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Crime, Law and Justice

Motive elusive after van driver kills 10 on Toronto sidewalk

Motive elusive after van driver kills 10 on Toronto sidewalk

Police in Canada's biggest city are piecing together witness accounts and surveillance video trying to determine why a driver plowed a rented van along a crowded sidewalk, killing 10 people and injuring 15 in what many said seemed a deliberate attack.
by Associated Press

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Listen to all of MPR News' Peabody-winning 74 Seconds podcast

Listen to all of MPR News' Peabody-winning 74 Seconds podcast

In July 2016, officer Jeronimo Yanez shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop in a Twin Cities suburb. The world watched the aftermath, live on Facebook. Yanez was charged in Castile's death. Jurors found him not guilty on all charges June 16, 2017. MPR News covered the trial on the air, online and in the 74 Seconds podcast.
by MPR News Staff

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Van attack kills 10 and injures 15 in Toronto; driver in custody

Van attack kills 10 and injures 15 in Toronto; driver in custody

A van apparently jumped onto a sidewalk Monday at a busy intersection in Toronto and struck down pedestrians before the vehicle was found and the driver taken into custody, Canadian police said.
by The Associated Press

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Waffle House shooter's guns were seized but then returned

Waffle House shooter's guns were seized but then returned

Travis Reinking's behavior resulted in the revocation of his Illinois firearms license, and his weapons were turned over to his father. But his father simply returned them to his son when he decided to move out of state.
by The Associated Press

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Maplewood woman found guilty of murder in fentanyl overdose death

Maplewood woman found guilty of murder in fentanyl overdose death

A Sherburne County judge on Monday found Beverly Burrell of Maplewood guilty of murder in the 2016 fentanyl overdose death of a St. Cloud, Minn., man. She faces murder charges in the deaths of two other men.
by Brandt Williams

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Minn. court sides with climate change activists in pipeline case

Minn. court sides with climate change activists in pipeline case

Four people who broke into Enbridge Energy property in Minnesota in an effort to stop oil from flowing can argue they needed to shut the pipeline down, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Tennessee Waffle House suspect still being sought; residents on alert

Tennessee Waffle House suspect still being sought; residents on alert

An intensive manhunt continued Monday for a half-naked man suspected in the slayings of four people at a Waffle House restaurant. Police in Nashville, Tennessee warned people nearby to be wary, while authorities shared reports about previous efforts to contain the gun-loving man with paranoid delusions.
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