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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

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
School are open in Princeton; authorities seeking answers in bomb threats
Princeton Police Chief Brian Payne said this morning he's waiting to hear from the St. Paul police bomb squad, which was trying to determine contents of suspicious packages a day after almost 4,000 students and workers were sent home.
Oct 1, 2009
Arson suspected in fire at Mpls. house in development fight
But fire damage may not affect whether the house is designated a historic landmark.
Sep 30, 2009
Tragedy multiplies: Mom, kids killed
The deaths of Michaelene Norcross -- four months pregnant -- and her two children struck family members especially hard because three other family members and a neighbor were killed in a van rollover near Detroit Lakes on July 4.
Sep 28, 2009
Second Minneapolis person shot dead in broad daylight
A day after an 18-year-old was killed in north Minneapolis, a shooting in Northeast left one man dead.
Sep 28, 2009
State lags in use of GPS to stop violence
Not just a gadget: GPS ankle bracelets detect violators of protection orders.
Sep 23, 2009
Six deaths carved into hearts, and now stone
11 years after their mother killed them, their graves are marked.
Sep 13, 2009
Officer died in a 'heroic' struggle
As the North St. Paul officer grappled with a suspect thrusting a burning rag at him, the suspect got the officer's gun and shot him.
Sep 10, 2009
At the fair: What you don't see
The hardest 12 days of work happens behind the scenes at the fair. Long hours, thankless cleanup, but some of the workers see it as a vacation.
Sep 6, 2009


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