Minneapolis officer found guilty of assaulting unconscious woman A jury of eight women and four men say Minneapolis police officer Thomas Tichich, 49, is guilty of third degree criminal sexual conduct. Tichich also was convicted of attempted sexual assault. He will be held in custody while he awaits sentencing. He faces a possible sentence of 48 months. Forecast | Updraft | NewsCut
An explosion rocked a refinery in northwestern Wisconsin on Thursday, injuring at least 11 people, forcing the evacuation of homes, schools and a hospital, and sending a plume of noxious smoke into the air.
A light rail train operator went through a stop signal and struck a car, killing the 29-year-old driver and injuring his passenger at a University Avenue intersection in St. Paul in July, according to records just released by Metro Transit.
A University of Minnesota study found 8-year-old children in Hennepin and Ramsey counties had been diagnosed with autism at a rate of 2.4 percent in 2014. That's higher than the national average of 1.7 percent according to similar new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bill Cosby was convicted Thursday of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, completing the spectacular late-life downfall of a comedian who broke racial barriers in Hollywood on his way to TV superstardom as America's Dad.
Carl Crawford admitted to feeling "a million emotions" before boarding a bus Tuesday evening. He's part of a group of nearly three dozen heading from Duluth, Minn., to Montgomery, Ala., to attend the opening day of a new national memorial that highlights the history of lynching in the United States.
President Trump said Thursday that his personal attorney Michael Cohen represented him "with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal," after previously denying any knowledge of a payment Cohen made to the porn actress alleging an affair with Trump.
South Koreans have painstakingly planned out the details ahead of North Korea's Kim Jong Un and South Korea's Moon Jae-in's summit at their shared border Friday, the culmination of a flurry of diplomacy over the past few months.
We have arrived at Minnesota's final four most-loved lakes, as decided by MPR News readers in thousands of votes over the past three weeks. After Lake Superior beat out Lake Pepin, it's now Kabetogama against Rainy. The winner will face Superior over the weekend. Cast your vote now!
