Religious leaders and black community activists gathered outside Minneapolis City Hall to call for an independent investigation of racially charged incidents involving police.
A South St. Paul police sergeant is accused of driving drunk and then fleeing police. According to charges filed Friday, a field-sobriety test showed Cory Slifko had a blood-alcohol level that was twice the legal limit shortly after he was arrested about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Washington County authorities say a device that was left in a bank by a robbery suspect appears to be inactive, but they're maintaining an evacuation of a two-block radius as a precaution.
Minneapolis police are searching for suspects after a man was shot to death outside a party. Officers were called just after 4:30 a.m. Saturday to the shooting outside a home in northeast Minneapolis.
The Cold Spring and Richmond communities will be looking at the needs of their joint police department. Last (Tuesday) night the Cold Spring city council approved forming a hiring committee to reassess the city's needs.
A prosecutor has declined to bring felony charges against two St. Paul police officers after an arrest captured on video shows one of them kicking a man.