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Thursday,
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office charged three people with riot and weapons offenses in connection with a downtown drive-by shooting over the weekend.
Wednesday,
No felony charges will be filed against the driver of the car that plunged into a retention pond in St. Louis Park last fall, killing two young children.
Friday,
Colin and Andrea Chisholm claimed they were destitute but had hundreds of thousands of dollars and a yacht.
Details must be worked out, but the airline stowaway boy could return home soon, a judge has ruled.
Yia Her, who led police on a high-speed chase through downtown Minneapolis before colliding with a car, pleaded guilty
Tuesday,
Ronald Jackson, one of the two men who stuffed a Verizon Wireless employee into the trunk of a car, pleaded guilty to kidnapping.
Dalal Bayle Idd and Kamal Elyas Maqadin were charged in the robbery and beating of a man in the locker room of an Eden Prairie Life Time Fitness.
A jury convicted Kemen Lavatos Taylor, II on nine counts, including first-degree murder, in the shooting death of Rayjon Gomez. Taylor was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Fed up with the gun violence, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman entered into a collaboration with local playwright Syl Jones, and Mixed Blood theater artistic director Jack Reuler to bring an original play into area schools.