Murder

HASTINGS, Minn. -- A Dakota County judge sentenced Officer Scott Patrick's killer Wednesday to life in prison with no possibility of parole. The sentence was automatic after a first-degree murder conviction for Brian Fitch Sr., handed down Monday by a jury in St. Cloud. Fitch,...

DEER RIVER, Minn. -- A rural Deer River man has pleaded not guilty in his infant child's death under a new grand jury indictment. Emery James Jenkins, 38, was indicted last week by an Itasca County grand jury on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder...