Crime, Law and Justice

A senior and junior from Braham Area High School died as a result of crash Saturday about seven miles west of Mora.
California gunman in veteran center killings was ex-patient
Three women were killed in California after a daylong standoff at a Veterans Home. The gunman, a former patient, had been kicked out of a treatment program at the facility.
A Minnesota state lawmaker is asking a judge to dismiss a defamation suit filed by another public official. St. Paul City Attorney Lyndsey Olson sued Rep. John Lesch, DFL-St. Paul, last month.
A gunman slipped into an employee going-away party at the largest veterans home in the United States and took at least three people hostage Friday, leading to a lockdown of the sprawling grounds in California, authorities and family members said.
ICE keeps Augsburg prof from Kenya in limbo
Immigration officials told the professor to come back next month.
'Pharma Bro' cries in court, apologizes for fraud, gets 7 years
Martin Shrkeli, the smirking "Pharma Bro" vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for defrauding investors in two failed hedge funds.
The lawsuit follows action the ACLU took in the case of a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter, who the group said was taken from her mother "screaming and crying" and placed in a Chicago facility.
Put down the phone: Texting-while-driving citations jump in Minnesota
Citations have doubled the past few years even as write-ups for speeding and seat belt use decline, state officials said Friday as they urged people to stay focused on the road.
A former middle school cafeteria worker who argued the sexually explicit photos and texts she sent to a student were constitutionally-protected free speech has now pleaded guilty to felony charges in Dakota County.