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January 7, 2013
Jim Fetzer, UMD professor emeritus, thinks U.S. government was behind Newtown shooting
Jim Fetzer is a retired UMD professor who has made a name for himself nationally by arguing on behalf of conspiracy theories for everything from the JFK shooting to the death of Paul Wellstone.SEE ALSO:-- Michele Bachmann's favorite gun is the Bushmaster AR-15 used in Newtown [VIDEO] -- Andy Parrish ... More >>
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December 28, 2012
Dakota County Judge Michael Sovis allegedly ran into five parked cars, had BAL of 0.28
Longtime Dakota County Judge Michael Sovis was over three times the legal limit when he was arrested for driving drunk just around 8 p.m. Christmas Eve evening.SEE ALSO: Carlton County Attorney Thom Pertler's 0.234 DUI arrest: The dashboard footage [VIDEO] Officers responding to reports of a black L ... More >>
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December 21, 2012
Owner of Trail's End gun shop in Fridley reports "feeding frenzy" for military-style weapons
In a speech delivered two days after the Newtown school shooting, President Obama signaled his support for unspecified gun control measures, possibly including a crackdown on military-style semi-automatic rifles like the one used by Adam Lanza.The message that stronger gun control could be on the wa ... More >>
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December 19, 2012
Macalester President Rosenberg urges boycott of semi-automatic supporting politicians
In "A Pledge," Macalester President Brian Rosenberg urges citizens to work toward preventing another Newtown school shooting by refusing to give money to any political candidate who doesn't support the prohibition of semi-automatic rifles.SEE ALSO: Macalester President Brian Rosenberg appalled by Sa ... More >>
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December 14, 2012
Danny Bettcher, state DWI record holder, back in jail after getting busted drinking
It's not a record anybody wants to have, but it's Danny Bettcher's claim to fame. The 59-year-old resident of New York Mills has the most DWIs in Minnesota history -- 27.SEE ALSO:-- Kevin Tegtmeier arrested for 14th DUI, called "menace to society"-- Justin Clark had roughly 35 drinks in four hours b ... More >>
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December 12, 2012
Corey Thomas gets 34 years for strangling girlfriend, stuffing her in St. Paul crawl space
When Corey Thomas left Minnesota for Miami in the fall of 2011, he told his brother he was "tired of Minnesota women." The truth is he was really trying to put distance between himself and the spot where he'd stashed his girlfriend's murdered body.SEE ALSO: Stillwater man, upset about Xbox ban, beat ... More >>
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December 4, 2012
Local company IntoxBox aims to lower DUIs via breathalyzers in bars
There are usually two kinds of breathalyzers. One: questionably accurate pocket models that drunk people pass around as a party trick, and use to laugh about how drunk they are. Two: the calibrated ones police use in field sobriety tests -- likely accompanied by pleas about being fine to drive -- th ... More >>
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November 9, 2012
Shane Bauer: Out of Iran, investigating America's prison system
For two hellish years, the Iranian government held Shane Bauer prisoner on suspicion of being a spy. The worst part, he now says, was the four months he spent in a solitary cell. But since his release, Bauer has been surprised to discover even more troubling prison practices happening on American so ... More >>
News
November 7, 2012
Patent war brews big bucks
A new type of cold war has taken over the tech world
Blogs
October 24, 2012
Ronald Sims and Dee King allegedly used million-volt stun gun to rob Craigslist laptop seller
Early Sunday (exactly what time isn't clear), Jeff Hanson met Dee King in the Burger King parking lot at 695 East 7th Street in St. Paul. King and Hanson got in touch on Craigslist, where Hanson was looking to sell his laptop computer.SEE ALSO: Craigslist murders: A timeline King, a paroled bank rob ... More >>
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October 17, 2012
Anti-Israel protest at Timberwolves-Haifa game leads to assault allegation [VIDEO]
Last night, the Timberwolves hosted Maccabi Haifa B.C., a professional basketball team from Haifa, Israel, for an exhibition game at the Target Center.SEE ALSO: Andrew Zimmern and Sameh Wadi in political Twitter spatMinutes into the game, pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel (or perhaps more accurately, ... More >>
Arts
October 10, 2012
Appomattox loses sight of victory
The Guthrie's new show is a well-crafted failure
Blogs
October 9, 2012
Nicole Denzer of Circle Pines, 23, used her vagina to smuggle meth into jail
A drug-sniffing dog found a considerable amount of methamphetamine -- and a pipe -- in Nicole Denzer's vagina. Apparently she forgot to pack a lighter. METH IS A HELL OF A DRUG:-- Stillwater couple's pock-faced, cross-eyed mugshots double as anti-meth advertising [PHOTOS]-- Man allegedly threatened ... More >>
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September 17, 2012
