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Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in the 2024 shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City as part of a strategy that he hopes might spare him the death penalty....
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A former Assistant Anoka County Attorney is facing 26 charges related to her alleged role in a sex trafficking operation in the Twin Cities area. Andrea Leigh Sampson, 28, has been charged with 13 counts of promoting prostitution of an individual and 13 counts of receiving profit...
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Thirteen victims are listed in a district court complaint, which accuses the former prosecutor of promoting and profiting from prostitution.
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Multiple media reports state that two American Airlines planes that shared the same flight number almost got into a crash over Phoenix, but some quick thinking from air traffic control managed to prevent a catastrophe....
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The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has named the officer involved in a shooting on Monday that left a man injured.
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The driver being charged was 14 years old at the time of the head-on collision, officials said.
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A Hopkins home daycare operator has pleaded guilty to assaulting a 4-month-old boy in 2022. Megan Appert, 41, was charged back in 2022 with first-degree assault causing great bodily harm and third-degree assault with a victim under the age of four years old, with the third-degree...
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Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon is speaking out about what he calls “outrageous” misconduct at Minneapolis polling sites after a conservative political commenter tried to impersonate Minnesota voters. In the video, Cam Higby, a member of the “Justice League,” is dressed ...
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MISSAUKEE COUNTY, MICH. (AP) — Five people were killed and a suspect is dead Friday after a series of killings that took place at two homes and a wooded area in Michigan, according to law enforcement. Michigan State Police were responding to reports of a shooting at a home in Mis...
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A law firm is investigating the circumstances surrounding a teenager who was seriously hurt in a fall from a Minneapolis grain elevator during a social media stunt....
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is sharing new information about a Red Lake police officer who shot and killed a suspect on Thursday. According to the FBI, on Thursday morning, Red Lake Police were called to reports that a person was firing a gun in a residential area o...
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An investigation is underway in northern lower Michigan after six people were found dead in three locations.
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The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) has released the identity of the officer and suspect involved in a use-of-force incident outside Regions Hospital on Monday. According to the BCA, the officer is Jacob Pederson, a St. Paul police officer with 12 years of law enforcement e...
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5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has confirmed that Mark Cook, a teacher and coach at Osseo Area Schools, has been reinstated following a months-long leave for undisclosed reasons. Cook is a social studies teacher at Maple Grove Senior High School as listed on the staff directory, and a head co...
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The FDA has issued its highest-risk status to an egg recall that was initiated in July due to a salmonella contamination risk.
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A federal judge’s Friday ruling has ended the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis in the United States, lifting a previous order that paused President Donald Trump’s administration from doing so. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said in her ruling that African Commu...
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The government’s surveillance extended far beyond the indictment of a group that’s come to be known as the Minnesota 15
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Nearly 10 months after a crash that killed two teenagers and hurt three others, one of the involved teens is now facing criminal charges. The Chisago County Attorney’s Office announced Friday that it has filed a juvenile petition in connection with the fatal Oct. 25 crash. The La...
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The debate over Flock license plate cameras is heating up across Minnesota as some cities end their contracts while others stand by the technology.
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Minnesota has put billions into homelessness and housing stability, and state leaders say the spending has lowered the number of people without housing and prevented families from experiencing homelessness. Still, they say the need exceeds available dollars. After the City of St....
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Good Friday evening! We’re heading into the weekend with more clouds, muggy air, and a few hit-or-miss shower chances across Minnesota. Tonight stays mostly cloudy and muggy, with a few showers possible. Temperatures fall into the upper 60s. Saturday is still not looking like a w...
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Police arrested two men they believe to be responsible for a string of burglaries and vehicle thefts in Roseville and the surrounding metro area.
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The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office has formally identified those who died earlier this week in the Hopkins and Burnsville tragedy. As previously reported, 41-year-old Kristen Brown and 7-year-old Evie Brown are believed to have been killed by 41-year-old Nathan Brown b...
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Mendota Heights says its new speed camera is already slowing drivers on a road with a long history of speeding complaints. Mendota Heights became the first city in Minnesota to install a speed camera, targeting Delaware Avenue. After more than a month of monitoring, police said t...
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Rising incidents of vandalism and law enforcement misuse connected to license plate readers are sparking alarm over how widespread the Flock cameras have become nationwide....
