DULUTH, Minn. – Just after 10:30 p.m. Sunday night the Duluth Police Department received a report of an armed robbery at the Short Stop convenience store located at 1301 East 9th Street. When officers arrived on scene they learned that two armed robbers entered the store and demanded money from the cash register. The store clerk was physically assaulted in…
(Anne Arundel Police via AP)(AP) – A man who police say opened fire at a Maryland newspaper office Thursday, killing five and injuring two others, had a long, acrimonious history with the newspaper, including a lawsuit and years of harassment of its journalists on Twitter. Jarrod Warren Ramos, swiftly arrested by police after the attack, was charged Friday with five…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota woman accused of drowning her newborn shortly after giving birth has been arrested in western Minnesota. Authorities say the 36-year-old West Fargo woman was picked up in Pope County, Minnesota late Tuesday on an arrest warrant issued by Cass County. Authorities say the woman gave birth at a friend’s townhouse in Fargo May…
NEW HOPE, Minn. (AP) – A standoff that started with a domestic dispute in New Hope has ended peacefully 18 hours later. New Hope Police Capt. Scott Slawson says a man who was allegedly holding two children in a town house surrendered Tuesday afternoon. Slawson says the man was taken to a hospital for an evaluation. The two children were…
MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) – A former Mendota Heights high school teacher has been sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a student. Thirty-two-year-old Christine Lee Funk faced a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison for three counts of criminal sexual contact with the 17-year-old boy. Instead, Funk pleaded guilty to one count and the two others…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) – Authorities say two people killed a man on a Minnesota farmstead before burning the body and burying the remains in two separate sites. Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Jensen and 34-year-old Kayla Westcott are charged with aiding and abetting murder with intent, but without premeditation. They face 40 years in prison if convicted. Jensen and Westcott were arrested during…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) – A St. Cloud man is accused of severing two fingertips of a man who came to his front door last week. Sixty-seven-year-old Clarence Junior Hilliard Jr. appeared in Stearns County court Monday on two felony counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. According to the criminal complaint, a neighbor told police he went to Hilliard’s…
NEW HOPE, Minn. (AP) – A standoff that started with a domestic dispute stretched into daylight in New Hope where a man was barricaded in a house with two children. Officers were dispatched to a home about 8 p.m. Monday where a woman said her boyfriend was threatening her and her two children. When police arrived, they found the woman…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says officials have recovered a black and silver handgun from the scene of a Minneapolis police shooting that left a man dead. The bureau, which is investigating the shooting, said Sunday that the man ran from officers while holding a gun. Authorities say Minneapolis police officers pursued and then shot the…
DULUTH, Minn. – Gregory Sullwold, the man accused of releasing the Vista Fleet boats into the harbor last September, has been sentenced. Sullwold was sentenced Friday morning to two years’ probation and a $1,000 fine. He pleaded guilty to felony theft indifferent to owner’s rights in March. The Vista Fleet boats were not damaged in the incident; however one of…
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) – A Kasson police officer is being held on unconditional bond of $1 million for criminal sexual conduct charges in Olmsted County. Fifty-one-year-old Julio Baez was arrested earlier this week at a Winona motel. A complaint against Baez says he sexually abused two girls, one for 11 years, from the time she was 5 until she was…
MILWAUKEE (AP) – A man with three drunken driving convictions is charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle in the death of a pedestrian who was struck and killed in Milwaukee earlier this week. A criminal complaint says 35-year-old Christopher Anderson was drunk when he hit and killed 64-year-old Bruce Williams Monday. Authorities say Anderson had his 8-day-old…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A judge has sentenced a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three female students and choking or stalking two others to three years behind bars. WKOW-TV reports Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke sentenced 22-year-old Alec Cook of Edina, Minnesota, on Thursday to three years in prison and five years of…
DULUTH, Minn. – Thousands gathered Wednesday to hear President Trump address the crowds gathered at the Amsoil Arena, and according to the Duluth Police Department only two arrests were made at the event. One person was arrested for disorderly conduct and another was arrested for obstructing legal process. Both parties were outside of the arena protesting. Authorities say they do…
ST. JAMES, Minn. (AP) – A southern Minnesota man has been charged in the fatal shootings of his wife and her adult daughter from a previous marriage. The Star Tribune reports that 59-year-old Scott Engelbrecht was charged with two counts of murder and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon Monday in Watonwan County. A criminal complaint says Engelbrecht…
(AP Photo/David Zalubowski) DENVER (AP) — A 12-year-old boy told police he saw a driver open fire on his family during a road rage confrontation in Colorado, killing his older brother and critically wounding his mother and younger brother, authorities said Friday. Police arrested Jeremy Webster, 23, hours after the shooting that killed a 13-year-old boy and also wounded a…
