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Trials

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Amy Senser settles civil lawsuit with Phanthavong family

    Joe and Amy Senser have settled the wrongful death lawsuit against them over the hit-and-run death of Anousone Phanthavong, according to the victim's family's attorney. Terms of the settlement have not been publicly released, but the settlement comes a day after Amy Senser was found guilty of crimi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    CeCe McDonald pleads guilty to lesser charge

    Chrishaun "CeCe" McDonald, a transgender woman facing two second-degree murder charges, agreed to a plea deal in court today. McDonald pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, which will carry a 41-month sentence. McDonald was accused of stabbing Dean Alvin Schmitz in the heart outside the S ... More >>

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Martin Kessman, 290-pound man, sues White Castle on behalf of pregnant women

    Is there an inalienable right to slyders?​What is it about White Castle that makes so many people feel access to slyders is their inalienable right? Just a couple years ago, a wheelchair bound St. Paul woman (who happened to be a former stripper, remember?) lost a lawsuit against the Castle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Outback Steakhouse ordered to pay $1.25 million in tip-sharing lawsuit

    Outback servers won a class action lawsuit over tip pooling. ​Tip-pooling--when a restaurant's waitstaff shares a percentage of their gratuities with untipped staffers, such as bussers and dishwashers--has become a popular practice at some local restaurants, including Piccolo and Travail. Bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Jonathan Rubio-Segura on trial for murder, faces possible deportation

    Hennepin CountyJonathan Rubio-Segura killed Anthony Gale in March 2010.​Jonathan Rubio-Segura is living two nightmares. The 27-year old is on trial this week for second-degree murder after he drunkenly punched Anthony Gale in the face outside a downtown strip club in March 2010. Rubio-Segura's su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    John Heuer pleads guilty to kidnap, assault of 8-year-old girl he called a hooker

    Heuer pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal sexual conduct and one kidnapping charge.​John Heuer, the Spring Lake Park resident who kidnapped and sexually assaulted an 8-year-old girl, pleaded guilty yesterday to the facts of the case, WCCO reports. Heuer was arrested in May for kidnapping a gi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Michael Richard Swanson will plead guilty to second Iowa murder

    Michael Richard Swanson will plead guilty.​Michael Swanson has already been found guilty of murdering Sheila Myers in cold blood at a store in Humboldt, Iowa, last November. Now he's going to plead guilty to the second murder that night, of Vicky Bowman-Hall, in Algona. His legal team is tell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Johnson & Johnson's Levaquin risks were known, jury decides

    Our cover story, Achilles Heel, documented Johnson & Johnson's efforts to prove its drug was safe​A federal jury in Minneapolis has decided that the risks of a blockbuster drug made by Johnson & Johnson were well-established, directly contradicting a verdict another jury reached last fall. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Minneapolis will pay Tanise Winder $190,000 to settle police brutality case

    Winder says officer Lukes "viciously tackled" her.​The City of Minneapolis will pay out $190,000 to a woman who says a police officer did nothing as another woman attacked her, and then tackled her when she tried to fight back. Tanise Winder filed the federal lawsuit in 2009 accusing Minneapo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Michael Swanson claims insanity in Iowa double homicide

    Swanson claims he was insane.​Seventeen-year-old Michael Swanson, famous for smiling and laughing after being charged in November with murdering two Iowa gas station workers in two separate shootings, plans to claim insanity as a defense when his trials start this summer.

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Rachel Reeves's murder charges dropped after sitter flees to Mexico

    Hennepin County JailRachel Reeves is off the hook for murder--but maybe not for long.​Rachel Reeves was supposed to go to trial yesterday on charges that she killed her 15-month old, Julia Leigh Rivera, two years ago. But when a key witness--the babysitter who was with the little girl when she sto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Stephanie Smith settles with Cargill over toxic meat

    Screengrab via YouTubeStephanie Smith ate a hamburger tainted with E.coli from a Cargill facility​Cold Spring's Stephanie Smith, left paralyzed from the waist down after eating a hamburger tainted by E. coli traced to a Cargill meat processing plant, has agreed to settle a lawsuit against the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Tim Pawlenty denied health care lawsuit

    ​Almost before the ink was dry on President Barack Obama's signature making it the law of the land, the health care reform package passed by Congress was challenged in two separate federal lawsuits by 15 Republican governors; 14 were led by Florida's attorney general and Virginia's AG filed a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Denny Hecker and Steve Leach plead not guilty to new round of fraud charges

    If convicted, Hecker and Leach face a potential maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Ryan Stanley Hurd indicted by Minnesota grand jury on murder charges

    Hurd is accused of stabbing his Eagan, Minn. girlfriend more than 100 times and leaving her in a ditch.

  • News

    February 10, 2010

    Mary Stauffer stalked by former math student Ming Shiue

    Mother survives 53 days trapped in closet with her daughter

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Family sues Minneapolis park police for breaking boy's arm

    This family has faced off with police before: In 2005, a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed the boy's older brother.

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Skate park's former owner sentenced after 'touching' conviction

    Wayne Lee Cummings learns he's going to spend a very long time in prison.

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2009

    The Trial of Tom Petters: A graphic look at a sensational trial

    Ken Avidor will be offering his unique artistic take on a sensational trial that has barred cameras.

