New York Crime

Duluth man allegedly tossed Molotov cocktails from roof of Shanty Bottle Shop

Frighteningly, 2013 is shaping up to be the year of the Molotov cocktail. First it was the Midtown Greenway, then it was an alleged domestic juggalo terrorist in Montevideo, and now, the Soviet-style incendiary devices are making headlines in Duluth.SEE ALSO: Duluth muffin macer sprays man following ... More >>

Medicare fraudsters swindle millions from the feds

Hospitals, doctors, and drug dealers have made Medicare the nation's sweetest crime, but the feds are trying to shutter the door

Banks caught swindling red-handed

Country club Sopranos get kid-glove treatment for high crimes

Matthew Ellsworth gets probation for having sex with student [UPDATE]

SEE ALSO -- Matthew Ellsworth: Sex with student not criminal because it happened during summerHigh school English teacher Matthew Ellsworth, 36, had a sexual relationship with a then-17-year-old girl last summer. The girl was a student in Ellsworth's spring 2011 class at Spectrum High School, a char ... More >>

The Columbine effect

Hollywood still obsessed with school shooting 13 years later

Man on a Ledge goes thud

Sam Worthington flops in center role

The Boy Scouts' Police Problem

Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should Scouts share the blame?

Sex-trafficking stereotype demolished by new research

Alarmists nationwide in denial

Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, freed from Iran, call for release of all political prisoners

Shane Bauer, left, Josh Fattal: Back home, and speaking out.​Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have returned to the United States, and begun describing their two-plus-year ordeal in Iran as accused, convicted, and imprisoned "spies." The two Americans had to go on hunger strikes just to receive letters ... More >>

Derrick Griffin, minister, charged with murdering Kristopher Miller

Kristopher Miller was shot dead on May 11.​Derrick Griffin, an associate pastor at the North Side's True Vine Missionary Baptist Church, has been charged with murdering North High School staffer Kristopher Miller, who was found shot dead in front of his home last week. Griffin, 40, was arrested l ... More >>

Derreck Griffin, minister, arrested in Kristopher Miller's shooting death

Kristopher Miller was a popular North High staffer.​Minneapolis police have arrested 40-year-old Derreck Griffin, an associate pastor at True Vine Missionary Baptist Church on the city's north side, in connection with Kristopher Miller's shooting death early Tuesday morning. Griffin, who is ... More >>

Crunching on popcorn gets a man killed during a screening of "Black Swan"

A man is shot and killed during a screening of "Black Swan" for eating his popcorn too audibly

DMX: Will the Ruff Ryder rise again?

Hear exclusive new songs from the troubled rapper

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

Minnesota's Most Wanted Criminals

Have you seen these fugitives?

Pinalcchio

Phoenix deputy's tale of being shot by drug smugglers doesn't add up

Jarso Yohannes Adem's acid attack was part of a trend

Jarso Johannes Adem: Part of the problem.​Jarso Yohannes Adem has admitted he threw battery acid on his former girlfriend in St. Louis Park because he couldn't handle her rejection It's the kind of growing violence we usually read about coming out of places like Afghanistan, South Asia or Afr ... More >>

Minneapolis-St.Paul just isn't that stressed out

Minneapolis is mellow -- comparatively​We hear lots of teeth gnashing over our spiraling homicide count, cuts to our police and firefighting budgets, pot hole-infested roadways and gimpy NFL quarterback. But the truth is, despite that stuff, the Twin Cities is one of the least stressful metrop ... More >>

Asylum Denied

Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum

Seized: Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

Part of the Amongst Us series

Anthony Smeby arrested after carjacking in Dinkytown with toy gun

Photo: banspyAnthony Smeby was found passed out behind the wheel of the stolen car​When Ramsey County Sheriff's deputies finally tracked down the car he's accused of taking at gunpoint in Dinkytown, Anthony Smeby didn't prove to be much of a challenging arrest. He was passed out behind the car ... More >>

Dallas Drake puts hit on smiley-face killer theory

Just when you thought the smiley face killer theory had finally gone away... an academic researcher has attempted to debunk the hare-brained idea once and for all.

On the trail of the Nitrous Mafia

Summer concerts are jamming to the familiar hiss of “hippie crack”

Thomas Joseph Neeland arrested in Andrew Battees' murder

​Minneapolis police say a suspect has been arrested in the murder of 16-year-old Andrew Battees. Thomas Joseph Neeland, 26, is currently in custody at the Hennepin County Jail on a charge of probable cause murder. Minneapolis cops found Battees early in the morning of June 13 laying in the fr ... More >>

Cowboy Down

Murdered Southern Arizona rancher Rob Krentz's family talk about his life and death

Mary Stauffer stalked by former math student Ming Shiue

Mother survives 53 days trapped in closet with her daughter

Hecker, Petters, and Pawlenty: Turkeys of the Year 2009

The Twin Cities dirty dozen we're thankful to see go away

Hecker, Petters, and Pawlenty: Turkeys of the Year 2009

The dirty dozen we're thankful to see go away.

Highlight: The Warriors

Police beatings, ball slashings, and cat killings

A violent week in the news

Girl, 14, raped during bike ride on Lake Wobegon Trail

One man's horrific actions have tarnished our good perceptions of Garrison Keillor's quirky Lake Wobegon.

Meet Bob Fletcher: Ramsey County's most controversial cop

Ramsey County Sheriff fends off charges of cronyism

University of Minnesota's Campus Con Man

Drinking buddies and ex-girlfriends were surprised to discover that the U of M student was 39 years old

One Nation, Invisible

The untold story of local hip hop: 1981 to 1996

Snitching on a Snitch

The Strib outs a police informant. Was it worth the risk?

Portrait of the Artist as a Killer

The Art of Murder or How to Take a Friend's Life Without Really Trying. Acclaimed artist Carl Wesley, a.k.a. Inmate 198369, wrote the book.

Shootout on 39th Street

Gangland fears, carjackings, welfare-bashing: The O'Kasick brothers' crime spree--which ended 40 years ago this week--had it all.