Fmr. Mpls. Cop Sentenced To Prison For Andover Bar Punch
ANOKA COUNTY, Minn. (WCCO) – Former Minneapolis Police Sgt. David Clifford was sentenced Thursday in Anoka County court to nearly 2 1/2 years in prison for punching Brian Vander Lee at an Andover bar...
View ArticlePolice Investigating ‘MacGyver Bombs’ In Montevideo
MONTEVIDEO, Minn. (WCCO) — Police in a western Minnesota town want to know who is responsible for setting off a series of chemical bombs. Over the past two days, Montevideo police have found eight of...
View Article1 Year After Ft. Snelling Grave Robbery, Family Still Seeking Answers
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — It’s been a year since someone used the cover of night to walk into the Ft. Snelling National Cemetery and desecrate a grave, which belonged to a World War 2 veteran laid to rest...
View ArticleRochester Man Gets 17 Years For Possessing, Trying To Sell Meth
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 45-year-old Rochester man was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison Thursday for possessing meth with the intent to sell it, the Department of Justice said. Christopher Lee...
View ArticleMan In Wheelchair Hit By Car, Killed In Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Police say a man in a wheelchair was fatally struck by a car in Minneapolis Thursday. The car stopped after hitting the man, and the driver stayed at the scene. The incident...
View ArticlePolice: St. Paul Shooting Leaves Man, 18, Dead
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – An 18-year-old man died at Regions Hospital Thursday night after being shot in St. Paul, police say. The St. Paul Watch Commander said the shooting happened just after 9:51 p.m....
View ArticlePolice: Church Hit By Arsonists In North Mpls. Spree
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A church piano was set aflame in an apparent arson spree in North Minneapolis overnight, according to police. At least nine fires were set in the rash within a half hour just after...
View ArticleSt. Paul Police Working Leads In Deadly Shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – St. Paul police are working on leads in a shooting in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood that left a man dead Thursday night. Police responded to a fight Thursday near the intersection...
View ArticleWorship Still Continues At N. Mpls Church After Arson Claims Piano
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Music will still be played at a north Minneapolis church despite losing its most important instrument to arson. The piano inside Community Covenant Church was the first thing to...
View ArticleFmr. Shattuck-St. Mary’s Teacher Pleads Guilty To Sexually Abusing Boys
RICE COUNTY, Minn. (WCCO) – The former Shattuck-St. Mary’s teacher charged with seven counts of sexually abusing six students changed his plea to guilty on Friday, according to the Rice County...
View ArticleStockton Man Charged With Conspiring To Sell Meth
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 27-year-old Stockton man has been charged with conspiring to deal more than 500 grams of meth. Gabriel Orion Lowther was charged with one count of conspiracy as his indictment...
View ArticleOfficial: 3 Charged In Minnehaha Park Stabbing; 1 Suspect Still At Large
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – City officials are asking the public’s help finding a suspect in connection to a stabbing Thursday in Minnehaha Regional Park that left a 21-year-old man in the hospital with...
View ArticleSt. Paul Man Charged For Kidnapping, Robbing Couple
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A St. Paul man is charged in the kidnapping of a couple from a grocery store parking lot. Police say the man pictured in surveillance video is 42-year-old Jason Armstrong. They say...
View ArticleWoman Dies In Mpls. Shooting, Another Woman Seriously Injured
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A woman who was gravely injured in a north Minneapolis shooting early Saturday morning has passed away. Just after 2 a.m., two women were driving at the corner of Washington Avenue...
View ArticleMan Dies After Being Shot In Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A man is dead after suffering a gunshot wound overnight, according to police. Authorities say officers responded to a 911 call of a shooting in the 3400 block of Fremont Avenue...
View ArticleOfficials ID Man Hit, Killed While In Wheelchair
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities have released the name of man who was struck and killed by at least one vehicle as he tried to cross a dark highway in a wheelchair. The Hennepin County Medical...
View ArticleRally For Trayvon Martin Planned For Mpls. Monday
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A rally is planned for downtown Minneapolis to demand justice for Trayvon Martin, according to event organizers. The rally will take place Monday at 6 p.m. on the Hennepin County...
View ArticleWis. Man To Be Sentenced For Killing 3 Daughters
Live Stream: Schaffhausen Sentencing HUDSON, Wis. (WCCO) – The man who killed his three daughters in their River Falls, Wis. home will hear his fate on Monday. A sentencing hearing for Aaron...
View ArticleRed Lake Woman Arrested, Charged With Murder
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 25-year-old Red Lake woman was arrested Sunday after being charged murder in Minneapolis Federal Court in the death of Bryan James Lussier. Alison Ann Brown has been charged with...
View ArticleCharges: 2 Men Steal Money, Meat From Burnsville Restaurant
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Two men are accused of breaking into a Burnsville restaurant to steal money and meat last week, according to charges filed Monday in Dakota County Court. Tyler Cole Stanford and...
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