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BEMIDJI – A 24-year-old Pennington woman will be sentenced for abusing a young girl. Deanna Antonia Beaudreau on Wednesday entered an Alford plea before Beltrami County District Judge Shari Schluchter...

WALKER – A 21-year-old Walker man has been ordered to spend 18 years in prison for fatally stabbing a man here last spring. Sheldon James Smith received the sentence earlier...

PARK RAPIDS – A former minister in Cass Lake and Lake George was convicted Thursday after a jury found him guilty of six sex crimes involving a child. A Hubbard...

BEMIDJI – A 24-year-old Pennington woman will be sentenced for abusing a young girl. Deanna Antonia Beaudreau on Wednesday entered an Alford plea before Beltrami County District Judge Shari Schluchter...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. -- A Fargo doctor who examined a Hubbard County toddler in a case of suspected abuse said the 2½ -year-old had 26 separate injuries that were strongly...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Ramsey County judge has denied a request from prosecutors who wanted tougher charges against a woman accused of trying to suffocate her 5-month-old son...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A St. Paul man who pleaded guilty to helping coordinate an extensive drug-smuggling operation has been sentenced to 21 years in federal prison. Jesus Mendoza...

LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (AP) — The home of a Minnesota man held in the shooting deaths of two teenage cousins has been burglarized at least once before. Byron David Smith...

By Bryan Horwath, Forum Communications NEW TOWN, N.D. – With their community still in shock after a shooting that left a grandmother and three of her grandchildren dead Sunday, the...

By Stephen J. Lee, Forum Communications FARGO — U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson today sentenced the first of nine people who have pleaded guilty in a synthetic drug ring blamed...

By Amy Dalrymple, Forum Communications NEW TOWN, N.D. – The woman who was killed here Sunday was president of her church council, served on many community boards and cut fabric...

MOORHEAD – A scuffle in a church parking early Sunday morning led to a knife attack, police say. Shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday, police responded to reports of a fight...

AUSTIN, Minn. (AP) — Sheriff's investigators say their work to find those responsible for a shooting outside an events center near Austin that left five wounded, including two critically, has...

BEMIDJI – A Bemidji man has been sentenced for shooting at the Bemidji Pioneer office building in early 2011. Edward Michael Halvorson, 38, currently serving a 64-month prison sentence on...

BEMIDJI – A 21-year-old Walker man has been sentenced for felony harassment. William Joseph Bedeau was sentenced Monday for felony harassment, violating a restraining order when the victim is under...