The Rochester Police Department said it needs help identifying vandals who spray-painted State Rep. Kim Hicks’ home with racist graffiti earlier this month. The police department shared suspect photos on Facebook, which Hicks confirmed were captured on her security camera.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations in Minnesota, or CAIR, is calling on the FBI to investigate what some Minneapolis mosque leaders are calling a hate crime.
The Metropolitan Council said that Metro Transit Police Chief Ernest Morales III went on leave on Friday. Metro Transit has not provided further information on what prompted that move.
Some states have passed minimum distance rules for when first responders warn the public to stay back. Journalism organizations say it’s really about discouraging bystander video.
Judd Hoff was charged with receiving stolen property and abetting felony theft. His wife, Wendy Hoff was charged with felony theft after police found hundreds of stolen signs on the couple’s property in Alexandria.
As a gunman shot and killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, terrified pupils and staff members made frantic calls to 911. One student told an operator there were “a lot” of bodies as she begged for help, saying, “Please, I don’t want to die.”
A California man with a history of political violence was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in prison for repeatedly attacking police with flagpoles and other makeshift weapons during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
A Hennepin County jury Wednesday found a Minneapolis man guilty of second-degree murder in a fatal shooting near Lake Street last November. Damarean Bible, 25, faces sentencing on Sept. 11.
As the number of abortions nationwide grows, pregnant people in states with restrictions and bans are getting pills from out-of-state providers. Some say these providers are breaking the law.