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Statewide Missing Person Alert For 17-Year-Old Minnesota Girl
Sartell, MN (KROC-AM News) - A statewide alert has been issued for a missing Minnesota teenager. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says 17-year-old Kaydence Johnson has been missing for 30 days and is now considered and endangered missing person. The alert says she and another teenage girl ran away from a residence in the City of Sartell on June 22.
West St. Paul City Council Recap: July 22, 2024
Thanks to Dakota County for their support. The West St. Paul City Council discussed the stipulations for cannabis sales and production within city limits, explored possibilities for moving utilities underground at the Smith and Dodd intersection, and passed plan approvals and alterations for the townhome development on Monday. Adult Use...
Minneapolis City Council Approves Police Pay Raises and Reforms Amid Community Debate
In a move drawing mixed reactions from the Minneapolis community, the City Council has approved substantial pay raises and various reforms for its police department, following negotiations that stretched out for nearly one year. The collective bargaining deal with the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis (POFM) was ratified by an 8-4 margin, and it provisions a 21.7 percent salary increase for officers over the next three years—a boost that will position them among the best-paid law enforcement personnel in Minnesota by 2025, according to a city release.
Civil War vet John Wesley Harper honored with headstone 104 years later
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Military funerals are about honoring service with a final salute. After 104 years, a Black soldier for the Union Army in the Civil War finally had his. In an unmarked grave since his death in 1920 in Minneapolis, FOX 9’s Kelcey Carlson joined his family to apply for a military headstone. On June 23, descendants gathered for a service.
Man, 59, pleads guilty to bombing Minneapolis hair salon
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to setting off a bomb in a hair salon.The 59-year-old man was facing one count of maliciously using explosives to damage and destroy a Minneapolis-based property engaged in interstate commerce. Charges say that the man placed an explosive device on the window of the salon in Minneapolis' Bryn Mawr neighborhood in November of 2022. He fled the scene after the device detonated.Then roughly a year later in November of 2023, surveillance video captured him vandalizing the same salon, charges say. Documents say he threw a landscaping rock through the window and fled the scene. Law enforcement found DNA evidence that connected him to both incidents.
Gophers: 5 defensive players that need to step up in 2024
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The University of Minnesota football team is about to start fall camp, but first, the Gophers head to Big Ten Media Days in Indianapolis. They’re projected to take 12th in the new 18-team conference, and there’s not a ton of buzz around the program entering 2024 after going 6-7 last year. They’ll need more from their defense this year to improve on that record. They allowed more than 26 points per game last season.
Brooklyn Park PD handles another dog attack call
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (FOX 9) - Days after a boy was seriously hurt in a dog attack, Brooklyn Park police say they responded to another 911 call involving a dog harming a child on Tuesday. This time, officers responded around 4:40 p.m. for a dog that had injured a 7-year-old...
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