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Authorities say five family members found dead in their suburban Minneapolis home this week died in what they refer to as a murder-suicide. The Hennepin County medical examiner's office issued statements Saturday saying that 45-year-old Brian Short died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound to his head.

Police say five family members, including three children, are dead in a home in a Minneapolis suburb in an apparent murder-suicide. South Lake Minnetonka Police Chief Mike Siitari says police were called to the home Thursday to check on the family and found the bodies.

A St. Cloud man has been found competent to stand trial in the murder of his mother, just months after he was found incompetent. Fifty-three-year-old Dean Friese has undergone a handful mental competency examinations with mixed results. In his latest ruling, Stearns County Judge Frank Kundrat accepted a psychologist's findings that Friese can understand the trial process and work with his lawyers.

A 17-year-old St. Cloud boy has been formally sentenced in a stabbing which killed a man in June. Muhiyadin Mohammed Hassan had earlier pleaded guilty to second degree unintentional murder in the death of 20-year-old Davee Devose.

A second defendant charged in the death of Jamie Wylie has pleaded guilty. Benton County Attorney Philip Miller says 27-year-old Travis McKinney has pleaded guilty to an amended charge of Aiding and Offender in the shooting death of Wylie.

A 17-year-old St. Cloud boy pleaded guilty to stabbing and killing a man in June after an argument broke out in the street.

Faribault police have arrested a 39-year-old man who is suspected of killing an Ohio woman, after her body was found in a park.

Minneapolis police say a suspect is under arrest in the fatal shootings of two men near an intersection last weekend.

Authorities are treating the shooting deaths of a husband and wife at a home in Lac qui Parle (LAK'-ah PAR'-el) County as a murder-suicide.

St. Paul police have arrested a 34-year-old woman in the stabbing death of her boyfriend.