Crime, Law and Justice

Minnesota’s 2020 Teacher of the Year Qorsho Hassan imagines the future of education -- how the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd shaped her vision for a new model of teaching and learning that centers student voice and leadership.

The move came after a state investigation into complaints from Ramsey County Public Health officials that inmates in need of emergency medical care were not getting it.

A Minneapolis police officer fatally shot Amir Locke last year seconds after a SWAT team entered a downtown apartment to serve a warrant. Locke was not suspected of any crime. No officers were charged. Locke family attorney Ben Crump announced the civil suit Friday.

Bloomington police say three adults were found dead in a parked pickup truck in the city on Wednesday night, in an apparent murder-suicide. Deaths included a father and son, and a male “business associate.”

Fernando Valdez-Alvarez, 19, of Minneapolis, admitted in court to shooting and killing 15-year-old Jahmari Rice and wounding another 17-year-old outside the South Education Center in Richfield on Feb. 1, 2022, prosecutors said Wednesday.

A defense attorney says a former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd is innocent of criminal wrongdoing and should be acquitted. But prosecutors argue Tou Thao “acted without courage and displayed no compassion” even though he could see Floyd’s life slowly ebbing away.

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to attend the funeral of Tyre Nichols, who died three days after he was beaten by Memphis police officers just minutes from his home, the White House said Tuesday.

A 27-year-old Oakdale woman is facing criminal vehicular homicide and hit-and-run charges after allegedly striking a brother and sister crossing a Bloomington street on Friday evening.

A Hennepin County judge on Monday sentenced a St. Paul man to 18 years of prison and supervised release for trying to kill his former partner outside a supervised parenting center last year. At the sentencing hearing for Timothy A. Amacher, 41, a prosecutor said he’d hoped for a lengthier prison term, but Minnesota law won’t allow it.

The investigation stems from payments Donald Trump made, allegedly to prevent accusations that he had had an extramarital affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels from becoming public.