Twin Cities
The Hennepin County Attorney's Office Thursday filed charges against two men in two separate Minneapolis cases, including killings from last weekend and a case from the 1990s that was broken with the help of a napkin.
The Minneapolis man arrested last year on charges he beat, raped and shackled his daughters pleaded guilty Wednesday. He could face up to 30 years in prison.
Police say an online DNA testing website helped investigators identify the suspected killer of Jeanne Ann Childs.
The measure aims to keep families involved in child protection cases together when possible.
Kenneth Lilly didn't enter a plea in court Thursday and is out of custody on $500,000 bond.
Judges, county attorneys and other legal professionals say Minnesota's criminal justice system still fails people of color, 25 years after a landmark state Supreme Court report.
Some Minneapolis residents want the police department to put a moratorium on a certain type of traffic stop which they say unfairly targets people of color.
The woman said she was sexually assaulted by an instructor at the Minneapolis theater's school when she was a teen in the 1980s and was inspired to come forward by women who confronted entertainer Bill Cosby.
Prosecutors say George Mack Jr. chased his victim yelling, "I'm the boss."
The Children's Theatre Company is defending itself against charges it failed to protect a teenager of sexual assault by an employee. The trial wrapped up Wednesday.
The attorney for a group alleging Minnesota child protection laws violate parents' rights vows to appeal.
The policy is a response to a 2018 Star Tribune investigation which found that a majority of rape allegations are not forwarded by police to prosecutors. An advocate for sexual assault victims calls it a good first step.
The trial of a Minneapolis man accused of shackling and beating his disabled daughters will go forward without any further challenges to his mental competency.
Jake T. Patterson's alleged admission to police that he killed James and Denise Closs and abducted their 13-year-old daughter Jayme doesn't make it an open-and-shut case, legal observers say.
Jurors found Sid Strickland-Green, 28, guilty of unintentional murder in the 2018 death of Tyrone Williams, activist and father of four.
A judge sentenced David Edward Campbell to nearly five years for sexually assaulting a teen girl in 2017.
The rise in misconduct allegations coincides with the use of body cameras, the technology which city leaders promised would reduce complaints.
The man who is charged in the death of the 33-year-old activist and father of four last year is not the man on trial, said defense.
The first people of color ever elected to the Hennepin Board of Commissioners and the county's first openly gay sheriff all took the oath of office at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis.
Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said a study shows how the criminal justice system hurts the working poor.