
Shattuck-St. Mary's Teacher Charged with Sexually Assaulting Student
A teacher at a private Faribault boarding school is charged with sexually assaulting an underage male student he connected with through a dating app.
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A teacher at a private Faribault boarding school is charged with sexually assaulting an underage male student he connected with through a dating app.

A man is facing felony charges after police say a school bus aide saw him raise what appeared to be a rifle toward a bus carrying children in Faribault . The incident unfolded shortly before 7:40 a.

A 45-year-old man who was already on probation for a felony conviction with conditions barring him from possessing firearms is facing six charges after leading Northfield police on a chase last week with a loaded handgun, a switchblade knife and about 130 rounds of ammunition in his pickup. Travis Edwin Namanny , of Northfield, was charged in Rice County District Court with felony fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle, gross misdemeanor possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, obstructing legal process, possession of a switchblade knife, possession of cannabis in a motor vehicle and violation of the open bottle law, according to the criminal complaint.

Around 2:45 p.m., Northfield police investigators and officers arrived at an apartment in the 1300 block of Heritage Drive to execute the warrant.

Two deadly crashes just hours apart in southeastern Minnesota on Friday claimed the lives of three people. Another person was left with potentially life-threatening injuries.

A passenger, identified as Diane Mabel Whiteley, 75, also of Richfield, suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash, the Patrol said. She was transported to North Memorial and was wearing a seat belt at the time.

Prosecutors say Ricardo Ortiz broke into his neighbor’s basement apartment and attacked him with a knife after an argument over noise complaints.

According to court documents, Jordan Lee Schoen, 39, and Katrina Noelle Doneux, 34, were charged in Rice County District Court in connection with alleged abuse that took place between Dec. 2019 and Dec. 2021.

Emergency crews were dispatched to the 1900 block of Second Avenue NW at about 7:31 a.m. on September 13, 2024, after a report of a person down inside a manhole.

A grand jury today indicted a Rice County man on charges of 1st- and 2nd-degree murder after his roommate was found dead from a shotgun wound to the neck last month. Cody Vernon Kolstad, 32, of Morristown, was charged June 1 with 2nd-degree murder for the shooting death of Brian Daniel Stoeckel, 41,

The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating after a woman was killed after being struck in the roadway by a Rice County Sheriff’s squad early Saturday morning. According to the State Patrol, the Rice County squad car was driving without lights or sirens going eastbound on Highway 60 in Morristown wh