Saint Paul MN

A newly opened Minneapolis shelter for homeless families filled every one of its rooms just over a month after opening its doors, housing 52 families in a converted downtown hotel just blocks from U.S. Bank Stadium. The facility, called Belonging Place, is the latest expansion from People Serving People, the state's largest provider of emergency family shelter, and its rapid fill-up signals just how much need remains even as Hennepin County shelter numbers trend downward.

A former Macalester College chemistry professor has been charged by summons after a student said she found urine on her backpack and belongings in a campus science building, causing $2,070 in damage. Paul Jerome Fischer, 55, of St. Paul, taught chemistry at the college for 25 years before resigning amid the investigation, and he is due to make his first court appearance next month.

ListenThousands of St. Paul street lights are out due to copper theft. St. Paul’s street lights are under attack again from thieves seeking valuable copper wiring. New reporting shows roughly 10 percent of the city’s street lights are out of commission. As the price of copper continues to increase, street lights could remain a target.

A Hennepin County jury awarded $84 million in a wrongful death and medical malpractice lawsuit against Fairview Health Services. Reece Devlin sought care for chest pain at M Health Fairview Clinic Uptown in 2022 and received an EKG, but no additional cardiac workup. Devlin’s wife alleged Fairview physician assistant Jeffrey...

(FOX 9) - A St. Paul man will spend 10 years in prison after prosecutors said he helped move a massive shipment of methamphetamine and cocaine through his apartment. Christopher Charles Traxler was sentenced to 120 months in prison for his role in a scheme that prosecutors described as a large-scale operation that obtained methamphetamine and cocaine for distribution.

Bloomington police say young Somali American gang members come from families with money, but investigators can't explain what drives the violence.

Twin Cities stages and parks are making room for stories about Native, Hmong and Lao communities this weekend. Catch the world premiere of Minneapolis writer Marcie Rendon’s “Sweet Revenge” at Red Eye Theater, celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a weekend of arts, sports and food trucks in Maplewood, or head to St. Paul’s East Side for the first Hmong & Lao Heritage Festival.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A man will spend more than seven years in federal prison for orchestrating an armed robbery of a marijuana package from a delivery driver in Maplewood. Eric Maurice Holliday was sentenced to 87 months in prison on one count of aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, according to U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen. Holliday pleaded guilty in June and was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz.

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Minneapolis police say an officer's gun went off after a stolen car came into contact with a squad car during a response to an armed carjacking. Minneapolis police say officers were responding to a report of an armed carjacking in the area of 31st Street West and Grand Avenue South when a stolen car came into contact with a Minneapolis Police Department squad car. During that contact, police say an officer's gun went off.

A violence interrupter formerly with 21 Days of Peace has been acquitted of charges connected to a shooting in North Minneapolis last year.