BURNSVILLE, Minn. – The ex-Burnsville high school teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student and sending nude photos of himself to another student is getting jail time. Fox 9 reports, Erik Akervik, 29, will also serve 30 days in jail every year he is on probation, pay a fine and register as a predatory offender, officials said. Those…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A western Minnesota man faces federal charges that he illegally possessed 10 machine guns as well as unregistered pipe bombs and silencers. A federal grand jury indicted 46-year-old Chad Lee Monson of Willmar on numerous firearms violations last week. Monson returns to U.S. District Court for a detention hearing and arraignment Friday. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports…
DULUTH, Minn. – Karla Winterfeld appeared back in court yesterday with a request to reduce her bail. Currently her bail is set at $100,000 which Winterfeld asked to be reduced to $50,000. According to court reports the judge denied this request stating “bail to stand as previously ordered.” The Duluth Middle School teacher admitted to having sex with her foster…
DULUTH, Minn. – A man has been arrested for first degree burglary and threats of violence after attempting to force his way into a home in the Endion neighborhood. The incident took place Monday on the 1700 block of East Fourth Street at approximately 8:30 p.m. According to authorities the man was stabbed while attempting to forcefully enter a female’s…
CASS LAKE, Minn. (AP) – Authorities say a 25-year-old man has died after he was assaulted in northern Minnesota. Cass County Sheriff Tom Burch says his office was notified late Thursday that a “serious assault” victim had been brought to the Cass Lake Indian Health Services hospital. Burch says the man, from Cass Lake, was pronounced dead shortly afterward. Police…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Authorities say a motorist being pursued by the State Patrol veered into a park and struck two children in Minneapolis. KARE-TV reports an SUV driver left the interstate and drove onto a playground near Jenny Kind Elementary School. The SUV traveled through the basketball and tennis courts and struck the children on or near the playground before…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Nine former and current University of Minnesota football players who say their rights were violated in a sexual misconduct investigation are suing the school, alleging they’re victims of racial and gender discrimination. The federal lawsuit was filed Friday. It stems from the university’s investigation into an alleged gang rape of a female student in 2016. The lawsuit…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Prosecutors have reached a plea deal with a 19-year-old man who was shot by Minneapolis officers after he brandished a knife in a police interrogation room in December. Marcus Fischer pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of assault for moving toward officers with a knife he had smuggled into the room at City Hall. Authorities say Fischer…
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Three former Michigan State University football players accused in the sexual assault of a woman have avoided jail time after pleading guilty. Josh King, Donnie Corley Jr. and Demetric Vance were sentenced Wednesday to three years’ probation, as well as sex offender treatment and therapy. They pleaded guilty in April to seducing an unmarried woman, a…
DULUTH, Minn. – Authorities are searching for a suspect after a stabbing incident in Duluth’s Endion neighborhood yesterday. According to the Duluth Police Department the victim told police he was stabbed by his girlfriend in an apartment. The stabbing took place at the 1800 block of East Second Street at approximately 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Authorities say the man suffered non-life…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A man who allegedly hacked into Minnesota state computer databases because he was angry over the acquittal of the officer who shot and killed Philando Castile has been charged. Charges against 19-year-old Cameron Thomas Crowley of Lino Lakes were unsealed Tuesday. He faces multiple counts, including intentional damage to a protected computer. Crowley is also charged with…
Dalton Nagel of Blue EarthFAIRMONT, Minn. (AP) – A southern Minnesota high school football player has admitted he took part in an assault on a teammate that left the other teenager unconscious last fall. Eighteen-year-old Dalton Nagel of Blue Earth pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge of aiding and abetting third-degree assault in the attack on the 16-year-old teammate…
MILWAUKEE (AP) – A former employee of Johnsonville Sausage is facing federal charges that accuse him of putting foreign objects in sausages while he worked at the Sheboygan Falls company. The tampering charges allege Jonathan Tilman Lane, of Kiel, placed a wire connector in a sausage on the processing line, and during another occasion, put a cigarette paper in another…
WAUPACA, Wis. (AP) – A 64-year-old man is accused of driving drunk for the 14th time since 1994 after crashing his car in Waupaca County. A criminal complaint says Daniel Nordell, of Almond, hit a mailbox, a speed limit sign and a utility pole in Farmington last week before he was arrested. WAOW-TV says a preliminary breath test found his…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A former Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman when he was off duty. Forty-nine-year-old Thomas Tichich was convicted in April of two counts of third-degree sexual assault. He was fired hours after the verdict. The incident happened in December 2016. Tichich was accused of forcing oral sex…
WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) – An employee of a Menards store in Watertown has been arrested for trying to abduct a young child. Police say the attempted abduction of the 4-year-old child happened at the store Sunday afternoon. Assistant Police Chief Tim Toomey says the 35-year-old Canby, Minnesota man grabbed the child and quickly walked away from the boy’s family. KSFY-TV…
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein declined Wednesday to testify before the New York grand jury that is weighing whether to indict him on rape and other sex charges, with his lawyers saying there wasn’t enough time to prepare and “political pressure” made an indictment unavoidable. A statement issued through a Weinstein spokesman said the former movie mogul…
