BEMIDJI, Minn.-A former assistant principal at Bemidji Middle School has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after pretending to be a teenage boy online and having sexual conversations with students. Brandon Mark Bjerknes, 35, had been federally charged with producing and distributing child pornography and attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. According to a personnel data request with the…
BIWABIK, Minn.-Two men are in jail today after a man allegedly shot at another man from a second story window at the Northland Apartments in Biwabik yesterday. It all happened about 5 p.m. and when police arrived, they located the shooter and took him into custody without incident. He could be facing charges of second-degree assault and unlawful discharge of…
Level 3 offender, Robert Alan Keogh, changed addresses within the city of Hibbing, MN. HIBBING, Minn. – The Hibbing Police Department will be conducting a Community Notification Level Three Predatory Offender Meeting on February 8, 2018 at 6:00 PM in the Little Theater located on the lower level of the Hibbing Memorial Building, which is at 400 E 23rd St,…
DEER RIVER, Minn.-Two brothers have been arrested for allegedly robbing a Dollar General Store in Deer River Wednesday. Norman Wayne Cutbank III, 22, of Duluth and Montana Oshki Ayaabe Cutbank, 18, of Cass Lake, are charged with one count of aggravated robbery in the first degree. According to the criminal complaint: “The employees stated that the one of the suspects…
FARGO, N.D.-A North Dakota woman who admitted killing a pregnant neighbor and cutting the baby from the womb while the mother was still alive has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brooke Crews pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy to commit kidnapping, conspiracy to commit murder and lying to law officers in the August death…
Photo: Damian DovarganesLOS ANGELES (AP) — Two students were shot and wounded, one critically, inside a Los Angeles middle school classroom Thursday morning and police arrested a female student believed to be 12 years old, authorities said. A 15-year-old boy hit in the head was transported to a trauma center in critical but stable condition, according to fire department spokesman…
DEER RIVER, Minn.-The Itasca County Sheriff’s Office is looking for two suspects allegedly involved in an armed robbery at the Dollar General in Deer River last night. It happened at about 8:30 p.m. at 307 Main Ave. W. The sheriff’s office needs your help in identifying two men in that area at that time, who may be involved in the…
(AP Photo/Steven Senne) BOSTON (AP) — That ordinary bottle of juice delivered to your doorstep will set you back at least $55. But the bag of marijuana that comes with it? On the house. Retail marijuana stores are months away from opening in Massachusetts, but some companies have been quietly operating for more than a year, selling and delivering marijuana…
WRENSHALL, Minn. – A Wrenshall man who kidnapped and carved the word “snitch” into his victim’s body is sentenced for the crime. The Carlton County Attorney’s Office says a judge sentenced 21-year-old Scott Lindgren to 50 months in prison. Lindgren pleaded guilty to tying a 17-year-old boy to a chair, beating him and carving the word “snitch” into the boy’s…
Duluth, Minn. – An attempted murder charge is now filed against Willie Nicholson, 23, of Duluth. Nicholson is accused of stabbing a man, who authorities say he didn’t know, more than a dozen times. According to the complaint, Nicholson broke in the victim’s apartment to find a place to sleep before the attack unfolded. Nicholson entered the apartment building at…
UPDATE: Investigators have developed new information that puts Tawhna Pringle in the Babbitt area on January 11, 2018. Authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating Tawhna or her vehicle and would like people to check their properties or trails for the vehicle or signs of someone seeking shelter. If you have any information please contact the Grand Rapids…
DULUTH, Minn. – Charges were pending Monday night against a man accused of randomly stabbing another man in West Duluth multiple times while he was sleeping in his bedroom. The attack happened 6 a.m. Saturday inside an apartment building at 4731 Grand Avenue. Authorities believe the 23-year-old suspect went through an unlocked door before stabbing the 20-year-old victim at least…
DULUTH, Minn. — The culture of drinking and driving in Minnesota has changed since the 1980s when more than 250 people died every year in alcohol-related crashes. Since 2010, that number now averages around 127 deaths every year. But authorities stress even one death a year is far too many. FOX 21’s Dan Hanger gives you a look inside the Duluth…
DULUTH, Minn. – Early this morning, a man was stabbed at least twelve times in his home. Duluth Police believe the suspect entered the victim’s home through an unlocked door and began stabbing him while he was sleeping in bed. It’s believed that the suspect randomly entered the victim’s residence and the suspect and victim did not know each other….
