Police arrested a man Sunday night after a long-running standoff near Emerald Ln. & Diamond Dr., with a wide perimeter and the surrounding neighborhood blocked off for much of the day.

The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a crash left three people dead, including two young children just after 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon. The crash happened near the intersection of Bunker Lake Boulevard NE. & Butternut Street NW. on the border of Ham Lake and Andover.

A woman was found dead and a man was taken into custody after fire crews responded to an apartment building on fire on the 2200 block of South Ave. E. just after 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25. Firefighters extinguished the fire and investigators discovered the woman’s remains inside the apartment.

The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a motorcycle crash that resulted in the deaths of two people in Newport on Friday evening. The crash was reported to authorities just after 6:15 p.m. According to the State Patrol, a 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle was traveling northbound on Highway 61 and taking the exit to I-494 when it veered off the roadway, rolled and came to rest in the grass median.

Saint Paul police confirm a man and woman are dead after an apparent murder-suicide inside a residence on the 2000 block of California Ave. E. around 9:15 p.m. on Tuesday night. Police say a child initially called 911 to report the incident.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after recovering a body from the St. Croix River north of Stillwater on Monday afternoon. Authorities say shortly after 9 a.m., they were notified of an unoccupied fishing boat seen along the Minnesota shoreline near the St. Croix Boom Site.

Deputies with the Wright County Sheriff’s Office fatally shot a man early Sunday morning after he reportedly fled from a residence while armed with a knife in Otsego. According to a media release from the sheriff’s office, deputies were called at 12:52 a.m. to the 12000 block of 72nd Court Northeast in Otsego. A caller had reported that a man was threatening physical harm to his family and himself.

Minneapolis police have confirmed that a teenage male victim was fatally shot at the Nicollet Mall Light Rail platform downtown around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Police found the victim with a critical gunshot wound at the platform, and images later shared with MN CRIME showed a white sheet covering the victim’s body.

A 36-year-old Anoka man has been charged after a woman was found fatally shot inside a Brooklyn Center home on Sunday afternoon. Michael Isaac Klinger is accused of 2nd-degree murder, aggravated controlled substance crime and prohibited person in possession of a firearm in the shooting death of Katie Ann Fredrickson, 34.

Police in Rochester say an officer shot a suspect wielding an ax early Saturday morning after a traffic stop on Hwy. 63. The male suspect was believed to have robbed a business while armed with the ax, around 11 p.m. on the 2000 block of Broadway Ave. S.

Gunfire interrupted the normally quiet downtown area of Janesville Tuesday afternoon, leaving one man seriously injured and a vehicle strewn with bullet holes outside the post office on Main Street.

A suspect reportedly wanted in connection to a previous murder and who was being pursued by officers in Brooklyn Center late Friday afternoon crashed into an unrelated vehicle and injured four of its occupants near 53rd Ave. N. & Humboldt Ave. N.

The man shot and killed by Minneapolis officers during a long-running standoff early Thursday morning at 904 21st. Ave. S. has been identified in an incident report as Andrew Tekle Sundberg, 20. Sundberg was suspected of firing a handgun multiple times while barricaded inside the third-floor apartment unit starting Wednesday night.

A man believed to have initially fired gunshots in an apartment in Minneapolis on Wednesday night was fatally shot by officers early Thursday after a standoff. As officers were responding to a 911 caller hearing gunfire inside the apartment building at 904 21st. Ave. S. shortly before 9:40 p.m., they heard at least four more.

Two men suspected in a gunfight outside an Apple Valley home earlier this week that left a 49-year-old woman dead have both now been charged. The victim was found in a vehicle, shot 10 times and was the mother of one of the suspects, identified as Billy Joe Pryor, Jr., 25.

A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after a minimum 30 years for fatally shooting a man in the head and leaving his body in a snowbank late January 31, 2021 in Inver Grove Heights.

Police have confirmed a woman is dead and two men are injured after a shooting in Apple Valley on the 900 block of Oriole Drive on Sunday night. Police were called there shortly before 6:30 p.m. after 911 callers reported “multiple people with weapons shooting at each other,” according to a brief social media post shared by Apple Valley police.

Four people were shot Wednesday—including a 15-year-old boy—after a confrontation in an alley led to gunfire, Saint Cloud police have confirmed. The gunshots started shortly before 6 p.m. near 6th Ave. S. & 11th St. S., and were witnessed by an EMS crew in the area.

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 6-year-old girl after her mother died of suspected suicide inside her apartment Saturday morning. Police say Lisa Wade, 39, was found dead inside an apartment on the 600 block of Maple Brook Ct. shortly before noon on July 2.

Officers from multiple agencies were searching the area of Vadnais Lake on Friday evening for a reportedly suicidal woman and her three children. According to initial law enforcement dispatch audio reviewed by MN CRIME, the woman’s husband reportedly died by suicide today and the woman then threatened to kill herself and her children.