Minneapolis police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy near the intersection of Aldrich Ave. N. & 8th Ave. N. late Wednesday afternoon. Police arrived and found the boy with a gunshot wound to the chest, initial EMS dispatches detail, and he was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.

Eden Prairie Police attempted to stop the vehicle, but the original reason for the stop is unknown at this time. The vehicle traveled northbound before the officer lost sight of the vehicle on Baker Rd near I-494 in Minnetonka but found the vehicle crashed just past I-494.

Emergency crews were called to a strip mall in Vadnais Heights after a vehicle crashed through the front of a building, resulting in heavy damage to one of the stores in the complex.

Ramsey County Sheriff’s Deputies recovered a body from the Mississippi River on Friday afternoon near Crosby Farm Regional Park.

Multiple serious injuries were reported after a suspect driving a stolen vehicle fled from Ramsey County deputies before crashing into a yard late Friday afternoon. Deputies initiated a pursuit on Larpenteur Ave. near White Bear Ave. after learning the vehicle was previously stolen. The driver sped off while deputies pursued and followed the vehicle from a distance.

Detectives are investigating a fourth scene after officers found a woman dead in her apartment on the 300 block of Ramsey Street in addition to three others killed over the weekend in unrelated shootings. Officers were called to the scene around 11:30 on Monday morning, but further details are limited.

A man is dead after being shot around 10:40 p.m. Monday on the 800 block of Albemarle Street, near Lewis Park in Saint Paul, police confirmed. When police arrived on the original report of shots fired in the area, they found a man who was lying on the ground with a gunshot wound.

On August 16 just before 3 p.m., Emily police, first responders, fire, North Memorial EMS, North Memorial Air Care and Crow Wing County sheriff’s deputies responded to the Ruth Lake Access in Emily for an unconscious 66-year-old male who was pulled from the water.

An Illinois man was sentenced Tuesday to more than eight years in prison and three years of supervised release for setting fire to a cell phone store in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd.

Eric Reinbold, 44, was seen on a law enforcement trail camera near his parents’ property in Red Lake County late Tuesday night. The camera had been set up in a wooded area off of County Road 1, in the area that had been searched by authorities in the days after his disappearance.

A St. Louis County Sheriff's Office squad car was stolen outside of the county courthouse in Virginia, Minn., around 10:20 p.m. Monday after it was left unlocked and running, authorities said.

Saint Paul police are investigating the city’s 16th homicide of 2021 after a gunfight outside an east side apartment complex left a man dead late Monday afternoon.

An inmate that was serving time at the Stillwater Correctional Institution was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he sexually assaulted a prison guard in June of 2019. Inmate Mal Pauliet Tharjiath, 28, was convicted of 4th-degree criminal sexual conduct and 4th-degree assault.

Shakopee police are investigating a homicide after a woman was brutally murdered mid-afternoon Wednesday on a residential street not far from downtown.

Orono police say the 51-year-old man who was behind the wheel of a Bentley when it crashed Saturday night, killing two young men, has turned himself in on charges of criminal vehicular homicide this afternoon.

Authorities have arrested a suspect in relation to a fatal shooting Friday night at a Burnsville motel that left one victim dead.

A three-year-old boy and an adult male believed to be in his 30s were both struck by gunfire during a shootout around 9:45 p.m. on the 3300 block of Emerson Ave. N. Friday. The boy was rushed to the hospital with a broken femur and the man transported by ambulance with a gunshot to the shoulder. Both are expected to survive.

The man who was shot and killed by an Olivia, Minn., police officer after an altercation in an alley early Sunday morning has been identified by the Minnesota BCA and a shotgun was recovered at the scene, the agency said.

Roseville fire crews were kept busy on July 4th, responding to two house fires as well as many grass and garbage can fires in the evening hours and overnight.

One person died at the scene of a collision between a passenger vehicle and a light-rail train in St. Paul late Sunday afternoon. A male passenger in the vehicle was extricated and transported to the hospital with critical injuries, police said.