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March 22, 2018

Rosemount woman sentenced for stealing senior party funds

A Rosemount woman who pleaded guilty to funneling thousands of dollars from a Dakota County high school senior party group has been sentenced....

news/crime-and-courts March 22, 2018 - 9:26pm

March 13, 2018

BBB: Scam uses 'ported' phone numbers to steal money, identities

The Better Business Bureau warns a scam cropping up across the country uses stolen cell phone numbers to steal users' money and identity. This...

news/crime-and-courts March 13, 2018 - 11:25am

March 7, 2018

Minn. bookkeeper charged with embezzling $535,000

ST. PAUL – A federal indictment charges a former bookkeeper of the Farm Mercantile hardware store in Fairfax in south-central Minnesota with...

news/crime-and-courts March 7, 2018 - 9:12pm

Melanie Sue Parkin

Former Minn. teacher sent to prison for robbing pharmacies at gunpoint

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A former special-education teacher for South St. Paul schools was sentenced Tuesday, Feb. 6, in Dakota County District...

news/crime-and-courts February 7, 2018 - 5:07pm

Dozens arrested in Super Bowl sex trafficking sting

Minnesota law enforcement agencies arrested more than three dozen people on felony prostitution and child sex-trafficking charges in the week...

news/crime-and-courts February 7, 2018 - 10:08am

February 5, 2018

Austin James Hagen, 23, of Lakeville. Photo courtesy Dakota County

Man found with more than 100 pounds of THC candy-like gummies in Lakeville

Officers found several thousand candy-like "gummies" containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) during a traffic stop last week in Lakeville. Austin...

news/crime-and-courts February 5, 2018 - 4:53pm

February 2, 2018

Stephen Carl Allwine

Allwine receives life sentence for killing wife, staging suicide

A Cottage Grove man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife following a failed murder-for-hire plot. A Washington County jury...

news/crime-and-courts February 2, 2018 - 1:56pm

Minn. roundup: Super Bowl Live employee offered VIP tickets in exchange for sex with teens; Blaze destroys 3 barns, kills 22 calves

Super Bowl Live employee offered VIP tickets in exchange for sex with teens ST PAUL—A Missouri man in town to work at Super Bowl Live is accused of offering two VIP tickets to the event in exchange for sex with a pair of teens. Justin Beard, 33, of Branson, Mo., was charged...

news/crime-and-courts February 2, 2018 - 1:49pm

Steven Lee Meier. Courtesy of Aitkin County sheriff

Driver pleads guilty in hit-and-run death of 10-year-old near Lake Mille Lacs

AITKIN, Minn. — A Hastings, Minn., man has pleaded guilty to a felony charge in a case involving a 2016 hit-and-run that caused the death...

news/crime-and-courts February 2, 2018 - 9:48am

February 1, 2018

Stephen Carl Allwine

Jury convicts Cottage Grove man accused of killing wife

A Cottage Grove man has been convicted of first-degree premeditated murder. Stephen Carl Allwine drugged and shot his wife, Amy Allwine, before...

news/crime-and-courts February 1, 2018 - 11:09am

January 23, 2018

Stephen Allwine

Trial begins for Cottage Grove man accused of murdering his wife

STILLWATER — Washington County prosecutors allege a Cottage Grove man spent months plotting his wife's murder rather than divorce her...

news/crime-and-courts January 23, 2018 - 3:12pm

Minn. roundup: Woman, 19, dies in skiing accident after striking tree

Minn. woman, 19, dies in skiing accident after striking tree WABASHA, Minn.—A 19-year-old Minnesota woman is dead following an accident at a ski resort in southeastern Minnesota Saturday, Jan. 20, according to KTTC-TV. Bethany Becker, of Corcoran, Minn., hit a tree after failing...

news/crime-and-courts January 23, 2018 - 10:34am

January 12, 2018

Two suspects clad in hoodies and face coverings robbed a Kwik Trip store on Elm Street in Farmington Tuesday, Jan. 9. Farmington police Facebook photo.

Police seeking information on Farmington armed robbery

Farmington police are asking the public for help identifying two suspects in an armed gas station robbery earlier this week. The robbery happened...

news/crime-and-courts January 12, 2018 - 10:57am

January 10, 2018

The Goodhue County Adult Detention Center. File photo

Mental health drugs carry a cost for Minnesota jails

A surge in the number people with mental health problems continues to strain to county jails, and in Goodhue County, the cost of managing their...

news/crime-and-courts January 10, 2018 - 3:00pm

Report of holstered firearm puts Dakota County Technical College on lockdown

A report of what appeared to be a holstered firearm put Dakota County Technical College on lockdown for more than an hour Wednesday afternoon,...

news/crime-and-courts January 10, 2018 - 2:33pm