BENTON, Ky. (AP) – Gov. Matt Bevin says two people have been killed and 19 injured in a shooting at a high school in southwest Kentucky. Of the 19 injured, Bevin says 14 of those were gunshot wounds. Bevin also said the suspect in the Tuesday morning shooting at Marshall County High School is a 15-year-old male student who will…
DULUTH, Minn. – Fifteen new officers were sworn in to the Duluth Police Department today. Each officer had their badge pinned on by a loved one. For the new officers, this marked the end of years of training and preparation and five weeks in the Police Academy. “Now we’re going to be going with our senior officers on some training…
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A California couple tortured a dozen of their children for years, starving them to the point that their growth was stunted, chaining them to their beds for up to months, preventing them from using the toilet at times and forbidding them from showering more than once a year, a prosecutor said Thursday. Frederic J. Brown/Pool Photo…
LENROOT TOWNSHIP, Wis.-A 39-year-old man was arrested early Saturday morning after allegedly firing shots during a domestic disturbance in Lenroot, Wis. The incident happened at about 1 a.m. at a residence on Valley Road. A 40-year-old female victim was located at a residence away from the location where it allegedly occurred. The victim said she was physically assaulted by a…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – A mother of three from Superior is looking for your help to make as many “Little Free Libraries” as possible for the community after her family’s free library was set on fire. The fire happened late Saturday night outside Laura Selden’s home on Birch Avenue. Selden, who is a former MIX 108 morning radio personality and now…
DULUTH, Minn – Three protesters were arrested today in Duluth after making their voices heard at Wells Fargo bank downtown. The protesters are against financial contributions large banks like Wells Fargo are making to oil companies such as Enbridge. Authorities tell us roughly 30 protesters were on site. The three individuals arrested had chained themselves to doors and a…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Human Services Commissioner Emily Piper says she’ll appeal a judicial panel’s approval of the conditional release of a serial rapist from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program. Thomas R. Duvall has spent the past 30 years locked up for the violent rapes of teenage girls in the 1970s and 1980s. The Star Tribune reports that a three-judge panel…
PLYMOUTH, Minn. (AP) – Police are investigating a death in a Twin Cities suburb. Authorities say someone at the Stoneleigh at the Reserve apartment complex in Plymouth called 911 shortly after midnight Tuesday. When officers arrived they found one person dead. Police did not say if the victim was a man or a woman. Plymouth Police Chief Mike Goldstein says…
TWO HARBORS, Minn. – January is Human Trafficking and Sex Trafficking Awareness Month. Monday, in Two Harbors, a vigil was held honoring the victims of sex trafficking. The Lake County Sex Trafficking Task Force held their annual vigil in memory of those who lost their lives to sex exploitation and in solidarity with those who continue to be victimized. The…
DULUTH, Minn. – The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office would like to inform citizens of a current phone scam. The Sheriff’s Office has received multiple, recent reports of callers posing as law enforcement telling parties that they “have missed federal jury duty and have arrest warrants.” The caller goes on to state that the person can clear up warrants by…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (KMSP) – A mother from St. Cloud whose two daughters were mysteriously murdered in 1974 now believes she knows who killed them. The two girls, 15-year-old Mary Reker and her 12-year-old sister Susie, disappeared while out shopping for school supplies on Labor Day in 1974, their bodies discovered riddled with stab wounds in a quarry outside St. Cloud. Despite the efforts of…
DULUTH, Minn. – Police Chief Mike Tusken is starting off the new year talking to East Hillside residents. This was the third annual “Chillin’ With the Chief” potluck at the East Hillside Community Club. It was Chief Tusken’s first community engagement event of 2018. At the potluck, residents could talk with the chief and other Duluth police officers in a…
RACINE, Wis. (AP) – Authorities are investigating a New Year’s shooting at a bar in Racine. Police responded to Curmudgeon’s bar shortly before 2 a.m. Monday. Bar employee Jeff Dandeneau told WITI-TV that bar patrons were celebrating the new year when “everything broke loose.” The man who was shot was taken to a hospital and reported in stable condition. No…
ROBBINSDALE, Minn. (AP) – A hospital emergency room in the Twin Cities area was put on a temporary lockdown over the weekend after a self-inflicted shooting in a restroom. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the incident happened Saturday night at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale. Authorities did not immediately release details on the condition of the shooter, or…
GILBERT, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has identified the officers involved in a shooting that took place in Gilbert on Dec. 22. According to the Minnesota DPS BCA preliminary investigation, Deputy Derrick Deutsch with the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office and Officer Joseph Bradach of the Gilbert Police Department were looking for an…
SUPERIOR, Wis. – Superior Police are investigating a robbery that took place in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 24 around 3:45 a.m at the Holiday gas station at 21st and Tower Avenue. According to police, officers were dispatched to a silent alarm Holiday. The clerk told police he was mopping the floor when the suspect entered. The pointed…
GILBERT, Minn. – The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the person who died during an officer involved shooting incident on Friday, December 22, in the city of Gilbert. Jeffrey John Golnick, 40, of Chaska, died of gunshot injuries. Additional information, including the names of officers who discharged their weapons, will be available once initial interviews with the officers and any…
GILBERT, Minn.-There has been a report of a shooting in Gilbert near Michigan Avenue. A heavy police presence is there. As of now, we don’t know the extent of any injuries in the incident. A neighbor we spoke to said they were asked to stay in their home for about 40 minutes at 1:30 p.m. in that area. Seven to…