Guerrilla Girls' "Vote No" billboard features Michele Bachmann [PHOTO]
SEE ALSO:-- Minnesota marriage amendment "looks like a toss up," says new poll of likely voters-- Michele Bachmann waves bag of gay-unfriendly Chick-fil-A [VIDEO]-- Michele Bachmann dumbstruck by 8-year-old's comment: 'My mommy's gay, but she doesn't need any fixing' With the help of a fundraiser he ... More >>
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August 29, 2012
Zellers calls for Gauthier's resignation while House GOP employs accused child porn possessor
SEE ALSO:-- Rory Koch was busted for child porn possession while running for Ramsey County commissioner-- House Speaker Kurt Zellers wants Vikings stadium bill to pass... but won't vote for it?-- Kurt Zellers apologizes for Bradlee Dean's opening "prayer" [VIDEO]In the wake of Rep. Kerry Gauthier, D ... More >>
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August 24, 2012
Thom Pertler, Carlton County Attorney, is back at work five weeks after 0.234 DUI arrest
SEE ALSO:-- Thom Pertler, Carlton County Attorney, reportedly blew a ridiculous 0.336-- Thom Pertler, Carlton County attorney, had nearly empty bottle of vodka in car-- Thom Pertler, Carlton County attorney, quits teaching gig after showing up to class drunkDespite two recent incidents where he made ... More >>
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August 16, 2012
Did Mr. Potato Head Robber strike in St. Louis Park yesterday? [PHOTOS]
SEE ALSO: Mr. Potato Head Robber: Mpls police ask for help finding disguise-wearing bank heister [PHOTOS]Around 10 a.m. yesterday morning, a U.S. Bank branch location in a St. Louis Park Byerly's was robbed. Brandishing a gun, a man approached a teller, demanded cash, and then fled on foot. No arres ... More >>
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August 14, 2012
Justin Clark of Iowa had a BAL of 0.627, nearly eight times the legal limit
SEE ALSO:-- Thom Pertler, Carlton County Attorney, reportedly blew a ridiculous 0.336-- Edina drunk driver refuses to put down burrito, offers bribe, blows .284, flips bird during mug-- Minnesota bar owner was driving with 0.34 blood alcohol level at time of fatal crashAcademic studies suggest that ... More >>
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August 10, 2012
Stephon Shannon indicted in Nizzel George murder
Stephon Shannon, the 17-year-old charged earlier this summer in the fatal shooting of a 5-year-old in north Minneapolis, has now been indicted by a grand jury for first-degree murder. Shannon was previously charged with aiding and abetting murder in the first degree, a felony that could carry a ma ... More >>
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August 6, 2012
Mr. Potato Head Robber: Mpls police ask for help finding disguise-wearing bank heister [PHOTOS]
SEE ALSO:-- Smash-and-grab Minnesota jewelry store robbers caught on tape [VIDEO]-- Chris Miller robs bank, says he's struggling with fact he's not a rich football player, apologizesTwo weeks after successfully robbing a TCF Bank inside a Cub Foods in Fridley, the well-dressed Mr. Potato Head robber ... More >>
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July 19, 2012
Thom Pertler, Carlton County Attorney, had nearly empty bottle of vodka in car
SEE ALSO:-- Thom Pertler, Carlton County Attorney, arrested for DUI months after drunk-teaching fiasco-- Thom Pertler, Carlton County Attorney, quits teaching gig after showing up to class drunkToday, details have emerged about the circumstances of Carlton County Attorney Thom Pertler's Tuesday afte ... More >>
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July 18, 2012
South Minneapolis murder victim was targeted
The 24-year-old man shot and killed in a south Minneapolis house this morning was likely targeted by an acquaintance, says City Councilmember Gary Schiff, who was on scene today. "There was a targeted killing," says Schiff. "The victims and suspect knew each other. It was not random. It was not gan ... More >>
Blogs
July 17, 2012
Kevin Tegtmeier arrested for 14th DUI, called "menace to society"
Kevin Tegtmeier, 60, just can't stop drinking and driving.Since 1987, Tegtmeier has been convicted of drunk driving in the counties of Anoka, Stevens, Clearwater, and Clay. And that's just in Minnesota. In North Dakota -- Tegtmeier now resides in West Fargo -- he's had at least five DUI arrests with ... More >>
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July 9, 2012
Amy Senser gets 41 months in prison
Amy Senser has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for killing Anousone Phanthavong in a hit-and-run last August. The decision was announced downtown today and reported by KARE 11 on Twitter. State guidelines called for a 41- to 57-month sentence; the defense attorney for Senser, Eric Nelson, wan ... More >>
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July 6, 2012
Derrick Catchings charged as adult in shooting of north Minneapolis teen
Derrick Deangelo Catchings, a 16-year-old from Brooklyn Park, will be tried as an adult in the murder of a teenager slain on his bike last summer in north Minneapolis, according to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office. Catchings has been in jail since last September on a separate case, and made hi ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2012
