Chris Bradshaw, Serial Perv, Gets Wrist Slapped for Videotaping Boys in Y...
Christopher Michael Bradshaw, recently slapped with only a 60-day jail sentence and two years on probation for videotaping two boys in a YMCA locker room, has long possessed a weakness for sexual...
View ArticleKids Say West St. Paul Dad Oscar Cruz Beat Them and Force-Fed Them Booze
Around 6 p.m. last Friday a West St. Paul mother got an unsettling phone call. Her husband, Oscar Cruz, phoned her at work saying her six-year-old daughter had mistakenly drank his booze and was sick....
View ArticleCould Derek Hexum plead guilty to the double-murder of an elderly farm couple?
A cooling wind blows at the Russell Cemetery just to the north of Redwood River's snaking waters. It's here in a modest patch of Minnesota prairie where Jim and Cathy Hively were laid to rest in the...
View ArticleThree Minnesota National Guardsmen indicted in nationwide recruitment scam
Spread thin between wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army National Guard came up with a recruiting assistance program in 2005 to beef up its ranks. Members were paid bonuses of about $2,000 for each...
View ArticleAlleged Minnesota rape victim featured in PBS documentary
Leticia Zuniga was employed cleaning Ridgedale Center the first time she was raped. Her boss, Marco Gonzalez, was her alleged assailant, abusing her several times in his basement office. Zuniga, an...
View ArticleRamsey Commissioner Jim McDonough claims abuse by Boy Scouts
A St. Paul native has filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America and its local wing, the Northern Star Council, alleging repeated sexual abuse by a scout leader. Jim McDonough, chair of the...
View ArticleWisconsin stabbing lands Screech in the slammer
Last Christmas wasn't particularly merry for Dustin Diamond. The former child actor who played Screech on '90s teen sitcom Saved by the Bell spent the holiday's waning hours holed up in a Wisconsin bar...
View ArticleMinnesota state trooper busted for speeding
It's a source of ire for law-abiding motorists when a cop car hypocritically flies by, well above the speed limit, with seemingly no emergency in sight. Granted, there are more grave abuses of power...
View ArticlePatrick Kelly won’t leave The Current host Mary Lucia alone
In early April, popular radio host Mary Lucia of 89.3 The Current let her fans in on some pretty disturbing details about her personal life. She’d been stalked and harassed by one Patrick Henry Kelly...
View ArticleChad Nelson accused of gunning a man down over a poker game
Chad Nelson and Rayontra McCall had only just met. The two were playing poker in a tournament last Thursday at Willy’s Bar in Coon Rapids when McCall’s uncle accused Nelson of cheating. Nelson...
View ArticleMinnesota prairie kid grows up to be a serial killer
Daniel Thomas Hood, who executed two Minnesotans, including an 81-year-old woman, in a cornfield in 1996, was serving a life sentence plus 25 years in a New Mexico prison, when he decided two wasn't...
View ArticleTroopers bust kid with pool in the back of his pickup truck
The best and worst part about being a teenager is rarely thinking about the consequences of our actions. Sometimes it's dangerous, sometimes it's fun. Usually it's a little bit of both. On an 80-degree...
View ArticleCops crack down on street racers terrorizing St. Paul
Saturday night at 2 a.m., Carole Hartman wakes in her bed to the explosive sputter of racecars speeding down the freeway about a mile away from her west St. Paul home. Street racers have been gunning...
View ArticleCharges: Ex-Owl City musician attempted to lure 14-year-old girl
The Associated Press is reporting that Daniel Jorgensen, a former member of popular Minnesota synth-pop band Owl City, has been charged with with criminal sexual contact and attempting to lure a...
View ArticleKarina Bourcy tries to make her shoplifting getaway by limo
It could have been a stylish getaway, had the limo driver not sold her out. Karina Bourcy was apparently in the market for a new headband and other items on Monday evening. The personal care attendant...
View ArticleHelp find the jerk attacking Minneapolis bicyclists like Mackenzie Jensen
Since July 20, a gutless assailant has been on a campaign of random, senseless violence against Minneapolis bicyclists. The man’s signature move is chucking hunks of concrete at unsuspecting bikers....
View ArticleChelsea Martinez's suicide road trip to Faribault
Chelsea Martinez struggled. She birthed her first son when she was age 16. Two more children followed in two-year increments — another son, then a baby girl. The Ohio woman married young, too. Court...
View ArticleThe life and death of Kelly Phillips, gentle soul
I. Good man gunned down Not long after dawn on August 11 of last year, the Holiday gas station in Arden Hills is nearly barren, the ground a glaze of freshly fallen rain. Josh Polos of Little Canada is...
View ArticleWhy you should never run over a kid while flying a confederate flag
Near an apartment complex in Winona, an 18-year-old driving a pickup ran into a 4-year-old boy who’d wandered into the street. He freaked out, slammed on the brakes and clambered out to make sure the...
View ArticleMystery letter to civil rights group threatens eradication of Islam
Minnesota's Council on American-Islamic Relations received a troubling missive in the mail Thursday: an empty envelope completely covered with anti-Muslim threats. It's the latest in a steady trickle...
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