1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1037+ words) With the St. Paul Police Department about 50 officers below its budgeted strength, the department says it has continued to have to backfill with overtime. The department’s authorized strength is 616 officers this year, but for at least five years it has…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (733+ words) The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office said Friday that two St. Paul police officers were legally justified when they shot and wounded a suspected car thief who pointed a handgun at them on an Interstate 94 on-ramp in downtown St. Paul. Elliot…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (401+ words) MADISON, Wis. — Elon Musk will not face charges for promising to give $1 million to voters in a 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election because no jury would find that constituted election bribery, a state prosecutor said Tuesday. Musk, the founder of SpaceX…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (363+ words) The departure came just five months after he was hired to oversee a criminal inquiry targeting former government officials who have investigation Trump over the last decade, including in connection with Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and his retention…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (185+ words) An apartment building’s fire alarm system, fixed at the city inspector’s order, alerted residents to a fire hours later Thursday, according to officials from the St. Paul Department of Safety and Inspections. Fire safety inspectors with the department were called…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (708+ words) A Hugo woman who left a series of threatening voicemails for Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth was sentenced Thursday to three years of supervised probation. Rachel Marie Welsch, 43, pleaded guilty in Washington County District Court to one felony count of…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (235+ words) A man died after a Wednesday crash in St. Paul following a pursuit by a sheriff’s deputy, the Ramsey County sheriff said Thursday. The incident began when witnesses saw someone breaking into vehicles in the Hill-Murray School parking lot in…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1162+ words) Dylan James Severson was killed in December 2024 by a drunk driver who crashed head on into his car in St. Paul. A few weeks before, the 18-year-old graduate of Cochrane-Fountain City High School in western Wisconsin was accepted into nearby…...

4+ day, 1+ min ago   (171+ words) Veterans will be able to receive free haircuts through the newly started Cuts 4 Vets program at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater from 9 a.m. to noon on Monday. Haircuts will be given by incarcerated barbers in the Street Cuts barbershop inside the facility....

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (128+ words) Pioneer Press ‘Senseless act of violence,’ man’s fiancée says after assault at MN State Fair Eagan massage therapist pleads guilty to sexually assaulting four clients Inver Grove Heights boy, 12, organizes fundraiser for his mom ahead of her surgery MN State…...