The woman accused of stealing a 92-year-old woman’s purse at the laundromat and who was detained hours later by the victim’s 73-year-old daughter has been identified as a St. Paul woman with a long history of felony level convictions for theft and burglary around the state.

Prosecutors have charged a Minneapolis man with murder after he allegedly admitted to shooting a man in the face outside a south side gas station this week because the victim called him the 'N-word.'

After a 92-year-old woman had her purse ripped from her arms at the laundromat Thursday morning, March 25, the victim’s 73-year-old daughter returned to the scene of the crime and set up a stakeout, waiting for hours in hopes of catching the thief, St. Paul police said.

Washington County authorities are raising awareness after what they call an “alarming increase” in cases of online “sextortion” cases involving juveniles, with multiple cases under review by the Woodbury Department of Public Safety.

A man believed to be in his 40s was shot and killed just before midnight last night on the 1700 block of E. Lake St., Minneapolis police said.

Dispatch audio gives more detail into the wild pursuit of a stolen taxi that led Minneapolis police from the southwest to the heart of downtown and left a pedestrian injured this morning before the driver was apprehended in a parking ramp.

Dramatic video shows the moments after an armed suspect rammed an Eagan police squad car and started a brief standoff on a busy south Twin Cities roadway.

Gage Allen David Anderson, 18, of Farmington, has been charged with one count of attempted 1st-degree murder (while committing a felony) in connection with the shooting on the north end of town March 19, 2021.

St. Paul police are investigating what is believed to be a murder-suicide after a man and woman were found fatally shot Saturday, March 20, outside a home on the east side.

Minneapolis police pursued a pickup involved in a shots fired incident through the south side Friday, March 13, ending just east of the so-called “NoGoZone” or “autonomous zone” near E. 38th St. & Chicago Ave.

A shooting near the Pourhouse in the Uptown neighborhood of south Minneapolis Saturday, March 6 left one person injured. Firefighters reported they found one victim who was suffering from a gunshot wound and applied a tourniquet to control the bleeding.

Authorities say Kohlin Louis Fohrenkam-Differenthorse, of Minneapolis, died of multiple gunshot wounds at the scene of the shooting.