Crime, Law and Justice

Goodhue County authorities announced Monday they have filed second-degree murder charges against a woman they say is the mother of two newborn babies found dead in the Mississippi River in 1999 and 2003.

Grand Forks police and federal agents seized video discs and other items from the home of North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator after he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges.

The mother of a man killed by Brooklyn Center police last year says an officer there threatened to arrest her for legally filming a traffic stop Wednesday night.

The judge overseeing the federal civil rights cases of four former Minneapolis police officers in the killing of George Floyd has accepted the terms of Derek Chauvin’s plea agreement and will sentence him to 20 to 25 years in prison.

Mayor Melvin Carter on Wednesday named Deputy Chief Jeremy Ellison, a longtime veteran of the force, to run the department while the city searches for a permanent chief to replace the retiring Todd Axtell.

The incident comes months after Chappelle faced controversy over his 2021 Netflix special “The Closer,” in which he makes jokes about transgender women.

Word that the Supreme Court may be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade provoked a range of responses Tuesday in Minnesota, where abortion remains legal — and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.

All suspected carjackers in Minnesota 18 and older will now face federal charges that carry long prison sentences.

Monday night's news of a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion, suggesting a majority of justices are poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, drew quick, sharp criticism from Democratic elected officials in Minnesota and a generally muted response from Republicans.

A St. Paul couple are charged with first-degree premeditated attempted murder in the shooting of a woman outside a supervised parenting center in Minneapolis.