Two 18-year-olds are facing felony charges after prosecutors allege they fled from a Hastings police officer on E-Moto-style dirt bikes, ran stop signs and zig-zagged through city streets before repeatedly cutting through a church parking lot.

A man accused of ripping a key-fob reader from the entrance of a West St. Paul fitness center allegedly told police he damaged the equipment to “find city code violations” and show businesses “how corrupt they are,” according to a Dakota County criminal complaint.

A Burnsville man is charged with felony theft after police say he committed 97 thefts from a department store, causing more than $18,000 in losses.

Multiple high-risk search warrants were executed Wednesday morning in Burnsville, Savage and Shakopee as part of an investigation into a July shooting in Edina, according to the Edina Police Department.

The Mendota Heights Police Department honored a community member last week for his actions in helping an endangered missing person earlier this summer.

A Bloomington house cleaner faces two felony theft charges after prosecutors allege he stole property from clients’ homes and pawned nearly $26,000 worth of items across the south metro.

A 19-year-old Farmington man has been charged with felony second-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a girl who was 12 at the time of the alleged offenses.

Three people face felony theft charges after Burnsville police say four suspects stole $963 worth of fragrance products from Ulta Beauty and fled together.

MVTA will offer $6 round-trip express bus service to all Minnesota Gophers and Vikings home games, with pickup locations in Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan and Shakopee.

Jacob John Audie, 37, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2025 murder of his roommate, Michael Maurice Schille, in South St. Paul.

An Inver Grove Heights man is facing a felony charge after allegedly kicking and damaging an apartment door before throwing pennies at the residents’ windows, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dakota County.

Minnesota BCA agents arrested Daniel Christopher Schwartz in Rosemount after he was charged with 13 felonies involving child solicitation and child sexual abuse material.

A 19-year-old man is facing three new felony charges after allegedly threatening to shoot up a South St. Paul residence and fleeing police on the same day he was convicted and sentenced in a separate threats-of-violence case, according to a Dakota County criminal complaint.

A South St. Paul disturbance call led to a felony assault charge after a woman allegedly spit on two police officers while being taken into custody, according to a Dakota County criminal complaint.

Firefighters battled a house fire Friday night in Castle Rock Township, Minnesota. No one was home, and two dogs were rescued from the residence.

A tree-trimming worker has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of a coworker during a job in Apple Valley. According to the criminal complaint, the worker told police he had been maneuvering a hydraulic grapple to make its shadow appear to grab his coworker’s shadow when the fatal incident occurred.

A trash compactor fire at the Target in Apple Valley prompted a second-alarm response Thursday. Firefighters contained the blaze, and no injuries were reported.

A five-vehicle chain-reaction crash occurred Thursday morning on northbound Highway 77 near 127th Street in Apple Valley. No injuries were reported.

A report of a person with a weapon on the grounds of Farmington High School prompted a large emergency response Thursday afternoon, but authorities later determined the suspected weapon was actually a media tripod and that there was no threat to the school.

A 20-year-old Savage man faces five felony charges after an alleged road rage shooting on I-35E in Eagan. Investigators say cellphone data, traffic cameras and a damaged truck tailgate helped build the case.