South Metro
March 21, 2020

Twin Cities metro police blotter, March 22

West Metro
March 19, 2020
Surveillance video from an Edina school bus captured an image identifying the vehicle that struck a student last week.

Driver suspected in hit-run that injured Edina student arrested in Michigan

The 26-year-old has been charged with second-degree assault and is being held in the Eaton County jail in Michigan.
West Metro
March 17, 2020
Cedric Marks

Texas man charged in 2009 killing of woman taken from Bloomington shelter

Cedrick Marks is also suspected in the deaths of his ex-girlfriend and another man and remains in a Texas jail.
West Metro
March 16, 2020

Arbitrator reinstates fired Eden Prairie police officer, saying faulty search warrant was not intentional

Officer didn't intentionally falsify record, he decides.
West Metro
March 16, 2020
John Wiseman Credit: Hennepin County jail

Charge: Rift 'over money and fidelity' preceded Maple Grove man killing wife

Witness said the husband wanted a divorce but was unwilling to divide the money and property equally, according to prosecutors.
West Metro
March 14, 2020
Lynn Carlson Schell

Lynn Carlson Schell, Edina real estate trailblazer and champion of senior living, dies at 59

Carlson Schell founded the Minnetonka-based real estate development company Shelter Corp. in 1993.
South Metro
March 14, 2020

Twin Cities metro police blotter, March 15

West Metro
March 14, 2020

Police: Plymouth man stashed 374 pounds of cannabis gummies in his apartment

The man is due to appear in court on April 10, online jail records show.
West Metro
March 13, 2020
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art by Minneapolis photographer Lynn Geesaman

Famed landscape photographer Lynn Geesaman dies at age 81

She photographed the gardens of France, the parks of England, the canals of Belgium. But her favorite location was the darkroom of her Edina home.
West Metro
March 13, 2020
Students worked on coding skills during an "Hour of Code" at Robbinsdale's School of Engineering and Arts.

Robbinsdale first state school district to close over COVID-19 concerns

The district serving about 12,500 students called off classes Friday.
West Metro
March 12, 2020
Police say the vehicle of a road rage suspect is an older black Chevrolet Trailblazer with silver trim around the bottom, the wheels and the bumpers.

Motorist shoots at other vehicle in road-rage incident in Golden Valley

The person in the targeted vehicle was not hurt, according to police.
West Metro
March 10, 2020

Woman found dead in a Maple Grove home

Authorities were saying "there is no known threat to the community at this time."
West Metro
March 10, 2020
West Metro
March 10, 2020
Stephanie Clark Credit: Hennepin County jail

Authorities ID man shot in Maple Grove home; girlfriend charged

Prosecutors allege she shot him with one gun until it had no more bullets, then got another gun and shot him in the head.
West Metro
March 10, 2020

Charges: Airport electrician made $126,000 selling copper stolen from contractors

Kipp W. Baldwin made more than $126,000 in five years selling copper as scrap.
West Metro
March 10, 2020
Myon Burrell, convicted in the murder of Tyesha Edwards, an 11-year-old girl pierced in the heart by a stray bullet in 2002 while doing homework at he

Freeman kicks years-old Myon Burrell case back to Klobuchar

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman on Monday called for Sen. Amy Klobuchar to request a federal investigation into a years-old murder case that dogged her in the final days of her presidential bid, pushing back on her request for him to seek an outside review.
West Metro
March 9, 2020
Medical personnel with the California Air National Guard's 129th Rescue Wing worked Thursday alongside staff from the Centers for Disease Control and

Stranded on a cruise ship, Minn. passengers await a two-week quarantine — and better food

Some wish the food was better, and all are anxious about the impending quarantine on land.
South Metro
March 7, 2020

Twin Cities metro police blotter, March 8

West Metro
March 6, 2020

Maple Grove woman killed her boyfriend after he assaulted her, charges say

The victim's identity has not been released. He suffered several gunshot wounds to his back, side and the back of his head, the charges said.

Twin Cities West Metro

News coverage of the Twin Cities western suburbs, including Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Edina, Hopkins, Minnetonka, St. Louis Park and Wayzata.