Chao Xiong
Reporter | Regional
Phone: 612-673-4391
E-mail: cxiong@startribune.com
Chao Xiong is a general assignment reporter whose specialty is responding quickly to breaking news stories.
Recent content from Chao Xiong
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St. Paul woman's death 'suspicious'; husband suspected
The death in the couple's townhouse hasn't yet been officially ruled a homicide, and no arrest has been made.
Nov 3, 2009 -
Retired police officer gravely injured by bulldog he had rescued
The bulldog that Jim Stewart had adopted from a foster home had shown no signs of aggression, a roommate said.
Oct 31, 2009 -
Retired cop gravely injured by his bulldog
Jim Stewart, who retired from the Hudson, Wis., Police Department after 24 years and who now works as a security guard at the St. Paul Hotel, underwent hours of surgery.
Oct 31, 2009 -
Jury convicts Hopkins man in murder-for-hire plot
A Hopkins man was found guilty of hiring a friend to punch his pregnant girlfriend and kill the fetus. Friends and family were outraged.
Oct 30, 2009 -
Jury weighing case of planned attack on pregnant girlfriend
Prosecutors said the two punches led to a premature birth, and the baby died nine days later.
Oct 30, 2009 -
Judge to Edina: Give back the car keys
A car impounded in a DWI arrest belonged to the driver's mother. It took five months and a judge to get it released.
Oct 28, 2009 -
Ramsey mother of three killed while checking on another accident victim
Fresh from her own car accident Saturday morning, Michelle L. Bartell was checking on another driver whose car had rolled over on the icy pavement when another vehicle slid off the same road and hit her, killing her.
Oct 12, 2009 -
3 crashes: Pedestrian, teen, wrong-way driver dead
A pedestrian was killed this morning after being struck by a car on Interstate 35, the third deadly accident on Minnesota roads since Friday afternoon.
Oct 10, 2009 -
Missing Fridley man found dead in crawl space next to apartment
Police wouldn't say whether the death is suspicious.
Oct 12, 2009 -
3 Princeton packages contained 'inert powder'
Results were pending on plastic bottles that forced a shutdown of Princeton.
Oct 1, 2009