DULUTH, Minn.-A stabbing at 1:50 a.m. this morning on the 3700 block of Grand Avenue, left one man with non-life threatening injuries. When police arrived, they found an adult male with the stab wound. A juvenile suspect was arrested and is being lodged at Arrowhead Juvenile Center on charges related to the incident. The suspect and victim were known to…
Anissa Weier passes a note to defense attorney Joseph Smith Jr.. during closing argument sin her case before Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via AP) WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) – One of two Wisconsin girls who tried to kill a classmate to win favor with a fictional horror character named Slender…
LENROOT, Wis. – According to the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office, deputies made a traffic stop of a vehicle on Company Lake Road in the Town of Lenroot just after 2:00 a.m. on Dec. 14. The traffic stop was conducted as a result of an investigation into the sale and distribution of meth in Sawyer County. K-9 Officer Oscar did a…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin man who stole a cache of firearms from a gun shop and sent a rambling anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. Joseph Jakubowski was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge William Conley. Jakubowski asked the judge to either free him or execute him, saying in…
Payton Leutner, 2017 (FOX 6) WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) – The mother of the Wisconsin girl who survived a stabbing by her classmates aiming to please the fictional horror character Slender Man says her daughter slept with scissors under her pillow after the attack. WISN-TV reports Stacie Leutner also revealed in a victim impact statement that the family didn’t object to…
Joseph Jakubowski MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin man who stole a cache of firearms from a gun shop and sent a rambling anti-government manifest to the White House before going on the run wants to be set free or sentenced to death. Joseph Jakubowski was convicted in September of two charges stemming from the April 4 theft. He faces…
Monalisa Perez HALSTAD, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting her boyfriend in a videotaped stunt they planned to post to YouTube. Monalisa Perez, 20, pleaded guilty last week to second-degree manslaughter in the June death of 22-year-old Pedro Ruiz III, The Star Tribune reported. Perez has two young children with Ruiz. Perez told investigators…
MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – An officer-involved shooting at Minneapolis City Hall is under investigation after police shot and wounded a man inside an interview room. The shooting happened just before 5 p.m. inside Room 108, which is home to multiple Minneapolis Police Department investigative units. Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said the person investigators were interviewing was left alone in an interview…
DULUTH, Minn.-Police responded to reports of shots fired just after 1 p.m. earlier today on the 200 block of North Second Avenue East. The person who reported it said someone fired shots at their door. No one was injured in the incident. The suspect is being described at a white male who is five-foot, eight inches with a slight build…
DULUTH, Minn.- Elderly Americans the ages 65 and up are estimated to be frauded out of nearly three billion dollars each year. To prevent this from happening to Northlanders, Hang Up On Fraud is the key message, the Minnesota Commerce Department wants Northlanders to remember. With families gathering for the holidays we tend to see our loved ones more giving…
DULUTH, Minn.- The Duluth Police Chief is pulling back on his plans to purchase $83,000 worth of riot gear. This comes after concerned citizens spoke out at last night’s city council meeting against the protective gear. Chief Mike Tusken heard those concerns has had a change in heart releasing the following statement. “I want to write to you today in…
DULUTH, Minn. – A new emergency communication tool in the Northland is allowing residents and the public to be notified of emergency situations right on their phones. The new tool, Northland Alert, has two parts. The first is an Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), which allows an emergency text message to be sent to all cell phones…
(St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office) FAYAL TWP, Minn. – Members of the Lake Superior Drug and Violent Crime Task Force executed a search warrant on December 8, in the 3600 block of Highway 53 in Fayal Township, according to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office. During the search, investigators located 36 pounds of high-grade marijuana inside of the residence, along…
Brooke CrewsFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Brooke Crews, charged in the murder and kidnapping of Savanna Greywind, changed her plea to guilty. In Cass County Court this morning she plead guilty to all charges. Crews, 38, of Fargo, originally plead not guilty to conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping and giving false information to officers. Crews is expected to be sentenced on Tuesday, January…
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Minn.- The St. Louis County Sheriff department welcomed a four legged officer to the force. The canine is named Wesson and he’s officially ready to help out in the streets. Officers said the new team member makes the force fully staffed. Wesson is a huge asset, one sergeant explained to FOX21 how dogs have a better sense…
SEATTLE (AP) – A former Amazon analyst has been sentenced to six months in prison and a $2,500 fine after admitting he tipped off a college friend to details about the company’s upcoming first-quarter earnings report in spring 2015. Brett D. Kennedy was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to a federal insider trading charge in September. Prosecutors said his former…
Lance Kendricks (TMZ) MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) – Green Bay Packers tight end Lance Kendricks has been charged with possession of marijuana stemming from a traffic stop in early September. The Journal Sentinel reports the 29-year-old Kendricks was stopped for speeding in the early morning hours of Sept. 2. Though he only received a warning for driving 81 mph in a…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Gov. Scott Walker has signed a Republican bill that makes soliciting sexually explicit photographs from children illegal. Under the bill, anyone between the ages of 18 and 21 who solicits photos from a child no more than three years younger would be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months in jail and $10,000…
