Crime, Law and Justice

Minneapolis crash leaves 3 injured, kills pregnant woman
A woman and her unborn child were killed Thursday night, along with three suffering from injuries, after a vehicle headed the wrong way down a one-way street in Minneapolis at high speed.
No prison for officer in fatal citizens academy exercise
A former Florida police officer, who accidentally shot and killed a former Minnesota woman during a citizens academy exercise, will serve no prison time.
Sheriff's officials say the death of a northeastern Minnesota woman who had been missing for nearly two weeks appears to be a homicide.
 Lawsuit seeks to clear Minneapolis sidewalks of e-scooters
Noah McCourt, an advocate for people with disabilities, claims scooter companies and the city of Minneapolis are violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
MN Supreme Court: St. Paul still owes trash haulers no matter Nov. 5 vote
St. Paul still has a binding contract with city trash haulers even if voters reject the system, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. A “no” vote may shift some $27 million in garbage bills onto property taxes.
Innocence Lost: Rumors, alarms got nowhere
Children’s Theatre’s defenders have said management was in the dark about what was being done to young people decades ago. But some parents raised alarms at the time.
A jury in Wisconsin has awarded $450,000 to the father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting after he filed a defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorist writers who claimed the massacre never happened.
Aitkin County investigators find body of missing woman
Authorities in Aitkin county say they’ve found the body of an Outing woman who went missing Thursday, Oct. 3.