Twin Cities

Harvard study calls on Minneapolis to create new model for safety and wellness services
The Public Health and Safety Committee of the Minneapolis City Council is looking at a new report Wednesday afternoon. It’s a blueprint to help the city transform public safety.
Ex-Minneapolis cop gets 9 months for killing driver in high-speed crash
Then-officer Brian Cummings was chasing a stolen Kia along Lyndale Avenue North at speeds near 100 miles per hour in July 2021 when he crashed into Leneal Frazier's Jeep. Cummings had an “inordinate need for speed” one prosecutor said Wednesday.
Man gets 37 1/2 years for killing girl caught in Minneapolis gunfire
Trinity Ottoson-Smith, 9, was at a friend’s birthday party in May 2021 when prosecutors said Dpree Shareef Robinson fired a gun from the alley at three people on the house’s back porch, hitting and killing the girl. Robinson was sentenced Tuesday.
MPD chief pushes back against claims he knew of video showing incident
The video shows an incident in 2020 where officer Tyler Timberlake, who worked for the Fairfax County Police Department in Virginia, used a taser and then pressed his knees into the back and neck of a Black man, La Monta Gladney. The incident happened 11 days after George Floyd's murder.
Rental dispute between north Minneapolis charter school and church results in school eviction
Legacy of Dr. Josie R. Johnson Montessori School, or JJ Legacy School, had been housed in a school building owned by Our Lady of Victory Church and received an eviction notice about two weeks ago.