Crime, Law and Justice

Oak Park Heights prison officer dies on duty from 'medical emergency'
Officer Joseph Parise died Monday after helping a fellow officer who was assaulted by an inmate. Officials did not say immediately how Parise died. The prison is in lockdown.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Monday the boy's case will be handled in juvenile court. Because of his age, no other information will be public.
If Rosenstein is fired, here's what will happen
On Monday, news organizations were reporting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein might resign or be fired. What would happen if he did step down?
The night a Chinese billionaire was accused of rape in Minnesota
With the Chinese billionaire Richard Liu at her Minneapolis area apartment, a 21-year-old University of Minnesota student sent a WeChat message to a friend in the middle of the night. She wrote that Liu had forced her to have sex with him.
Kavanaugh, Ford will testify in open hearing Thursday
The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing Thursday for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, a woman who says he sexually assaulted her as a teenager, agreeing to a date and time after nearly a week of uncertainty over whether Ford would appear at all.
Authorities ID three who died in Minneapolis crash involving SUV that had been fleeing troopers
Authorities have identified the three people who died early Sunday when an SUV that had been fleeing state troopers crashed into their vehicle at a south Minneapolis intersection.
One year after the Las Vegas shooting, two survivors remember
Two survivors of the Las Vegas shooting: A young man, shot in the lung, hid under a dead body and survived. A police officer who had never before fired his gun on active duty, now trains others.