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ListenAs Minnesota cities push for local control of assault weapons, Colorado cities offer a case study. Under state law, Minnesota cities can’t regulate guns. St. Paul city leaders today are introducing an assault weapon ban anyway. The ordinance would also ban large-capacity magazines and binary triggers that...

Timmerman said city auditors have reached out to MPD leaders more than a dozen times to meet without success.

HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn. — The Hennepin County Jail is fully staffed for the first time in years, allowing the state to lift some restrictions previously placed on the facility. Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt credited community outreach, a streamlined onboarding process and new training programs for helping...

A Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis' Tangletown neighborhood was the damaged during a break-in last week, shortly after the business announced its temporary closure. Karen and Cristian de Leon said that their El Sazon Cocina & Tragos space was recently victimized by a burglar who destroyed the restaurant's camera...

A fundraising campaign has been launched to help a Minneapolis Montessori school recover from the vandalism of its playground. The nonprofit Heartwood Montessori School in Northeast Minneapolis says its playground was damaged over the weekend of October 4, sharing a picture showing that a playhouse was broken and...

Police in Isle, Minnesota, say they're searching for a missing 17-year-old who may be in the Twin Cities metro area.

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (FOX 9) - Brooklyn Park police are searching for a missing 10-year-old boy Wednesday night. Police say the boy, who they did not name, went missing in the area of Single Creek Drive and Hampshire Avenue in Brooklyn Park. The boy was last wearing green pants, a...

A 30-year-old Fridley man has been charged after he allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at a Minneapolis ice cream shop in two separate incidents. Firomsa Ahmed Umar faces two counts of first-degree arson in connection with back-to-back attacks on Fletcher's Ice Cream & Cafe on Sunday night and Monday afternoon. Umar...

In Minneapolis, the call for transparency and accountability within the police department is intensifying as city officials face scrutiny over their handling of high-profile cases. According to a social media post by Jason Chavez, the City Council member representing Ward 9, the investigations into the death of...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Hennepin County jail is fully staffed for the first time since 2020, and the state of Minnesota has lifted restrictions on its incarcerated population. That progress is expected to save the county money on overtime staff and the housing of incarcerated people at other jails, which the county has...