Shawn Sullivan won't be extradited to MN; U.K. judges rule sex offender program violates rights
In 1994, Eagan police questioned Shawn Sullivan, then 24 years old, about allegations that he had exposed himself in front of and groped two 11-year-old girls. But before prosecutors could file charges, Sullivan fled to Europe, never to return.Sullivan, who also allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl in ... More >>
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June 26, 2012
Native Mob federal case: Eight more plead to lesser charges
Eight more alleged Native Mob gang members named in a federal indictment have pleaded guilty to considerably lesser charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The feds unsealed the indictment in January, the product of a federally orchestrated, statewide crackdown on the violent Native Amer ... More >>
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June 21, 2012
Roger Doughten, 78, busted trying to rob Minneapolis bank by off-duty police officer
Roger Doughten is on the cusp of becoming an octogenarian, but he wasn't about to let his advanced age get in the way of an ill-fated bank robbery.At about 6:15 p.m. on June 18, Doughten, 78, strolled into the Wells Fargo on the 2600 block of East Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. Police say he handed ... More >>
Blogs
June 19, 2012
CeCe McDonald to serve out sentence in male prison
Chrishaun "CeCe" McDonald, the transgender woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter last month, will remain in a male prison for the duration of her sentence, despite safety concerns from her attorneys and supporters. Minnesota prisons do follow transgender placement guidelines that c ... More >>
Blogs
June 5, 2012
Vikings' Jerome Felton, arrested for DWI in McDonald's drive-thru, was lovin' it too much
After a night of drinking, Vikings fullback Jerome Felton wanted to take some McDonald's home with him. Regrettably, instead of a bag of greasy food, Felton was served two gross misdemeanors with a side of careless driving.Felton, 25 and the leading candidate to start as Adrian Peterson's primary bl ... More >>
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June 5, 2012
CeCe McDonald to be incarcerated in male prison -- at least for now [VIDEO]
Chrishaun "CeCe" McDonald, a transgender woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter last month, will be incarcerated in a male prison, at least for now. McDonald was arrested last summer for fatally stabbing Dean Alvin Schmitz outside the Schooner Tavern in South Minneapolis. The Hennep ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2012
Steve Horner's Las Vegas ladies' night crusade hits a brick wall
Steve Horner's latest battle in the war against Ladies' Night turned out to be a dead end. Earlier this month, Horner called brimming with optimism to report that the Nevada Equal Rights Commission was going to facilitate mediation between him and several Las Vegas casinos, which he had filed compl ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2012
Native Mob gang members plead to lesser charges in federal case
A few months ago, we reported on the federally orchestrated, statewide takedown of the Native Mob that shuttered Minnesota prisons for an entire day.Following the initial arrests, the feds unsealed an indictment naming 24 alleged members of the violent, Minnesota-born gang, with charges including ra ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2012
MN Supreme Court's dismissal of Marb Lights lawsuit represents victory for big tobacco
In 1998, then-Minnesota Attorney General "Skip" Humphrey and Philip Morris reached a $6.1 billion settlement after the state alleged that the tobacco company used deceptive marketing, advertising, and research to encourage people to smoke. The settlement barred any future lawsuits regarding Philip M ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
Smash-and-grab Minnesota jewelry store robbers caught on tape [VIDEO]
Over the last month, a pack of smash-and-grab robbers have struck six Minnesota jewelry stores, attempted a seventh robbery in Eagan, and are possibly connected with two other cases. The most recent robbery happened last Tuesday night, April 24. At about 11 p.m., three suspects did a smash-and-grab ... More >>
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April 17, 2012
Ronald Schneider, 70-year-old cop killer, denied parole
Cop killer Ronald Schneider won't be getting out of prison anytime soon. Schneider, a 70-year-old convicted of murdering a Robbinsdale police officer in 1985, is one of just a few men currently in the Minnesota prison system unaffected by the 1993 law mandating life without parole for killing a cop ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2012
Minnesota Lutherans demand change following pastor sex scandal
Darwin Schauer worked for eight years as a lay pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lake George, Minnesota, a small community southwest of Bemidji. He did so despite the fact that district leaders of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod knew he was convicted in 1983 of sexual abuse of a minor.Schauer, ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2012
