Sheriff David Hutchinson ran on a platform that promoted transparency. But his office has yet to release the names of the officers involved in a deadly shooting last Saturday.
The TV and film star is the first parent to be sentenced in connection with the years-long, multimillion-dollar scheme. The case has resurfaced questions about college access, race and privilege.
Under a new program, first-time offenders can resolve some minor crimes through talking it out in a restorative circle, instead of going to court, paying fines or spending time in jail.
Even as St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter III and his father were decrying the gun violence that left three men dead in nine hours in the capital city this week, police still had not located a handgun stolen from the elder Carter's car late last month, police and court records show.
There’s been an explosion of interest in officer-wellness programs in Minnesota and across the country, including in one suburban Twin Cities police department.
Singer R. Kelly was a no-show for an initial court appearance in a Minnesota case in which he is accused of offering a 17-year-old girl $200 to take off her clothes and dance in 2001.
As an Alaska Native woman, Susie thrives amid sub-zero winters in her village near the Arctic Circle. But Susie is afraid to return to Nome. The man who raped her, she says, is still there. Rape survivors and their supporters said the city’s police department has often failed to investigate sexual assaults.
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