Not long ago, he was accused of murder. But when Eric Kaprice Richard II appears in court today, he'll be answering to a single assault charge instead.

Reynold Pratt wanted to chat. The man sitting next to him at the bar didn't. Prosecutors say Pratt didn't take that very well.

The woman known to some as "Mama Amina," who collected clothing to send to the needy in Somalia, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday, May 16.

A former pastor who was having sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl and tried to take her to Mexico was sentenced this week to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Shannon Hall sat next to her "black twin," longtime friend Monica Hines, at the Twins Care assisted living facility in Highland Park, preparing for the worst. Hall quietly explained to Karen Rainford, one of Hines' academic instructors, that the family was readying her legal affairs.

Twenty-four new police officers graduated from the St. Paul police academy Thursday, May 16, including one whose father was a St. Paul officer murdered in the line of duty almost 20 years ago.

The testimony from scores of witnesses and survivors at the recent trial of former Guatemalan military dictator Efrain Rios Montt was no doubt gripping and emotionally gut-wrenching. Infants tossed into flaming homes. Pregnant women gutted, their fetuses cut from their bodies. Elderly men and women gunned down. Women and girls gang-raped inside churches. A former government soldier maintained his orders were to kill the Indians.

West Side Lanes will host an "Irish wake" this weekend, allowing customers to "pay your respects" on the bowling center's "untimely death."

Most kids receive presents for their birthdays -- they don't give them. But one boy decided to celebrate his 7th birthday by giving the Woodbury Police Department a police dog.

Fairview Southdale Hospital is planning to spend $39 million to build a new and expanded emergency room.

A new charter school focused on environmental education is coming to a set of historic buildings overlooking Fort Snelling State Park.

Supporters of the Crosswinds East Metro Arts & Science School, a magnet school that has a mission of voluntary integration, are running out of options to keep it open.

A St. Louis man was found guilty Friday of killing a Brooklyn Park daycare provider and her elderly parents -- shooting each twice in the head at close range -- in an apparent effort to stop a molestation charge against him.

MENAHGA, Minn. -- Lighter winds Thursday were expected to help firefighters contain and snuff out the remaining hotspots from a wildfire that burned 7,100 acres in northwestern Minnesota.

Biologists have begun collaring moose calves in the second phase of an ambitious study to determine why Minnesota's moose population is declining so rapidly.

The man whose body was discovered on the shore of the St. Croix River this week was identified Thursday, May 16, as Donald D. Marklowitz Jr., 54, of Baldwin, Wis.

Two bison calves have been born at the Minnesota Zoo, the first at the Apple Valley site in 20 years.

The former Minneapolis police officer accused of soliciting young girls he met online for sex will make his first court appearance Thursday, May 16, on a new slate of charges.

Bicyclists will tackle 14-, 34- and 52-mile loops on Saturday, May 18, as part of the ALS Bike Trek Minnesota at Big Marine Park Reserve in May Township.