Crime, Law and Justice

The politics of bump stocks, one year after Las Vegas shootings
Most Americans first learned about "bump stocks" — which speed up the firing rate of semi-automatic rifles — in the aftermath of the Las Vegas massacre. A year later, they're still mostly legal.
Mental health struggles surface for Vikings' Everson Griffen
A police report made public Tuesday says the defensive star was ordered to stay away from the team pending a mental health evaluation and that the Vikings security chief asked authorities to check on Griffen's wife and children.
Judge OKs $210M deal to pay Twin Cities clergy sex abuse victims
A federal judge on Tuesday backed a bankruptcy reorganization plan for the Twin Cities archdiocese that includes $210 million to compensate more than 400 victims of clergy sex abuse.
In jail calls, Heinrich said he 'never touched anybody' after Wetterling
Transcripts of several phone calls between Danny and David Heinrich are among the 41,787 pages of documents from the Wetterling investigative file Stearns County released last week. In one call Danny Heinrich said he "was a monster back then, but I stopped."