Crystal PD to replace its 24-year-old SWAT vehicle

The Crystal, Minn. Police Department is set to get a new SWAT vehicle to replace its current SWAT unit, a converted ambulance that is 24 years old and has over 200,000 miles on it, after a city council vote last week.

District: No bathroom cap at Crystal school

After the first day of school this week, Kelsey Roadfeldt sat down with her son to go over how things went. He's a seventh grader at FAIR School in Crystal, a magnet school in the Robbinsdale school district with a focus on fine arts. She was shocked when her son mentioned a new policy that's being implemented.

Minnesota 8th-grade teacher arrested on sexual abuse charges

A 28-year-old Richfield man who works as an eighth-grade teacher has been arrested on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct for allegedly repeatedly abusing his two younger cousins in the basement of a family home over a period of several years.