Man Charged With Waving BB Gun In Road Rage Incident
HASTINGS, Minn. (WCCO) – A 27-year-old West St. Paul, Minn. man faces two felony counts stemming from a road rage incident earlier this month. According to the complaint, Joshua Thomas Tipcke is...
View Article2 Burglars Arrested After Pocket-Dialing Police At Scene
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Two men have been charged with third-degree burglary after they inadvertently alerted police to the scene of the crime when one of their phones pocket-dialed 911. According to the...
View ArticleMinn. Senate Passes Heroin Antidote Bill
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The state Senate passed a bill Tuesday allowing first responders to administer a heroin antidote, called Narcan, in the case of an overdose, and immunity for people who call 911....
View ArticleWarrant Issued After Man Allegedly Punched Toddler, Stabbed Man
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A warrant has been issued after a man allegedly punched a 2-year-old child in the face and attacked another man with a knife in Jordan, Minn., according to police. The Jordan...
View ArticleCunningham Returns To Wolves After 2nd Arrest
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dante Cunningham returned to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Tuesday night’s game against San Antonio, just over 24 hours after being released from jail for his second arrest in three...
View ArticleBodies Of Man, Woman Found In Carver Co. Home
WACONIA, Minn. (AP) — The Carver County sheriff’s office says the bodies of a man and a woman have been found in a home in Waconia Township. Sheriff Jim Olson says no suspects are being sought, and...
View ArticleBody Found In Rural Minn. ID’ed As Iowa Woman
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota medical examiner has identified the body of a missing Iowa woman found in a rural area near Minneapolis over the weekend. The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office...
View ArticlePolice: Suspect Assaults Child, Stabs Man In Jordan
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 29-year-old man was taken into custody Wednesday morning in connection with the stabbing of another man and the alleged assault of a 2-year-old child, police said. The Jordan...
View ArticleWoman, 24, Charged In 40-Mile High-Speed Chase
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 24-year-old woman has been charged in connection to the 40-mile high-speed police chase that began in Minneapolis and ended near Jordan, Minn. Monday, the Hennepin County...
View ArticleTeen Sentenced In Beating Charged With Assaulting Correctional Officer
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 17-year-old boy who was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for his role in the brutal beating of a St. Paul man has now been charged with assaulting a corrections officer....
View ArticleTeen Sentenced For Shooting Death Of West St. Paul Man
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A St. Paul teen was sentenced Wednesday to more than 23 years in prison for the shooting death of a West St. Paul man in January of 2013, according to the Dakota County Attorney’s...
View ArticleTeen Gets Life In Prison For Killing Friend’s Grandmother
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Willmar teenager who pleaded guilty to killing his friend’s grandmother has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Brok Junkermeier, 19, admitted to choking and then...
View ArticlePolice: St. Cloud Man Suspected In 2 Robberies Arrested
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Authorities said a man suspected of at least two robberies in the St. Cloud area was arrested Wednesday afternoon. Waite Park Police and local FBI agents executed a search warrant...
View ArticlePlea Deal For Ex-ELCA Synod Bookkeeper
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) – Prosecutors have reached a plea deal with a former bookkeeper accused of embezzling $700,000 from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America synod in northwestern Minnesota. The...
View ArticleEx-Babbitt Fire Chief Sentenced For Setting Fires
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A former fire chief from northeastern Minnesota has been sentenced for setting fires in Superior National Forest. U.S. District Judge John Tunheim Thursday sentenced 30-year-old...
View ArticleArbitrator: Mankato University Wrong To Fire Coach
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An arbitrator has found that Minnesota State University, Mankato, had no grounds to fire head football coach Todd Hoffner last May and has ordered that the university immediately...
View ArticleFBI, Brooklyn Park Police Search For Bank Robber
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The FBI and Brooklyn Park Police are looking for a man who robbed a U.S. Bank by gunpoint Thursday afternoon. Police say a man with a black handgun walked into the bank located on...
View ArticleReward Increased For Info On Foley Man’s Killer
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Authorities have increased the reward for information leading to the suspect who fatally shot a Foley man in Benton County. On March 25, the body of Jamie Wylie, 31, was found on...
View ArticleWaconia Township Murder-Suicide Couple ID’d
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Carver County Sheriff’s office has identified the man and woman who were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in Waconia Township Tuesday morning. Authorities believe...
View ArticlePolice: Two Found Shot Dead In Car In Mpls.
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A man and a woman are dead, officials say, following a Friday night shooting in south Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Police Department says the shooting happened around 9:30 p.m. on...
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