GLYNDON, MN — A person who allegedly shot at a police officer last night in Glyndon is still on the loose. Police say at around 11:30 last night on Highway 10 a Glyndon police officer pulled over a car in a routine traffic stop. Glyndon Patrol Officer Brandon Boe was on a routine traffic stop on Highway 10 near mile marker…
HALSTAD, MN — Police say a Halstad woman is in custody charged with shooting and killing her boyfriend outside their home Monday night. At about 6:30pm police say 20-year-old Mona Lisa Perez shot her 22-year-old boyfriend in the chest outside their home on the 500th Block of US Highway 75 in Halstad. The man was pronounced dead on the scene….
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. — The East Grand Forks Police Department is searching for a suspect who allegedly assaulted a female near the north end walking bridge. Police said just before 5 p.m. Monday, a female called police saying she was rollerblading on the bike path when a man riding a bicycle crashed into her. She told police she fell…
HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn. — The mother of Philando Castile has reached a nearly $3 million settlement in his death. The settlement was announced by attorneys for Valerie Castile and the city of St. Anthony. The settlement avoids the drawn-out process of a federal wrongful death lawsuit stemming from Castile’s death. The 32-year-old elementary school cafeteria worker was killed by…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A judge is considering whether Gov. Dayton’s veto of the Legislature’s funding was unconstitutional. The bitter legal dispute between the Democratic governor and Republican-controlled Legislature had its first hearing in Ramsey County court. Dayton zeroed out the Legislature’s funding last month to force lawmakers to rework a $650 million tax bill and other measures. The…
MINNETONKA, Minn. — One person is dead after a shooting at a Minnesota storage facility. Police say they were called to the 28-hundred block of Hedberg Drive at the Public Storage facility at about 11 a.m. after a fight broke out between two men. Once on the scene, they found one man dead from a gunshot wound. They say they…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Viola Toppin’s 103rd birthday wish came true! We first told you last night that Viola planned to celebrate turning 103 by watching her favorite baseball team, Minnesota Twins, in person. The West Fargo woman was there in the stands today along with her family, enduring the rain and even made the jumbotron. Viola has been following the…
ST. PAUL, Minn. — After five days of deliberation, Jeronimo Yanez was found not guilty on all counts in the shooting death of Philando Castile. Family members met with reporters after the court case came to a close. “This system continues to fail black people and they will continue to fail you all,” said Valerie Castille, mother of Philando Castille….
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — School is out for the summer and people are headed down to the lakes. Crisp, cool water may sound inviting, but it also may contain swimmer’s itch. “Well with lake itch not so much myself but I worry about it with them,” said Emily Tomalla, who is visiting the beach with her children. “I guess we…
OAK PARK HEIGHTS, Minn. — The man serving a life sentence for the murder of a Moose Lake teen in 1999 is on the move. Donald Blom, 68, is moving from a maximum-security prison in Oak Park Heights to a minimum-security prison in Faribault, Minnesota. Blom is convicted of kidnapping 19-year-old convenience store clerk Katie Poirier in 1999. He…
