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Senate Hearings Begin On Target Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Congress began a series of hearings Monday before a Senate banking subcommittee into the massive data breach at Target and other retailers. Lawmakers grilled the Secret Service...
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MN AG Sues Company For Defrauding Seniors
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is going after a company she says tricked hundreds of people into believing they were protecting their families. The lawsuit filed Monday...
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Charges: Man Abused Child, 2, Over Toileting Accident
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 23-year-old man is accused of abusing a 2-year-old child with scorching hot water in a bath tub after a toilet training accident last week in West St. Paul, according to charges...
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Woman Accused Of Threatening Hospital Rampage
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 34-year-old Hastings woman is accused of threatening to shoot up a Burnsville hospital, leading to a lockdown late last week, according to charges filed Monday in Dakota County...
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Arbitrator: St. Paul Officer Should Be Reinstated
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A St. Paul police officer did not use excessive force and should be reinstated after he was fired following his role in a videotaped arrest, according to an arbitrator’s ruling....
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Police: Bicyclist Hit, Killed In South Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – When Zach Nyhus heard a loud bang down on Franklin Avenue Monday night, he peered out his apartment and saw a disturbing sight. “I looked out of the window and, straight down from...
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54 Die From Heroin In Hennepin County Last Year
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office says 54 people died as a result of heroin overdoses in the county last year. The number is a record high for the county — and a sharp increase...
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Minn. Councilwoman Pleads Guilty To Stealing Money From Dying Dad
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Maple Grove city councilwoman has pleaded guilty to a charge accusing her of stealing thousands of dollars from her dying father. On Wednesday morning, 63-year-old Leann Sargent...
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Minnesota Man Wins New Trial In Sex Abuse Case
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for a Minnesota man who had been convicted of sexual abuse of a girl in Knoxville in 2012. The court says testimony by the...
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High Court Affirms Most Verdicts In Dewey’s Death
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court has affirmed all but one of the guilty verdicts against the man who admitted to shooting Mahnomen County Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Dewey. Dewey died in...
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‘Singing’ Billy Bass Wards Off Fishy Burglar
ROCHESTER, Minn. (WCCO) — Seems anywhere you turn these days somebody is trying to sell you a security system. But for a Rochester bait store owner, it was an unlikely — some might even say “obnoxious”...
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Bicyclist Killed On Franklin Ave. Wore Helmet, Lights, Just Moved To Mpls.
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – An experienced bicyclist who recently moved to Minneapolis was run over and killed Monday night by an alleged drunk driver. Marcus Nalls was biking home from his new job at the...
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Charges: South St. Paul Man Threatened Officers On Twitter
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 20-year-old South St. Paul man is accused of threatening to kill police and at least one officer with the Minnesota State Patrol on social media, according to charges filed...
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Teen Gets 10 Years For Fatal Punch
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (WCCO) – After 17 months of waiting, a family finally learned how much time the man who killed their son will be in prison. A Stearns County judge sentenced 18-year-old Jesse Smithers...
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Man Pleads Guilty To Kidnapping Estranged Wife
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A northern Minnesota man has pleaded guilty in federal court to kidnapping his estranged wife. Forty-two-year-old Timothy Glen Caskey of Virginia admitted that on July 14, 2011, he...
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No Suspects Or Arrests In Wis. Baby Disappearance
TOWN OF BELOIT, Wis. (AP) — Federal and state law enforcement agencies joined local authorities Thursday in searching for a 5-day-old baby who disappeared from a bassinette at a home in southern...
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Hackers May Have Used Pa. Company To Hit Target
NEW YORK (AP) — The hackers who stole millions of customers’ credit and debit card numbers from Target may have used a Pittsburgh-area heating and refrigeration business as the back door to get in. If...
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Alleged Drunk Driver Charged With Killing Bicyclist
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – An alleged drunk driver who struck and killed a bicyclist Monday night was charged Friday with criminal vehicular homicide. According to the Hennepin County Attorney’s office, John...
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State Patrol: 2 Dead After Officer-Involved Shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — What began as a routine morning commute Friday down Highway 212 to Chanhassen quickly turned into a bizarre and dangerous scene. Christine Smith was heading east from Glencoe when...
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2 Killed In Friday’s Eden Prairie Standoff ID’d
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The identities of the two suspects killed in Friday morning’s police chase-turned deadly standoff have been released. According to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office,...
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