Saint Paul MN

Desmen Lee Parker, who prosecutors say killed a man in Frogtown in the early morning of April 3, 2024, has been sentenced to life in prison.

Days after police arrested seven people, three teenagers and four minors, for allegedly breaking into the religious landmark, Minneapolis police said in a written statement, "Urban exploration is dangerous and illegal" and that "their release doesn't mean the case is closed."

The 2026 election is just a week away. Many have already cast their ballot in Minnesota, and early voting could break records.

NWS warns large hail, damaging winds over 60 mph and isolated tornadoes are possible Wednesday.

MINNEAPOLIS — Strong to severe thunderstorms could develop across parts of the Upper Mississippi Valley on Wednesday evening. The highest threat is near the Minnesota and Wisconsin border. A few tornadoes are possible if supercells develop, along with damaging wind gusts and large hail. The threat is conditional, meaning storms will need enough daytime heating to turn severe.

Convicted Feeding Our Future co-conspirator Salim Said will be sentenced on Wednesday for his role in what prosecutors describe as Minnesota’s largest fraud scheme to date.

Minu Yang, 27, of St. Paul, faces one count of bringing/sending contraband into a state prison for his part in allegedly orchestrating a scheme with an inmate to smuggle drug-soaked papers into the Lino Lakes correctional facility. Charges say recorded phone calls between the inmate, the inmate's mother and Yang...

FRIDLEY, Minn. — The setup looks like an unlikely combination between an aquarium and a robotics experiment. At the bottom of a rectangular tank, 15 mussels sit nestled together, their round, dark brown shells nearly indistinguishable from smooth river rocks if not for the slightly agape crack between their shells.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has increased its reward for information leading to the arrest of a man accused of murdering a man and seriously hurting a woman in Washington over 20 years ago.

Randolph Avenue meets Shepard Road in St. Paul near the banks of the Mississippi River, hemmed in by railroad tracks still serving the industrial corridor. Beyond the intersection, nearing the river, a winding network of dirt paths and pitched tents have become a makeshift neighborhood – St. Paul’s largest encampment – for hundreds of people without permanent shelter. Posted around the site are Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) “no trespassing” signs, many of them defaced by graffiti, wa