Tired of the fighting and police calls, Louie's Bar throws in the towel
Louie's Bar is finally done fighting. For months the longtime St. Paul dive tried to shake a rough crowd that came to occupy the old Payne Avenue haunt. In an extreme move, the East Side tavern made...
View ArticleTwo men shot in possible hate crime near U of M campus
Gunfire erupted early Wednesday morning only a block from the University of Minnesota campus. At 2:20 a.m., Minneapolis and university police arrived at the scene near 14th Avenue SE and 6th Street SE,...
View ArticleMissing teens Jordan Krolak, Casey Danielson found safe after runaway attempt
Two Minnesota teens spent almost a month on the lam after fleeing a juvenile detention facility in Bemidji. Jordan Krolak and Casey Danielson were participating in a community event outside the...
View ArticleF-bombs, bullying, and threats are killing summer at Thomas Beach
Jerks leave presents. The unwanted charity usually starts around the Fourth of July holiday. Visitors to Thomas Beach on the south side of Lake Calhoun forsake garbage cans, preferring to dump vodka...
View ArticleProtesters surround governor's mansion after Philando Castile is killed by...
Wednesday night at about 9 p.m., police pulled over a black couple driving near Larpenteur Avenue and Fry Street in Falcon Heights. The car had a broken taillight. The stop ended with the passenger,...
View ArticlePhilando Castile supporters, cops clash in tense protest that shuts down I-94...
The vast majority of the protesters demonstrating in the name of justice for Philando Castile on Saturday night were peaceful A handful of people on the scene weren't: A total of 21 police officers...
View ArticleCops with Google, common sense: Viral story about 'Arab men' kidnapping...
"This story needs to go viral," begins the Facebook post. And voila, it did. Making that explicit request isn't enough to jolt the internet to action. What you're saying needs to have something more to...
View ArticleMinneapolis cops stage walk-out at Lynx game, Bob Kroll slams 'pathetic'...
The Minneapolis Police Department could be sitting this one out. Philando Castile was killed in Falcon Heights by Jeronimo Yanez, an officer with the St. Anthony Police Department. Over the weekend,...
View ArticleMayor Betsy Hodges calls out Bob Kroll for 'jackass remarks' on Minnesota Lynx
Lt. Bob Kroll is the controversial head of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, the city's police union. In that capacity, Kroll represents some 800 members. But not the city of Minneapolis....
View ArticleCharges: Three men killed a stranger, looted the body, got McDonald’s
Early Thursday morning just before 5 a.m., 52-year-old James Salter was walking down Lake Street, minding his own business, when he was hit in the chest and neck with a shotgun blast. When police found...
View ArticleLawyer: Peaceful I-94 protesters being 'scapegoated' for violence from...
The St. Paul Police Department reported 52 arrests made on or near I-94 early Sunday morning, as hundreds of protesters came together in support of Philando Castile, the black man killed by a police...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter plans 'shut down' protest at Rosedale Center mall
Not content to lean on leaders, Black Lives Matter and other protesters are trying to pressure the broader public in the Twin Cities into taking sides and taking action against police violence. Last...
View ArticleUnity Autoworks is fixing taillights for free in honor of Philando Castile
On the night he was shot and killed by a St. Anthony police officer, the story went that Philando Castile was pulled over for driving with a busted taillight. That story was told calmly, and memorably,...
View ArticleMinneapolis police investigating Facebook threat 'looking forward' to Baton...
Police forces across America are on high alert after three cops were killed in Baton Rogue, Louisiana, in what looks like the second planned assassination of uniformed officers in as many weeks....
View ArticlePolice chief Janee Harteau, in leaked email, tells Bob Kroll to quit wearing...
Much as she might like to, Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau can't really tell Lt. Bob Kroll what to do. Or say; or, given, Kroll's apparent love for communicating with the press, to stop saying....
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