Liz Sawyer

More than a decade before allegedly shooting and critically wounding Davis Moturi, records show Sawchak repeatedly harassed tenants and ran a Black family out of their home.

MINNEAPOLIS - Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old girl missing since her parents were shot to death in their Barron, Wis., home three months ago, was found

A consent decree is one of the federal government's most aggressive tools for reining in police departments found to be violating the U.S. Constitution.

Activists continue to call for Chief Brian O'Hara's firing over the department's handling of a violent neighbor dispute. But O'Hara says he is committed to fulfilling his three-year term and has ‘no intention of turning my back' on the police force.

His Facebook group True North Minneapolis was a hub of community discourse.

The shooting occurred at a North Side location that has drawn a lot of police attention this year.

The Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) has resorted to the unwarranted seclusion of minors and the use of restrictive disciplinary techniques to compensate for staff shortages, according to a state inspection report released last week.

A Hennepin County judge on Wednesday ruled that Minneapolis' longstanding policy that coaching, a form of one-on-one mentoring to address police policy infractions, does not constitute formal discipline — meaning that city officials are entitled to shield such misconduct records from public scrutiny.

A review found Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center confined juveniles for long periods due to staffing shortages rather than behavioral issues

County Commissioner Angela Conley condemned the practice of isolating kids as “cruel and unusual punishment” and questioned why county operators were not finding “tangible solutions.”