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Boy, 17, Shot Dead In Minneapolis Identified
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Hennepin County Medical Examiner has released the identity of the 17-year-old who was shot and killed over the weekend. Police were called to the 1600 block of Newton Avenue...
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Popular Minn. Parade Band’s Nearly $50K Float Stolen
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A popular parade band may have to go silent this summer because its float has gone missing. The custom float that takes the Zuhrah Shrine Steel Drum Band to parades around the...
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Cops: Phone Thieves Target Teens, Get Up To $200 Per Phone
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Every day in Minneapolis a teenager is the victim of a crime that police say has gotten out of control. City police have taken hundreds of robbery reports from kids this year...
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Attorney: Girl Charged In Stabbing Is Mentally Ill
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A 12-year-old girl accused of plotting to kill a friend to curry favor with a fictional character she read stories about online shows signs of mental illness and should be in a...
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Semi Illegally Passes School Bus, Almost Hits Student
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Minnesota State Patrol is asking for the public’s help in finding a semi-truck driver who almost hit a sixth grader while illegally passing a school bus on Friday. Lt. Eric...
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FBI: Minnesota Residents May Have Gone To Syria
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The FBI in Minneapolis said Tuesday it is seeking the public’s help in tracking down anyone who may have left Minnesota to fight in Syria, and it is reaching out to the state’s large...
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FBI: Child ID App Could Be A Lifesaver
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The FBI wants parents to download an app that could be a lifesaver. The FBI’s Child ID App allows parents to send photos of their child, along with details such as height and...
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Police Still Looking For Thieves Targeting Veterans’ Graves
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Police in southeastern Minnesota are looking into a rash of robberies in which thieves target cemeteries, taking brass markers that show a deceased veteran’s military service....
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New Trial Sought For Man In ’80s Minneapolis Murders
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A drifter’s conviction of murdering three American Indian women in Minneapolis in the 1980s should be thrown out because of newly discovered DNA evidence, the man’s attorneys argued...
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Who Is Slenderman?
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls who have been charged with stabbing and nearly killing a friend told investigators that they planned the slaying to curry favor with a fictional...
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Charges: Man Threatens Neighbors With Gun Over Parking Space
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – An 85-year old West St. Paul man is accused of threatening to shoot his neighbors over an ongoing dispute about a parking space, according to charges filed Wednesday in Dakota...
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Syrian Rebels Recruiting Twin Cities Somali Youth
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — In the three years that government and rebel forces have been battling in Syria, more than 100,000 people have been killed. Many of the deceased are innocent civilians who are cut...
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Chiropractor Accused Of Raping Patient Allowed To Practice During Investigation
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Little Canada chiropractor accused of sexually assaulting a patient still has an active license to practice. That means right now he’s still allowed to see patients during the...
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Retired Archbishop Can’t Remember How He Handled Sex Abuse Cases
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Retired Twin Cities Archbishop Harry Flynn says he can’t remember how he handled clergy sex abuse cases during his 13-year tenure. “I don’t remember anyone complaining to me, to...
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Witnesses Say Apps Increase Stalkers’ Capabilities
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stalking victims face new threats in an era of smartphones and mobile apps and Congress should regulate them more closely, witnesses at a congressional hearing said Wednesday....
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Experts Say Sex Offender Should Be Freed
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit that claims the Minnesota Sex Offender Program is unconstitutional has ordered the state to show why one man should not be “immediately and...
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Officials Reviewing Claim That Billy Glaze Was Wrongfully Committed
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Hennepin County Attorney was reviewing new evidence Wednesday that could clear a man convicted of serial killings in the 1980s. The Innocence Project filed court papers...
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Byron Smith’s Attorney Files Appeal Documents
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The attorney of the Little Falls man convicted for murdering two teens on Thanksgiving Day 2012 said he filed appeal documents Wednesday in the state Supreme Court. Steve...
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Mankato Police Step Up Patrol In Troubled Downtown
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The college year came to a violent end near one Minnesota campus. Two young people suffered critical injuries within one week in downtown Mankato in May. One left a former...
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Good Question: Who Is Slenderman?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Their case is perhaps not unlike the horror stories that inspired it. Two 12-year-old girls are accused of stabbing a friend nearly 20 times in the woods near Milwaukee – all to...
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