade and another man had been playing with guns and the shooting was an...
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Man sentenced to probation for raping homeless woman at downtown St. Paul...
A Brooklyn Park man was sentenced to seven years of probation Monday for beating and raping a homeless woman at a downtown St. Paul parking ramp in 2017. Liban Mohammed Dahir, 30, was arrested and...
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Victim’s family recalls ‘beautiful soul’ as Truck Park shooter receives...
Beth Wiley stood in front of a Ramsey County judge on Tuesday to talk about her daughter, Marquisha “Kiki” Wiley, who was killed in a 2021 shootout between two men at the Seventh Street Truck Park bar...
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Teen who shot 12-year-old brother in St. Paul released from custody pending...
A 14-year-old boy who fatally shot his 12-year-old brother last weekend at a home in St. Paul’s North End neighborhood was released from custody Tuesday without charges after prosecutors say there was...
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Chaska man escaped Dakota County deputies by slipping out of Georgia airport...
A Minnesota felon who escaped the custody of Dakota County deputies last week in Georgia did so by slipping out of a rental car at the airport, authorities said Wednesday. Joseph Harrison Baynes, 35,...
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St. Paul man sentenced for rear-ending squad car while high, with marijuana...
After rear-ending a St. Paul police squad car, Joseph Laurence Forliti said his eyes were off the road and on a woman at the time of the July 2022 crash, which injured an officer. Meanwhile, a...
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One of three men charged in Maplewood drive-by shooting sentenced to 3 years...
One of three men charged in a drive-by shooting in Maplewood last summer was sentenced Friday to three years in prison. Davion Lazarick Gaines, 21, of Minneapolis, had pleaded guilty to second-degree...
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