8+ hour, 36+ min ago   (1037+ words) With the St. Paul Police Department about 50 officers below its budgeted strength, the department says it has continued to have to backfill with overtime. The department’s authorized strength is 616 officers this year, but for at least five years it has…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (733+ words) The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office said Friday that two St. Paul police officers were legally justified when they shot and wounded a suspected car thief who pointed a handgun at them on an Interstate 94 on-ramp in downtown St. Paul. Elliot…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (708+ words) A Hugo woman who left a series of threatening voicemails for Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth was sentenced Thursday to three years of supervised probation. Rachel Marie Welsch, 43, pleaded guilty in Washington County District Court to one felony count of…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (235+ words) A man died after a Wednesday crash in St. Paul following a pursuit by a sheriff’s deputy, the Ramsey County sheriff said Thursday. The incident began when witnesses saw someone breaking into vehicles in the Hill-Murray School parking lot in…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1162+ words) Dylan James Severson was killed in December 2024 by a drunk driver who crashed head on into his car in St. Paul. A few weeks before, the 18-year-old graduate of Cochrane-Fountain City High School in western Wisconsin was accepted into nearby…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (445+ words) A man who needed surgery after he was assaulted at the Minnesota State Fair has a long road to recovery, his fiancée said Wednesday. Sammy Kimbrough, 45, was walking with two friends when he accidentally bumped into another person, “which is…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (451+ words) An Eagan massage therapist has admitted in court to sexually assaulting four clients and faces 10 years in prison under a resolution he reached with the prosecution. Johnny Le, 34, of Richfield, pleaded guilty Tuesday in the four cases filed against him…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (600+ words) A St. Paul man has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for fatally shooting a Rice Street bar patron during an apparent robbery. Surveillance video showed that Marlon Deion Dickey shot 42-year-old Oscar Lee Covington in the abdomen…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (189+ words) Two men were shot early Sunday morning in Dinkytown near the University of Minnesota’s East Bank campus. The shooting, which happened around 2:40 a.m. Sunday, prompted the University of Minnesota Department of Public Safety to send out two alerts warning students…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (134+ words) A man was critically injured after he was shot in the abdomen while driving on Interstate 94 eastbound in Minneapolis on Sunday afternoon, police said. Minneapolis police officers responded to a report of a shooting around 4:40 p.m. Sunday and located the victim…...