Minnesota political and law enforcement leaders heavily criticized a decision by federal officials to remove the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from what had been a joint investigation with the FBI into the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent on Jan.

After an immigration agent fatally shot a woman, Minnesotans have called for the officer to be prosecuted. But previous attempts to charge federal officers at the state level have failed.

All but 12 county attorneys in Minnesota recently joined Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty in asking court officials to address recent issues accessing court data in a timely manner. On Nov. 9, Moriarty and 74 other county attorneys sent a letter to ...

A Minnesota criminal defense attorney who swindled thousands from one of her clients in 2018 has been disbarred. The Minnesota Supreme Court disbarred Kristi McNeilly, of Woodbury, from the practice of law after the Office of Lawyers Professional ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has been flexing his public safety credentials as Republican challenger Jim Schultz campaigns on the issue of rising crime. As Schultz has pledged to tackle crime by drastically expanding the size of ...

[image_credit]John Autey/Pioneer Press/Pool via REUTERS[/image_credit][image_caption]Under current law, a county attorney can ask Attorney General Keith Ellison to handle a case or for help. The governor can also order the AG to take over a case.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Two county attorneys are coming together to change how bail works. It means bail money will no longer be needed for many crimes in Hennepin and Washington counties. Instead of waiting on the legislature, they are effectively ending ...

Attorney General Keith Ellison greets supporters during the Minnesota DFL election night party at the Intercontinental Saint Paul Riverfront hotel on Wednesday. [MUSIC PLAYING] INTERVIEWER: Well, one of the close races we watched Tuesday night was the ...

Local law enforcement in Minnesota can’t legally hold people in jail for the sole purpose of turning them over to federal immigration authorities, according to an opinion from state Attorney General Keith Ellison this week. As agents for U.S. Immigration ...

An attorney for a Minnesota man charged in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old suburban Chicago girl more than half a century ago wants statements he made at a police station suppressed. Attorney Terry Ekl argued in a recent defense motion that statements ...