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SHAKOPEE (AP) — A puppy-snatching in Shakopee was caught on video surveillance. The pet store owner says a man carried the $2,500 male puppy like "a football" and fled with...

BEMIDJI – The Bemidji Police Department plans to conduct alcohol compliance checks beginning in mid-March. The checks are used to assure local liquor establishments aren’t furnishing alcohol to underage buyers...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man accused of ambushing and stabbing two Minneapolis park police officers has been convicted of attempted murder. Prosecutors say 39-year-old Marsenior Johnson lured the officers to...

BAXTER - A 45-year-old Baxter man will be sentenced later this month after a Crow Wing County jury found himguilty on 35 tax related felony charges. The jury convicted Ronald...

DILWORTH – A man was arrested here this morning, accused of murdering his girlfriend’s 22-month-old daughter in Ada in August. Raul Perez, 24, was arrested at 211 6th St. N.W...

WALKER - A two-vehicle crash near here Monday night has one woman in a Fargo hospital and a man facing potential charges. According to the Cass County Sheriff's Office, emergency...

FARGO – Thieves broke into a Fargo business and stole $50,000 worth of copper wire over the weekend, police said. The theft at Fargo Electric Construction is believed to have...

VERGAS, Minn. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a case of possible horse neglect in western Minnesota. The Otter Tail County sheriff's office was called Sunday about two dead horses and...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — A Rochester minister who shot his granddaughter after mistaking her for an intruder has pleaded guilty to a felony charge. Sixty-one-year-old Stanley Warren Wilkinson was charged...

MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the stabbing death of a 16-year-old North St. Paul girl who was found dead in a Maplewood park. Maplewood Police Chief Dave Kvam...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a Minnesota woman's 15-year sentence for threatening to kill two law enforcement officers, saying it was appropriate because the woman's...

Advocates for victims of sexual abuse, and their legislative allies, are hopeful that a bill to be introduced next week will stop the clock for perpetrators and facilitators of the...

RAMSEY, Minn. (AP) — Anoka County sheriff's officials say a couple found dead in an apparent murder-suicide had received an eviction notice. The bodies of 67-year-old Caron Fine and 65-year-old...

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) — As police scoured mountain peaks for days, using everything from bloodhounds to high-tech helicopters, the revenge-seeking ex-cop they wanted was hiding among them, holed...