Twin Cities man sentenced to nearly 7 years in federal prison for automatic...
A Twin Cities man who told an FBI informant he was stockpiling weapons to use against police was sentenced to nearly seven years in federal prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to buying devices that...
View ArticleOakdale man gets probation for starting house fire that killed 5 of his dozen...
An Oakdale man has been given two years of probation for setting his home on fire while high on meth, killing five of his dozen cats that were inside. Joshua Lloyd Buhl, 43, was sentenced this week by...
View ArticleSouth St. Paul man remains in critical condition as police search for...
South St. Paul’s police chief said Thursday they have not identified the driver in Saturday night’s hit-and-run crash that critically injured a pedestrian along Concord Street. Luke Bollman, 41, of...
View ArticleOakdale man sentenced to 37 years in prison for Woodbury grad party shootout...
A judge handed down a 37-year prison sentence Friday to an Oakdale man for his part in a shootout that killed 14-year-old Demaris Hobbs-Ekdahl at a June 2021 graduation party in Woodbury. Following a...
View ArticleJudge convicts man of stabbing girlfriend to death, setting fire to her North...
A judge on Friday convicted a man of stabbing his girlfriend to death and then starting a fire in her North St. Paul apartment to try to conceal the killing. Melvin Bilbro (Courtesy of Ramsey County...
View ArticleWant to get hitched on Valentine’s Day? Ramsey County Courthouse will offer...
Love will be in the air at the downtown St. Paul courthouse on Valentine’s Day, when Ramsey County will join other counties and perform free weddings for the first time. Eight Ramsey County judges will...
View ArticleFalcon Heights considers resuming police contract with St. Anthony, nearly 8...
Falcon Heights officials are considering whether to rekindle a public safety contract with St. Anthony police, whose officer in 2016 shot and killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop in the...
View ArticleCottage Grove man pleads guilty in 2021 West St. Paul slaying that police say...
A Cottage Grove man pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree manslaughter for shooting to death Jayvon Andrew Malone, a Maplewood 20-year-old who authorities say was killed at a West St. Paul park as...
View ArticleBullet through West St. Paul apartment ceiling leads to child neglect charges...
A report of shots fired inside a West St. Paul apartment building last week led to police finding fentanyl pills on a woman’s kitchen floor and prosecutors charging her with child neglect, according to...
View ArticleDid St. Paul woman take her own life or was she killed? Murder trial underway.
Alexandra Pennig was a troubled woman who fought mental health and addiction issues and ultimately put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger in her downtown St. Paul apartment in December 2022,...
View Article‘JuVaughn’s life will never be the same,’ judge tells St. Paul rec center...
On Friday, JuVaughn Turner’s mother wanted pictures of the teen to speak for her family. In the first photo, which she submitted to the court, Turner is a typical 16-year-old who liked to hang out with...
View ArticleFalcon Heights advances exploration of return to St. Anthony policing contract
The city councils of Falcon Heights and St. Anthony have directed staff to set up opportunities for community feedback on a proposal for the St. Anthony Police Department to take over policing in...
View ArticleCharges: Tartan High School special education teacher had sex with student
A Tartan High School special education teacher admitted to police that she began a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old student about a month before he graduated last year, according to a criminal...
View ArticleAnoka sex offender accused of rape after release, later asked fellow inmate...
A convicted sex offender on supervised release is accused of raping a woman last fall in Anoka and then asking his fellow jail inmates to kill her with fentanyl-laced coffee. Kelly Eugene Jenkins, 33,...
View ArticleForest Lake ‘career offender’ conned motorsports businesses out of $232K,...
A Forest Lake man with an extensive criminal history is accused of duping a dozen local businesses out of more than $232,000 in motorsports and construction equipment over five months last year by...
View ArticleTwo more charged in Coon Rapids triple slaying
Two more men have been arrested and charged in last month’s killings of a woman, her son and husband after police say they posed as UPS delivery drivers and went into the family’s Coon Rapids home with...
View ArticleMan who killed friend in St. Paul gets 6-year prison term
A Maple Grove man was sentenced to six years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the shooting death of a 21-year-old at a St. Paul house last August. The brother of Jonathan...
View ArticleBoyfriend who said it was suicide found guilty of killing St. Paul woman in...
A jury on Friday found a Fergus Falls, Minn., man guilty of fatally shooting his girlfriend in her Lowertown St. Paul apartment — and that her death was not a suicide as he claimed. Matthew Phillip...
View Article2 police officers, 1 paramedic fatally shot in Burnsville domestic incident;...
Two Burnsville police officers and a city fire department paramedic were fatally shot during a Sunday morning domestic incident involving a heavily armed man who barricaded himself in a home full of...
View ArticleSlain Burnsville officers and firefighter mourned, remembered
A day after three Burnsville first responders were cut down in the line of duty, the shattered community looked for answers and sought solace Monday. Outside City Hall, a stream of mourners paused...
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