Murder

WALKER, Minn. -- A Pine River man who killed another man in 2012, burning and dismembering his body before burying him, was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison. Dane Joseph Riley, 29, received the statutory maximum sentence in Cass County Court in the killing of Mark Huesmann,...

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. - A Deer River man was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty Friday to second-degree murder in his girlfriend’s killing. Eugene Nason, 50, pleaded guilty in Itasca County District Court. The court imposed a sentence, consistent with the Minnesota sentencing...

NEW YORK - A father and his 3-year-old son died after the man threw the boy from the roof of a luxury Manhattan high-rise and then leapt off the building on Sunday following "domestic turmoil" with the boy's mother, New York police said on Monday. The father was Dmitriy Kanarikov,...

HASTINGS, Minn.

MISSOULA, Mont.,- A Montana bride accused of killing her new husband by pushing him off a cliff in Glacier National Park pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Thursday in an 11th-hour deal reached as closing arguments were set to begin in the case. Jordan Graham, 22, had been...

WILLMAR – One of three teens charged in the killing of a Willmar woman last summer has pleaded guilty. Devon Jenkins, 16, of Willmar, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of unintentional second-degree murder for his role in the July 29 killing of Lila Warwick at her Willmar residence. Under...

GRAND FORKS – New court documents give new alleged details from a teenage witness of the stabbing death of Ruben Cisneros Jr. on Nov. 17 northwest of here and show how fast law enforcement nabbed the suspects in the killing and burglary. Three men and a woman, Jennifer Blue,...

GRANITE FALLS, Minn.

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. – Otter Tail County Sheriff’s officials say new conspiracy to commit murder charges have been filed against an Otter Tail County man charged in the drug-related murder of his nephew near here in May 2012. Conspiracy to commit murder charges were filed against...

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn.

THIEF RIVER FALLS — The jury of six women and six men began deciding Jedidiah Troxel’s fate about 11:30 a.m.

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. – The attorney for the man charged with killing his cousin over a drug debt in Otter Tail County wants more time to review the case. Michael Kyle Burris, 23, faces felony second-degree murder charges in the death of Scott Burris in 2012. Michael Kyle...

FARGO – A Fargo man was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for murdering his wife in a case in which he initially tried to convince authorities she committed suicide. In handing down the sentence to Ronald William Rogers Jr, Cass County District Court Judge Lisa Fair McEvers...