Hopkins, Burnsville communities remember family killed in apparent murder-suicide

The Hopkins and Burnsville communities on Monday night mourned the deaths of two women and a 7-year-old girl who was the daughter of one woman and the granddaughter of the other. Police believe Nathan Brown killed his wife, their daughter and his mother. He was found with a self-inflicted gunshot.

A Blaine City Council member and candidate for Minnesota House says her vehicle was covered with obscene photos over the weekend. Police say it was a juvenile matter. Leslie Larson says her vehicle was vandalized when a group of four people put photographs of a hand holding up a middle finger all over her vehicle. The incident was caught on camera.

Voting opens Tuesday for residents on St. Paul’s west side to pick a new name for Cesar Chavez Street. The busy street is being renamed after the famed activist was accused of sexual assault. One parameter for the new name was that it could not honor a specific person.

A former assistant Anoka County attorney appeared in Hennepin County court Monday for allegedly running an online sex trafficking ring. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says Andrea Sampson was an assistant attorney in the civil and family law divisions while she and three others trafficked women as young as 19. Prosecutors say properties Sampson owned were used to photograph victims for online sexual advertisements.

Community workshops on a proposed new data center in Minneapolis' North Loop area are happening daily through Thursday at the Itasca Event Gallery. Legacy Investing, a data center company, is on track to buy the Minnesota Star Tribune's old printing factory in the North Loop and hopes to turn it into a 20 megawatt data center.

More than 200 gather in Hopkins to remember family killed in apparent murder-suicide

Former Anoka County assistant attorney charged with running sex trafficking ring