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Only in Wisconsin: Man finds roadkill deer, eats it, mounts head

    A Wisconsin man has been ordered to return the roadkill deer head he mounted after eating the animal's remains.

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Accused GOP convention sandbag thrower pleads guilty

    The man accused of dropping a 50-pound sandbag onto Interstate 94 during the Republican National Convention pleaded guilty Monday.

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Wis. man breaks into house, sleeps on couch, eats cornbread

    Casual robbers, Facebook blackmailers, pet killers, lesbian beaters, and a religious leader accused of hiding a corpse on a toilet. Can Minnesota top that? Never.

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    First RNC protester files police brutality suit

    Casual robbers, Facebook blackmailers, pet killers, lesbian beaters, and a religious leader accused of hiding a corpse on a toilet. Can Minnesota top that? Never.

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2008

    Minneapolis foreclosure crisis story in USA Today

    Casual robbers, Facebook blackmailers, pet killers, lesbian beaters, and a religious leader accused of hiding a corpse on a toilet. Can Minnesota top that? Never.

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2007

    Willmar raid nets lawsuit

    Casual robbers, Facebook blackmailers, pet killers, lesbian beaters, and a religious leader accused of hiding a corpse on a toilet. Can Minnesota top that? Never.

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2007

    You have to fight for the right to pray

    Casual robbers, Facebook blackmailers, pet killers, lesbian beaters, and a religious leader accused of hiding a corpse on a toilet. Can Minnesota top that? Never.

  • News

    October 25, 2006

    Have You Seen Me?

    A law-and-order Christian conservative most people have never heard of tries to wrest the AG's office away from the DFL

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2006

    Crime blotter: divine intervention

    A law-and-order Christian conservative most people have never heard of tries to wrest the AG's office away from the DFL

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2006

    Johnny Earl Edwards: the archive

    A law-and-order Christian conservative most people have never heard of tries to wrest the AG's office away from the DFL

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2006

    Most Expensive Hand-Job Ever?

    A law-and-order Christian conservative most people have never heard of tries to wrest the AG's office away from the DFL

  • News

    May 31, 2006

    A Hunk of Burning Love

    Minneapolis Fire Chief Bonnie Bleskachek had a way with the ladies--as firefighter Kristina Lemon claims she learned the hard way

  • News

    May 28, 2003

    Something for the Little People

    The Twin Cities-based Northwest Area Foundation has a $450 million endowment to use on charitable programs. So why has it been nearly invisible for years?

  • News

    May 7, 2003

    Crazy

    The sad, strange case of Darren Odell and the sorry state of our insanity laws

  • News

    April 16, 2003

    Jeff Anderson crusades against the Catholic Church

    Minnesota lawyer has made millions suing

  • Books

    July 24, 2002

    Canon Fodder

    Judge Roland Amundson's other faux pas

  • Books

    August 22, 2001

    Tainted Love

    Plans to open a West Bank homeless shelter hit another snag

  • News

    May 30, 2001

    Fouling the Air

    Employees say Northwest Airlines works harder to avoid discrimination lawsuits than it does to stop bigotry

  • News

    September 6, 2000

    Arrested Development

    City officials say the head of the Frogtown Action Alliance is dodging them. Two former employees say he sexually harassed them. Leaders in the struggling St. Paul neighborhood fear Shem Shakir's bad karma is contagious.

  • News

    April 5, 2000

    Purple Stain

    Securities scams, karaoke-bar brawls, and the occasional boozy ride: At least there's one championship the Vikings might be winning

  • News

    March 29, 2000

    The Yo-Yo Files

    Why did it take three investigations, two trials, and one year of legal ups and downs to convict Alfred Flowers of sassing a cop? He may never know: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and the FBI have declared the records top-secret.

  • Feature

    December 1, 1998

    Counselor at U files anti-gay discrimination suit

    Why did it take three investigations, two trials, and one year of legal ups and downs to convict Alfred Flowers of sassing a cop? He may never know: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and the FBI have declared the records top-secret.

  • Feature

    July 1, 1998

    Just Short of Murder

    A jury finds that a gay man's killer may have taken "reasonable" action

  • Books

    June 24, 1998

    Stool Pigeon Redux

    His trial was a comedy of errors, but the man Johnny Edwards fingered for murder isn't laughing

  • Books

    November 26, 1997

    David Lebedoff: Cleaning Up

    His trial was a comedy of errors, but the man Johnny Edwards fingered for murder isn't laughing

  • Sports

    November 19, 1997

    Court TV

    His trial was a comedy of errors, but the man Johnny Edwards fingered for murder isn't laughing

  • News

    April 23, 1997

    State's Evidence

    A police informant with a mile-long rap sheet proves unreliable in at least the third--but possibly not the last--of the so-called "Bloods" cases.

  • News

    April 2, 1997

    LSGI Again?

    The City appears headed toward another lawsuit over property on Nicollet Mall

  • News

    December 25, 1996

    GLASS CEILINGS, "LOCKER ROOM CONDUCT," AND WCCO.

    The City appears headed toward another lawsuit over property on Nicollet Mall

  • News

    March 6, 1996

    The Trials of David Lillehaug

    In the wake of Najarian and Shabazz, the U.S. attorney and former DFL prodigy finds his once-bright political future in question.

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