Crime and Public Safety

Federal prosecutors are asking a court to reconsider the release of now-former Minnesota Senator Justin Eichorn after they say he tried to prevent authorities from examining a laptop.

Across northeast and southeast Minneapolis, five robberies at gunpoint took place within 15 minutes early Sunday morning. 

Houston rapper Sauce Walka was injured and another man was killed in a shooting in Downtown Memphis on Saturday, TMZ reports.

Former U.S. Attorney Jessica Aber, 43, was described by DOJ colleagues as “irreplaceable as a human being."

A Mora woman has been charged after allegedly causing a head-on crash that killed a 4-year-old boy in Chisago County. 

Disney leaders said a fire broke out backstage at EPCOT's France Pavilion on Saturday afternoon. Authorities said no one was injured in the fire, and it has now been extinguished.

Jorge Arbaiza was shot and killed at a Houston McDonald's as his wife and grandkids were reportedly waiting in the car.

While former GOP lawmaker Justin Eichorn is the most high-profile arrest, criminal charges have been filed against eight other men who are accused of attempting to solicit a minor for commercial sex after being arrested during a sting operation in Bloomington. 

Police in New Mexico said gunfire erupted during an unsanctioned car show at a park Friday night, killing three people and hurting 15 others.

Stephanie Dowells was strangled during an conjugal visit with her husband David Brinson, who was convicted of killing four men in 1993. Brinson has not been charged with his wife's murder.

A Minneapolis man is charged in an alleged shoplifting scheme that adds up to more than $25,000 from all over Minnesota during a scheme that investigators say goes back months.

The founder and leader of Minneapolis charter school Best Academy has been relieved of his duties after multiple lawsuits accused two teachers of sexually abusing students.

Some Minnesotans are saying their same-day driver’s licenses and ID cards have been flagged as counterfeit at bars and in airports.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office says it will no longer rely on the work or testimony of a digital forensic expert in pending cases after questions were raised about Mark Lanterman’s education and employment background.

Minneapolis police say violent crime in north Minneapolis is at the lowest it's been in a decade.

Investigators now say rapper Yella Beezy was behind the ambush-style murder of fellow rapper Mo3 in the middle of the day on I-35 back in 2020.

Authorities say a 4-year-old boy died Thursday, six days after a head-on crash involving seven victims in Nessel Township, which is just north of Cambridge.

A driver was sentenced on Thursday for the deadly July 2023 hit-and-run in Forest Lake that claimed the life of 17-year-old Darisha Bailey Vath.