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) – A Bloomington woman is jailed in the fatal beating of her husband. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office says the 53-year-old man suffered blows to the head Sunday and died at Hennepin County Medical Center several hours later. Police say the 51-year-old woman had called authorities about a domestic dispute. Officers found her husband unconscious. Authorities…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) – Authorities say there’s an alarming amount of sex trafficking at illicit massage businesses in central Minnesota. A St. Cloud Times investigation found that a Waite Park business police raided this month is one of a half-dozen in the area regularly advertising on websites known for selling sex. Riverwood Massage and Body Works owner Yanhang Lin…
(Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman via AP)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A gunman opened fire inside an Oklahoma City restaurant during the dinner rush, wounding a woman and two girls before two armed citizens shot him dead outside, police said Friday. The suspected gunman, 28-year-old Alexander Tilghman, was armed with a pistol when he entered Louie’s On The Lake around 6:30 p.m. on…
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)NEW YORK (AP) – A lawyer representing one of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged victims called his arraignment on criminal charges “an emotional moment.” Attorney Carrie Goldberg represents former actress Lucia Evans, who says Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex in his office in 2004. Weinstein was charged Friday with attacking Evans and raping another, unidentified woman at a…
DULUTH, Minn. – A difficult situation for two mothers, family members and friends entering the St. Louis County Courthouse in Duluth Thursday. More than 15 months after the murder of UMD student William Grahek, 22, two suspects — a brother and sister — involved in the case were sentenced for their role in the crime. Police responded to the scene…
CRYSTAL, Minn. (AP) – A police shooting in a suburban Minneapolis neighborhood has sent one person to the hospital with nonlethal injuries. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says the shooting happened at a home in Crystal Wednesday night. The agency says the person is being treated at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale and is expected to live. The…
CENTER CITY, Minn. (AP) – A man charged with killing his neighbor over a lake access dispute has been acquitted in Chisago County. Forty-four-year-old Carl Anderson was facing the possibility of more than two decades in prison had he been found guilty of second-degree murder. Anderson was the one who called 911 after shooting 62-year-old Donn Johnson in February 2017….
DULUTH, Minn. – The red wagon popcorn stand in Canal Park is back open after thieves broke into the decades-old seasonal business. Duluth police say the crime happened between 7 p.m. May 17 and 6:30 a.m. the next day. No suspects were in custody Wednesday. There are no security cameras nearby. Workers of the stand just want the bad guys…
DULUTH, Minn. – A teacher with the Duluth School District, Karla Winterfeld, 33, of Duluth, has confessed to having sex with her 15-year-old foster son who is also her former student, according to the criminal complaint in St. Louis County Court. Winterfeld is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and is being held on $100,000 bail. According to the criminal…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for repeatedly punching his infant son and severely injuring him. Twenty-three-year-old Johnny Taylor of Little Canada was sentenced Wednesday to 86 months in prison after pleading guilty to felony assault in Ramsey County. Authorities say Taylor began punching his 4-week-old son in…
DULUTH,Minn – Lincoln Park Middle School teacher, Karla Winterfeld, 33, of Duluth, has confessed to having sex with her 15-year-old foster son who is also her former student, according to a criminal complaint. Winterfeld has been charged with first degree criminal sexual conduct and is being held on $100,000 bail. According to the criminal complaint authorities say they discovered text…
MILWAUKEE (AP) – Milwaukee police are investigating a fire at a home where a 15-year-old boy was brutally attacked and killed apparently over a stolen video game. Officials say the fire Tuesday night could be arson. Fire damage was limited. Twenty-one-year-old Malik Terrell is charged with killing Dennis King at the home by attacking him with a hammer and stabbing…
(AP Photo/Richard Vogel) LOS ANGELES (AP) – A University of Southern California student is suing the school and an ex-campus gynecologist who she accuses of sexual battery. The lawsuit filed Tuesday is the latest targeting Dr. George Tyndall, who worked at a USC clinic for 30 years before resigning in 2017. Tyndall has denied wrongdoing in interviews with the Los…
DULUTH, Minn. – Getting housing and employment can be difficult for formerly incarcerated people. Ex-cons shared their stories of pursuing a life after prison. The event at the Damiano Center in Duluth taught the community about efforts being done to get stable housing for people with criminal backgrounds “It’s not like prisoners and everything are these scary people behind bushes…
DETROIT (AP) – A Detroit-area man who brokered cadavers and body parts for medical training has been sentenced to nine years in prison for failing to disclose that they had been infected with hepatitis or HIV. Arthur Rathburn showed no remorse Tuesday during rambling remarks to a federal judge. He blamed any problems on groups that supplied him with bodies…
DULUTH, Minn. – Duluth officials announced today that all of the city’s previously untested sexual assault kits have now been submitted to the state for testing. Back in 2015, Duluth had the most untested sexual assault kits of any city in Minnesota. After securing more than $2 million in federal grants to fund the project, local officials worked together to…
FORADA, Minn. (AP) – Two men charged with manslaughter in the death of a firefighter who was found beaten outside a bar in western Minnesota are due in court. Troy Traut and Jacob Larson are each charged with first-degree manslaughter and fifth-degree assault and are scheduled in Douglas County court Monday. Forty-six-year-old Steven Hlinsky was found bleeding from his nose…
