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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 25, 2009

Parents Say Minneapolis Officer Seized Kids

The 13-year-old son of John and Tara Farrell and a 12-year-old friend were walking in Brooklyn Park one August night when a Cadillac Escalade sped up and the driver ordered them inside.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 10, 2009

Minnesota Officer Killed with His Own Gun

Officers Richard Crittenden and Julie Olson of the North St. Paul Police Department saved two women from a man who charged at them with a burning rag during a "very intense and very violent battle."

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 7, 2009

Minn. Officer Killed While Responding to Domestic Call

Officer Richard Crittenden of the North St. Paul Police Department, was shot and killed on Monday morning, while responding to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment that officers had visited a day earlier, the Star Tribune reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 4, 2009

St. Paul Officer Honored for Superhuman Life-Saving Feat

Officer Michael McGinn, the son of a retired St. Paul cop, was patrolling alone at the time, Chief John Harrington said. But he slipped on his gloves, picked up the 300-pound engine and he slid it off the victim.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 2, 2009

Twin Cities Cops Add Cell Phone Alerts to Arsenal

Today, Minneapolis and St. Paul officially start Nixle, a service that provides information over cell phones by text message, e-mail and on the Web. More than 1,000 law enforcement agencies now use Nixle, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Baltimore. Unlike services such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, Nixle doesn't allow unauthenticated information to be communicated.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 16, 2009

Twin Cities Police Task Force Prevents Gang Battle

What the gang members didn't know was that strike force members had been planning their own confrontation.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 19, 2009

Officer Stacy Lynn Lakotas of Hopkins (Minn.) PD Named NLEOMF Officer of the Month

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) has announced the selection of Officer Stacy Lynn Lakotas of the Hopkins (Minn.) Police Department as its Officer of the Month for February 2009.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 16, 2009

Missing Somali-American Men Found On Facebook

The FBI investigation is looking into two key questions: Where are the missing men now? And how were they radicalized and recruited inside the Unites States? Facebook could help find the answers.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 13, 2009

FBI Tracks Somali Terror Links in Minneapolis, Elsewhere

Minneapolis has become the focus of a wide-ranging FBI investigation into a terrorist group's recruitment of young immigrant men for service in Somalia's ethnic and religious warfare.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 5, 2009

Minneapolis Cops Kill Car Thief Suspect as He Barrels Toward Them

A suspected car thief fleeing police sped toward other officers and was shot and killed early this morning in north Minneapolis by the targeted officers, authorities say.

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