A Minnesota pastor is charged with possessing child pornography. Forty-seven-year-old William Helker made his first appearance Friday in Pine County court.
Pine County sheriff's officials say a man shot and wounded his ex-wife at her home before killing himself after deputies tried talking him out of suicide. Chief Deputy Steven Blackwell says the woman was able to text her neighbor for help after she was shot in the chest and barricaded herself in the bathroom of her Brook Park house about 9 p.m. Wednesday.
An 11-year-old girl is hospitalized after authorities say her father accidentally shot her in the head in east-central Minnesota. Pine County Sheriff Robin Cole says the man was doing target practice with a .22-caliber pistol outside his home near Braham when the gun jammed.