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ANOKA, Minn. (AP) — An Anoka mother is sentenced to four years in prison in the death of her 3-year-old son. Prosecutors say Elizabeth Moorman failed to call police when...

MINNEAPOLIS – A 23-year-old Redby man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to a charge of harboring a fugitive. Andrew Oakgrove entered the plea to to one count of harboring...

LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A Little Falls teenager has been charged with burglarizing the home of a man in the months before he allegedly shot and killed two other...

INTERNATIONAL FALLS – The man who pleaded guilty to unintentional second-degree murder for killing his wife with a 17-foot-long, 700-pound totem pole was sentenced Monday to 15 years – the...

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Officers stormed an underground bunker in Alabama where a 5-year-old boy had been held hostage for nearly a week, rescuing the child and leaving the...

ST. PAUL – A federal jury convicted a 35-year-old Red Lake this week for assault with a dangerous weapon and domestic assault. A trial for Brian Gordon Graves concluded Thursday...

STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — State corrections officials are investigating an incident that left four workers injured at the Stillwater prison. Minnesota Department of Corrections spokesman John Schadl says one contract...

BEMIDJI ­– Seven days after being arraigned on two felony sex charges, a former Bemidji teacher was found dead at his rural Cass Lake home. John Thorn Wangberg, 58, was...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge in Minnesota has sentenced a Colorado man to more than four years in prison for scamming investors out of $7 million. Thirty-seven-year-old Evan Flaxman,...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Fewer Minnesotans died as the result of domestic violence in 2012. An annual report from the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women says 18 people were killed in...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (AP) — A Detroit Lakes man is charged after a weekend shooting that killed one man and wounded another. Thirty-eight-year-old Ronald Quiceno is charged in Becker County...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. – A 38-year-old man was arrested Saturday afternoon after two men were shot, one fatally, earlier that day. Ronald Matthew Quiceno was arrested without incident Saturday at...

RED WING, Minn. - A 26-year-old Goodhue County man is accused of attempting to kill his wife's co-worker with a hammer early Monday morning. Jonathan Lee Closner entered his wife’s...