Minnesota crime news

A Brooklyn Park pastor at the center of a years-long wage dispute with Hennepin County is no longer facing criminal charges.

A Minnesota man who tried to shift political power by killing Democratic lawmakers will spend the rest of his life in federal prison.

A shooting at Yancey Park on Wednesday, July 22, has left the Edina community shaken and city officials urging residents to share any information that could help investigators.

A Maplewood woman has been charged in connection to the stabbing of a police officer on Tuesday, saying in part that, "she believed he was a robot."

Two more people were arrested and charged in connection to a July 18 homicide in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Jennifer Lowery, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas, is accused of leaving the scene of a crash in Houston.

A bill sponsored by the victim of an assassination attempt in June 2025 will make impersonating a police officer punishable by a felony in Minnesota beginning Aug. 1.

Former Montana state Senate President Jason Ellsworth was convicted this week of awarding no-bid contracts to a company with ties to a long-time business associate.

A motorcycle rider died after a crash with a vehicle at a Brooklyn Park intersection on Wednesday.

With the federal case now complete, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty says her office will now move forward with state charges against Vance Boelter for the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers last year.

Video captured a Missouri man running across a bridge and diving headfirst off of it after he led deputies on a chase.

Human remains discovered inside a chest freezer at a Juneau, Alaska, home are believed to belong to an adult male family member, according to police.

The age to legally purchase, and penalties associated with, the intoxicating substance kratom in Minnesota will rise in Minnesota beginning on Aug. 1.

New data collected from major cities across the nation show that homicides have dropped sharply in the first half of 2026, part of a continuing three-year decline in violent crime. 

Fewer U.S. high school seniors are bringing firearms to school than three decades ago, according to a new national study.

Four people have been arrested in connection with a deadly crash last week that left a 13-year-old boy dead in Farmington, Minn.

FBI Director Kash Patel says the four-day delay before his agency was allowed into the Nancy Guthrie abduction case likely cost investigators crucial Nest camera footage that was on the verge of permanent deletion.