William Jacobs sentenced to 18 years in prison for child molestation
The next time William Jacobs is a free man, he could be well into his 80s. Jacobs, a former Minneapolis Parks Police chief and teacher, was sentenced to 18 years in prison Monday for child molestation and possession of child pornography. And when he is released, he'll serve another 10 years of p ... More >>
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March 26, 2012
Cody Pedersen took 10-year old on burglary missions
Cody Pederson took his girlfriend's 10-year old out to commit several burglaries, prosecutors allege. Pederson, a 28-year old from Alexandria, has been charged with 20 counts of burglary, criminal damage to property, child endangerment and contributing to the delinquency of a child for allegedly co ... More >>
News
March 21, 2012
The Columbine effect
Hollywood still obsessed with school shooting 13 years later
Blogs
March 7, 2012
Timothy Bakdash guilty of murdering Benjamin Van Handel
Timothy Bakdash was found guilty of second-degree murder by a Hennepin County jury yesterday afternoon. Hennepin County prosecutors charged Bakdash with first and second-degree murders over a spring 2011 incident where Bakdash, who had been drinking at The Library Bar in Dinkytown, deliberately ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
Rory Koch was busted for child porn possession while running for Ramsey County commissioner
In the fall of 2010, Rory Koch, a longtime employee of the Minnesota House of Representatives, ran for Ramsey County commissioner.Though he didn't win the election, Koch ended up receiving a respectable 25 percent of the vote. Little did Ramsey County residents know when they cast their ballots t ... More >>
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March 5, 2012
TiZA bankruptcy trustee settles for $1,400,000 with ACLU
TiZA bankruptcy trustee John Hedback announced Friday that he had reached a settlement agreement with the ACLU of Minnesota over attorney's fees and costs. In exchange for the ACLU dismissing its federal lawsuit against Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, Hedback will pay the ACLU $1,400,000. Attorneys for ... More >>
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February 17, 2012
Derek Wayne Brown sentenced to eight years for 500 grams of cocaine
Derek Wayne Brown, a 43-year-old Minneapolis man, was sentenced to eight years in prison today for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams of cocaine. Brown was released from jail in 2008 after serving 14 years for first-degree assault. In November 2010, he and eight others were indicted fo ... More >>
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February 16, 2012
Paul Hill shoots .22 caliber handgun at acquaintance, controversially avoids prison time
Hill is a basketball coach and father of Ohio State hoops star Tayler Hill.Last September, Paul Hill -- a father of seven with a clean record -- got into an argument with an acquaintance named Patrick Adams outside the YWCA at 2121 E. Lake St. in Minneapolis.The argument escalated into a physical ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
Denny Hecker being transferred to mystery prison
Once the owner of a 17,000 square-foot mansion, fallen auto mogul Denny Hecker is now just trying to find a stable prison cell to call home. Hecker, who pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud two years ago, was transferred out of the federal prison in Duluth on February 8, confirms Chris Burk ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Benito Hernandez Romo Jr. allegedly steals car during job interiew
Benito Hernandez Romo Jr. was looking for a job when he stole a car, prosecutors say. Romo was in Apple Valley for a job interview when he took someone else's car for a joyride. According to police, the car's rightful owner parked his car at a train station in Apple Valley just before 7 a.m. Januar ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Native Mob takedown: a closer look at the charges [PHOTOS]
Over the past two weeks, local and federal law enforcement agencies have been collaborating on a statewide takedown of the Native Mob. As we first reported in our November cover story, "The Banishing," the Native Mob started in south Minneapolis in the '90s, and has since established a national rep ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
Michael Hudalla sentenced to 6 years in prison, ordered to pay $847,000 in restitution
Michael Hudalla, formerly a prominent figure in the Minneapolis biker scene, was sentenced to more than six years in prison yesterday for two racketeering charges. Hudalla was also ordered to pay a combined total of $847,023 in restitution to City Mortgage and Provident Funding. We first wrote a ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Annie Stensrud, KEYC Mankato "drunk broadcast" anchor, charged with DWI
Anne Stensrud was nearly four times over the limitAnnie Stensrud has been charged with a DWI in connection with a December arrest for drunk driving. Stensrud became a national celebrity in early December after slurring her way through the opening of a news broadcast for KEYC Mankato, a CBS-F ... More >>
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