Crime

Accidents WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department investigated a crash that blocked traffic and was reported at 7:19 a.m. Wednesday. WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department investigated a crash reported at 3:02 p.m. Wednesday from the intersection of Clary Street...

BURKE, S.D. — In their opening remarks Wednesday, prosecutors suggested Russell Bertram killed his girlfriend to collect more than $900,000 in insurance money and was jealous over an unborn child that wasn’t his. Russell Bertram, 64, of Sioux Falls, appeared at the Gregory County...

Daniel Rassier, a man wrongly suspected of abducting Jacob Wetterling, says he plans to sue law enforcement authorities for how they treated him. A Wetterling family neighbor and St. Joseph, music teacher, Rassier says police treated him like a murderer for years before another...

Accidents MOUNTAIN LAKE -- The Minnesota State Patrol investigated a crash reported at 7:15 a.m. Sunday from the intersection of Minnesota 60 and Cottonwood County 1. A 2004 Chevy Venture operated by Deborah A. Elliot, 69, was traveling eastbound on Minnesota, and a 2016 Chevy Sedan...

Accidents WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department investigated a minor crash reported at 11:43 a.m. Saturday from the intersection of Humiston Avenue and Interstate 90. WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department investigated a hit-and-run crash reported at 5:45 p.m....

Accidents WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department investigated a hit-and-run crash reported at 11:07 a.m. Wednesday from Minnesota 60. Ambulance WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Ambulance was dispatched at 1:41 p.m. Wednesday to the 1200 block of Douglas Avenue. WORTHINGTON...

MAPLEWOOD, Minn. -- It started with a Maplewood woman responding to an online advertisement for computer repairs in early July. For a couple hundred bucks, the company promised to fix her computer and better protect it from cyberattacks. The woman bit and coughed up $249 for the service....

Accidents WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department investigated a crash reported at 5:56 p.m. Monday from the 1600 block of Darling Drive. RUSHMORE -- The Nobles County Sheriff’s Office investigated a garbage truck/semi accident reported at 7:52 a.m. Tuesday from 220th Street....

Accidents WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department received a report of a hit-and-run at 4:25 p.m. Friday. A juvenile female said she had been struck by a car that left the scene. WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department investigated a hit-and-run crash reported at...

BEMIDJI, Minn. -- One month after a jury found him guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, Brian Keith Jourdain once again stood in front of Judge Paul Benshoof, this time to find out how long he would spend in prison. The criminal complaint against Jourdain, which described...

Accidents ADRIAN -- The Nobles County Sheriff’s Office investigated a car-vs.deer crash reported at 5:06 p.m. Thursday from the intersection of 260th Street and Birkett Avenue. WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Police Department received a report of a hit-and-run crash at 8:24 p.m....

Ambulance WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Ambulance was dispatched at 11:34 p.m. Tuesday to North Spring Avenue for a male who was having difficulty breathing. WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Ambulance was dispatched at 2:03 p.m. Wednesday to the 2100 block of Nobles Street. WORTHINGTON...

WILLMAR -- Authorities say the man who allegedly fired several shots out of his truck in the Zorbaz restaurant parking lot early Sunday in Spicer had been angry at the bar’s bouncers for telling him to pour out his half-finished drink. That’s according to a criminal complaint...