More than two dozen public schools and nine Jewish institutions in Minnesota received fake shooting and bombing threats Wednesday in an apparent effort to draw large law enforcement responses.
A 25-year-old Minneapolis man has been charged with second-degree murder after a fatal shooting near Lake Street last week. The victim is being remembered as “a beloved member of the transgender community.”
A grand jury has found probable cause for previous charges against Derrick John Thompson for possession of a firearm as a felon, possession of fentanyl, and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
The city of Ely — the gateway to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area — has taken a creative approach to a statewide and national issue, by offering a $3,800 canoe package to help recruit and retain badly needed police officers.
Attorney General Merrick Garland says in announcing a war crimes case against four Russians accused of torturing an American during the invasion of Ukraine that U.S. authorities “will never stop working to bring those responsible to justice.”
The Bemidji school district moved to an e-learning day on Wednesday after what officials say was a “credible threat” made against a school in the district.
Nearly one year before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was stabbed 22 times by a fellow inmate at a federal prison in Arizona, the Associated Press published its latest update in its years-long investigation into the Federal Bureau of Prisons. AP reporter Michael Sisak, one of the journalists who conducted the investigation, spoke to All Things Considered host Tom Crann on Monday.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said Monday that there is no evidence of law enforcement wrongdoing in the death of a young Black man found dead in Crystal Lake after a police chase last year.
The condition of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin is improving after he was stabbed 22 times last month while in a federal prison in Arizona.
Under the deal, Purdue agreed it owed $8 billion in criminal and civil fines. That deal that is at the center of Monday's case because it releases the Sacklers from personal liability.