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City’s 17th Homicide Prompts Anti-Violence Walk
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Wednesday night’s triple shooting led to the seventeenth homicide of the year in Minneapolis — and the tenth on the city’s north side. Last year, at this time in north...
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Head Of Minneapolis FBI Has Background In Counterterrorism
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) – The new head of the FBI office overseeing Minnesota and the Dakotas says battling terrorism and cybercrime will be among his top priorities. Chris Warrener took over as...
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Police Chief Links To Instructional Video On Shooting Sprees
CHASKA, Minn. (WCCO) – The Police Chief of Chaska has distributed a link to a graphic instructional video depicting a workplace shooting spree. The YouTube video, which credits indicate was funded by...
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Police: Boy, 2, Was Shot By Sibling Who Found Handgun
ST. PAUL (WCCO) – Police say a 2-year-old St. Paul boy was shot in the head after one of the boy’s siblings found a handgun in an unlocked cabinet. St. Paul Fire Medics were called around noon Thursday...
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Man, 82, Pleads Guilty To Murder Of Teacher
WILLMAR, Minn. (WCCO) — An 82-year-old man has pleaded guilty to charges of shooting a Minnesota teacher to death following an altercation. Delbert Huber, 81, of Burbank Township, was accused of...
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Police Searching For Female Princeton Bank Robber
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Police in Princeton, Minn., are searching for a woman who allegedly robbed a bank Friday morning and possibly rode off on a light blue men’s mountain bike. The robbery happened...
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Hennepin County Has Made 55 BWI Arrests This Year
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — So far this year, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has made 55 arrests for Boating While Intoxicated (BWI). “Intoxicated boat operators are a serious hazard and they jeopardize...
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Plymouth Police: Lock Your Cars, Deter Crime
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Plymouth police are asking residents to keep their garages and cars locked and to beware of suspicious activity after two adults and three juveniles were arrested Thursday morning...
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Cops: Help Us ID Mpls. Bank Robber
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who robbed a bank at gunpoint on Friday in Minneapolis. Minneapolis police say the Guaranty Bank at 1540 New Brighton...
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Police Arrest Man Accused In Hudson, Wis. Armed Robbery
HUDSON, Wis. (WCCO) — Hudson Police are investigating after the Freedom Value Center was robbed by a lone individual with a gun. Officers were dispatched to the scene at 5:24 a.m. Sunday to the Freedom...
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Gunman Kills 6 In Sikh Temple Attack; Later Slain
OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — An unidentified gunman killed six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday in a rampage that left terrified congregants hiding in closets and others texting...
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Chief: Officer Shot At Sikh Temple Still Critical
OAK CREEK, Wis. (WCCO/AP) — The police chief of a Wisconsin city where a gunman opened fire at a Sikh temple says the suspect shot the first officer on the scene eight to nine times with a handgun at...
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$5,000 Reward Offered In Woodbury Gun Theft Case
ST. PAUL (WCCO) — A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for stealing more than 30 handguns from the Gander Mountain in Woodbury....
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Arrested Minn. Man Says ‘I Should Be The Joker’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 56-year-old man was arrested after police say he made terroristic threats, referencing the Aurora, Colo. shootings, the Joker and how he can relate to shooting suspect James...
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Charges: Man Set Grass Fires In South St. Paul Park
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 24-year-old South St. Paul man is accused of intentionally setting grass fires in a South St. Paul park, according to charges filed Monday in Dakota County Court. Chad Steven...
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Food Shelf Employee Arrested, Charged With Embezzlement
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 55-year-old Minneapolis man was arrested Saturday and is accused of embezzling more than $155,000 from a Twin Cities nonprofit that delivers meals to home bound individuals....
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McCollum Says Shootings Show Need For Gun Control
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is calling the shootings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin an act of “mass murder by a madman with a gun in his hand.” And she says the killings show the...
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Hit-&-Run Motorcyclist To Be Freed
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) – A St. Paul motorcyclist now admits he hit a little boy, and then rode off. Twenty-five-year-old Ernest Jonas pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal vehicular operation. He...
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Good Question: Are We More Violent Than Before?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — From the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo. to Sunday’s temple attack outside Milwaukee, Wis. — two mass shootings in two weeks have raised a lot of Good Questions. Like, are...
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Former Marshall Bank Employee Admits Theft
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Belview woman has pleaded guilty to an embezzlement charge for stealing from customers of the Marshall bank where she worked. The U.S. attorney’s office says 47-year-old Barbara...
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