Fire Chief Matthew Love said the new station will add firefighters and equipment to a growing part of St. Cloud and help improve response times throughout the city.
Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice Department said it got more complaints regarding similar instances by the deputies.
A Bemidji man is facing charges in connection with two shootings Wednesday — including one fatal — near two Minneapolis homeless encampments. Joshua Anthony Jones, 36, is also suspected in a second fatal shooting early the same day.
Two years after the first indictments were unsealed in the the huge Feeding Our Future case, three more people connected to the defunct nonprofit pleaded guilty this week for their roles in an alleged $250 million scheme to defraud government child nutrition programs.
Moorhead police are still seeking clues in the homicide of 18-year-old Tom Bearson a decade ago. The Sartell native was attending college in Fargo when he was killed.
The Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater in Bayport was put under lockdown as officials raced to assess how far the substances may have spread throughout the prison. Officials had not identified the substances or their source as of Thursday.
Husayn Braveheart, 21, who received a controversial plea deal last year for his role in a fatal carjacking, is now charged with fleeing police at 100 mph in a stolen vehicle.
The Minneapolis City Council on Thursday extended a contract for ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology, amid debate over whether or not it makes the city safer. It’s a smaller expansion than law enforcement requested; the council says this will give the city time to collect more data on the technology’s impacts.
“Often in epidemiological studies, advantage, say, wealth or socioeconomic status will often serve as a buffer against health problems. But we don’t find that here,” said coauthor Ryan Larson, an assistant professor of criminology at Hamline University.
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