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  • Shakopee man charged in food stamp fraud
    A Shakopee man has been charged in federal court with one felony count of food stamp fraud.April 22, 2013
  • Bombing suspect questioned without being read Miranda rights
    Bombing supsect Dzokhar Tsarnaev has yet to be read his Miranda rights, which police are usually required by law to read to suspects in custody before they are questioned. Tsarnaev was not read his Miranda rights under a "public safety exception."The Daily Circuit, April 22, 2013
  • Police: Bombing suspects planned more attacks
    As churches paused to mourn the dead and console the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing Sunday, the city's police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons that they were probably planning other attacks.April 21, 2013
  • Minn. manhunt ends in arrest of suspect
    After a manhunt, authorities have arrested a suspect in the stabbing of a woman in the southern Minnesota city of Faribault.April 21, 2013
  • Interrogators wait to query wounded bomb suspect
    As the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay hospitalized under heavy guard, the American Civil Liberties Union and a federal public defender raised concerns about investigators' plan to question 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights.April 21, 2013
  • The search for answers in Boston: Why? How? Anyone else?
    With the capture Friday night of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old surviving suspect in the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the story moves into a new phase -- one of trying to answer critical questions. Authorities hope to get many answers from Tsarnaev himself.April 20, 2013
  • Across America, a week of chaos, horror -- and hope
    Moment after nail-biting moment, the events shoved us through a week that felt like an unremitting series of tragedies: Deadly bombs. Poison letters. A town shattered by a colossal explosion. A violent manhunt that paralyzed a major city, emptying streets of people and filling them with heavily armed police and piercing sirens. But beneath the pain, horror was counteracted by hope.April 20, 2013
  • Judge upholds rental restriction in Winona
    A judge has upheld a city ordinance in Winona, Minn., that prevented some homeowners from renting out their properties.April 20, 2013
  • Final shootout, then Boston bombing suspect caught
    The capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Watertown, Mass., touched off raucous celebrations in and around Boston, with chants of "USA, USA" as residents flooded the streets in relief and jubilation after four tense days since twin explosions ripped through the marathon's crowd at the finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180.April 20, 2013
  • In suburban Boston, thanks and jubilation
    Celebrations erupted in Boston and beyond as the capture of the remaining marathon bombing suspect was announced in a tweet from police.April 19, 2013
  • 'We got him': Boston Marathon bombing suspect held
    Boston Police say a college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings is in custody after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralyzed and his older brother and alleged accomplice dead. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is in serious condition and was hospitalized late Friday.April 19, 2013
  • The stories of 2 brothers suspected in bombing
    Two brothers, one dead, one alive and at large. After hours when they were known only by grainy images of two men in baseball caps, a portrait gradually emerged Friday of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.April 19, 2013
  • 1 dead, 2 injured in Shakopee shooting
    Police say one person is dead and two others are injured in a shooting at a Shakopee apartment building.April 19, 2013
  • 2nd stillborn's remains may have gone to laundry
    A Minnesota hospital says the remains of a second stillborn baby also may have been sent to a laundry.April 19, 2013
  • House bill ups pay for Minn. judges
    The Minnesota House has passed a court funding bill that includes salary increases for the state's judges and travel and lodging reimbursements for state Court of Appeals judges who live in greater Minnesota.April 19, 2013

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