HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn. - Judge Michael Burns rejected a plea deal Monday that Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s office offered to one of the defendants in the 2019 murder of Steve Markey. Moriarty announced a plea deal Aug. 4 for 20-year-old Husayn Braveheart,...

By  Anthony Gockowski MILLE LACS COUNTY, MINN. - A Mille Lacs County, Minnesota judge who was appointed to the bench by former Democratic governor Mark Dayton said in two orders last week that a new law granting felons the right...

By Liz Collin Derek Chauvin’s new legal team has filed a petition asking the nation’s highest court to hear his case. The official U.S. Supreme Court filing comes after the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to hear the case in July....

By Debra Heine (American Greatness) — Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters gathered outside the United States Capitol on Wednesday as hundreds more occupied the Cannon Rotunda, where demonstrations are prohibited. https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1714720166401962264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1714720166401962264%7Ctwgr%5E1e22c8c0ca00ac350d6386b924499d170f2c01f7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falphanews.org%2Fpro-palestine-protesters-storm-u-s-capitol-occupy-cannon-rotunda%2F https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1714716958766006768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1714716958766006768%7Ctwgr%5E1e22c8c0ca00ac350d6386b924499d170f2c01f7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falphanews.org%2Fpro-palestine-protesters-storm-u-s-capitol-occupy-cannon-rotunda%2F Inside the Cannon office building, the protesters reportedly “demanded” an...

By Liz Collin HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn. - New court documents expose the “extreme pressure” prosecutors faced in Hennepin County to charge Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers in the death of George Floyd. Several attorneys opposed charging the “other three”...

By Hayley Feland Minnesota Rep. Brion Curran, a first-term Democratic legislator from Vadnais Heights, worked as a licensed police officer for 50 days before submitting her resignation, according to employment records obtained by Alpha News. Curran pointed to her law...

By Crime Watch MN A Level 3 sex offender from Coon Rapids, Minn., has been sentenced to federal prison for six years after pleading guilty earlier this year to illegally possessing a firearm. According to court documents, Lewis Edward Byrd,...

By Anthony Gockowski HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn. - Victims’ families and residents gathered outside the Hennepin County Government Center Wednesday to share how Mary Moriarty’s progressive approach to prosecuting has “retraumatized” them and their families. “We’re here to support families who...

By Alpha News Staff BENTON COUNTY, Minn. - Five members of a Sherburne County Drug Task Force were shot Thursday morning while executing a search warrant at a Benton County residence. All of the officers are expected to survive, the...

By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square) — Members of the American Sheriff Alliance are calling for immediate action due to heightened terrorist threats they fear exist because of U.S. border policies. Their call comes as a record number of known,...