Nicole Curtis nearly carjacked in Detroit?
Reality star Nicole Curtis had a run-in with a Detroit thief Monday night. After leaving a downtown jazz festival, the host of HGTV’s Rehab Addict and at least one other person were packing their car...
View ArticleWisconsin baby drinks two shots of vodka, father arrested for fighting
Call it one more reason to breast feed, but a formula-mixing mishap had serious consequences for a young Wisconsin family. A 20-year-old Kenosha mother was at home on Monday. Preparing to feed her...
View ArticleTeen confesses to shooting good Samaritan who tried to break up a fight
A man sat waiting for the train at the light rail station at University Avenue near Western. He was trying to get home after a night of drinking, his backpack propped between his legs on the platform....
View ArticleVikings fan beaten after Monday Night Football game [video]
There’s a lot of testosterone in the air at NFL games and not just on the field. Following the Vikings loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Monday night, an exchange between opposing fans ended in...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates assails Minnesota's black poverty and prison pipeline
In the Atlantic Magazine’s October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates examines why America disproportionately locks up its black citizens and how it affects black families. He found the answer, at least...
View ArticleEx-Wild player Clayton Stoner faces charges over big-game hunt
As the Internet slowly moves on from one international hunting scandal with Minnesota ties, another is rekindled. Two years before Walter Palmer shot Zimbabwe’s Cecil the lion prompting a wave of...
View ArticleVikings fan beating could mean buzzkill for 49er fans
Clearly the goons who pummeled a Minnesota Vikings fan after a recent game against the San Francisco 49ers weren't the smartest in the stands. But their violent outburst, captured in a viral video,...
View ArticleShakopee's getting the most attractive prison fence ever
Drab cement walls are so passé. And barbed wire and chain-link fence don’t create that warm, inviting look you want in a prison wall. Not falling into the unfashionable trappings of perimeter security,...
View ArticleMinnesota's prison overcrowding raises a dreaded name: CCA
Minnesota’s prisons are full. So full that 516 inmates have been pawned off to county jails. A legislative task force is now looking at what it’ll take to remedy the overcrowding – build a new facility...
View ArticleMan goes to meet prostitute with a trunk full of plastic and a giant empty...
Late last month, Sgt. Grant Snyder of the Minneapolis Police Department found himself sexting a 350-pound man from Maple Grove: 43-year-old Corwin Moose. The two exchanged 164 messages in 24 hours,...
View ArticleHomeless youth Don Turner chases down thief in downtown Minneapolis
With a set of First Avenue tickets in their purses, Ali Wallace and Julia MacDonald pulled up to the Loop Parking lot on Hennepin Avenue on Wednesday night. A parking attendant approached their car —...
View ArticleScout leader allegedly made St. Paul boy sniff glue before abuse
The sexual abuse lawsuits keep piling up against Boy Scouts of America and its local Northern Star Council wing. On Friday, the sixth Minnesota claim in the past four months was filed in Ramsey County...
View ArticleElk River priest Antonio Marfori accused of sexual abuse, placed on leave
While many of the sexual abuse claims plaguing the Catholic church involve dead or retired priests, the latest lawsuit names a man still wearing the collar. On Monday, Father Antonio Marfori was served...
View ArticleFawn Nadeau accused of killing her grandma's cats and fracturing her hip
There are certain things you do for grandma that you wouldn’t do for anyone else. When it’s 80 degrees and gam gam’s freezing, crank the heat. If she wants to eat dinner at 4:30 p.m., you cart her to...
View ArticleTop 5 Hate Mails of the Week: "I am very upset"
Welcome to this Friday's Top 5 Hate Mails of the Week. Motto: "Featuring the Twin Cities' Freshest Invective If You Don't Include Talk Radio." 5. Top 5 Hate Mails of the Week: "I can't believe Shitty...
View ArticleThe search for Brandon Swanson continues seven years later
It’s been seven years since Annette Swanson last saw her son. She still doesn’t know why. In the wee hours of May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson was driving home from a friend’s house in Canby, Minnesota....
View ArticleDennis Olson charged with stealing $79,000 from grandma with Alzheimer's
Perhaps it wasn’t a coincidence that Dennis Lee Olson II took “an interest in his grandmother” when she was going through a divorce, as a criminal complaint states. After splitting with her second...
View ArticleMoorhead teen Zachary St. Claire charged with killing alleged abuser
It wasn’t the first time he thought about killing Bradley Carrington. But last weekend, Zachary Daniel St. Claire snapped. The Moorhead teenager was hanging out drinking at Carrington’s trailer home in...
View ArticleTwin Cities teens learn to live with the fear of gun violence
When Kenneth Calaun was 18, his mother kicked him out of their home one night for having his girlfriend over. It was against her rules, but Calaun’s girlfriend didn’t have anywhere else to stay. The...
View ArticleGuns, meth, and murder in small-town Minnesota
Whap! Whap! Whap! The last two were overkill. Jim and Cathy Hively knew something was amiss after the first rap on their farmhouse door. It's not as if people randomly came a-knocking in Balaton, a...
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