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Minneapolis police are investigating after a man damaged 34 vehicles across the city on Thursday. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, officers responded around 2 a.m. to the 700 block of First Street North, when a man in a white sedan was using a flashlight to break i...
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The Hennepin County Medical Examiner has identified both the victims and alleged perpetrator involved in a murder-suicide at a Hopkins daycare center.
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The city of Chaska is taking steps to redevelop the former Oak Ridge Hotel and Conference Center as police keep responding to trespassing at the vacant site. The former Oak Ridge Conference Center and Hotel in Chaska closed in 2020 and has been vacant for about six years. City of...
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Two Minneapolis men are facing charges in connection with several dozen home burglaries in Roseville and the surrounding area this month. Court documents show Aaron Matthew Million, 22, and Laurence John Charette, 26, were charged earlier this week with two counts of first-degree...
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A major methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy linked to the Sinaloa Cartel of Mexico has led to a prison sentence of more than two decades for a man who authorities determined helped run the operation in Minnesota....
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Lake Superior Zoo Voting The post Lake Superior Zoo Voting first appeared on KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News .
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A Minneapolis man was sentenced to probation for helping a Burnsville woman hide a dead body in 2024. His prison term was stayed. According to court records, 50-year-old Christopher Hawkins was sentenced for aiding Josephine Powers to hide a man’s body at his Minneapolis home. On...
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A Hennepin County judge found a Brooklyn Park man not guilty by reason of mental illness in a deadly 2021 hit-and-run killing and a separate 2020 carjacking case. RELATED: Man charged with intentional second-degree murder in deadly Brooklyn Park crash According to a court order s...
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President Donald Trump was secretly transferred from Air Force One to an alternate aircraft following the NATO summit in Turkey in July after U.S. officials received intelligence regarding security threats targeting him....
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The Minnesota attorney general called the Department of Homeland Security's actions "appalling and alarming" after it was found that undercover agents infiltrated activist, labor union and church meetings during Operation Metro Surge....
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A lifeguard is recovering after a great white shark pulled him underwater near a popular family beach destination in Maine over the weekend, local officials said....
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A U.S. Army veteran has been found guilty of defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of over $170,000 in caregiver benefit payments that he was not entitled to receive....
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Luigi Mangione’s recent plea agreement is a familiar outcome in the American justice system, where the vast majority of criminal cases never make it to trial. The reasoning why most criminal cases end with a plea deal could be quite complex in some cases, but rather simple in oth...
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Cloud and Sun Mix this Friday afternoon in the Twin Cities with an Isolated T-Storm possible otherwise Increasing Humidity with dew points in the mid to upper 60s and Breezy Southeast Winds at 10 to 20 mph. Partly to Mostly Cloudy Tonight with Spotty T-Storms possible at times al...
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Maine and Massachusetts have become the latest states impacted by a growing nationwide Cyclospora outbreak that has now sickened more than 9,000 people, according to the Food and Drug Administration....
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The candidates offer different approaches to public safety as they compete for voters.
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Two Navajo Code Talkers remain. Their unbreakable WWII code helped secure U.S. victories in the Pacific and save countless lives.
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The family of murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who lived in Maple Grove, thanked prosecutors for holding the accused shooter responsible.
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A Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper’s offices in 2023....
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Flags are flying at half-staff across the state to honor firefighter Leslie R. Washington, who died while responding to the northern Minnesota wildfires....
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The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that scammers have stolen more than $1.2 million from seniors since the beginning of August. Authorities said scammers have recently targeted seniors across the county with convincing stories and complicated tactics. The sheriff...
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The St. Louis County Sheriff's Office is investigating after an "arrow-type object" from a firework impaled a man's foot, pinning him to a kayak while he was fishing....
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Kevin Garnett’s will enter the history books as a Minnesota Timberwolves legend later this season when the team retires number 21. Garnett is set to become the second Timberwolves player in franchise history to have their number retired, joining Malik Sealy. The ceremony will hap...
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Mayor Kaohly Her’s budget reduces the number of sergeant and commander posts, and the chief has raised the specter of demotions to meet cut targets.
business
The Magnum Ice Cream Company is voluntarily recalling all lots of certain Reese's and Almond Joy ice cream bars after an internal review found inaccurate nutritional information on the products' cartons....
