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MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO/WCCO) - The Minneapolis City Council has approved a plan for a downtown building to serve as the home of Minneapolis Police Departme...

MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO/WCCO) - The Minneapolis City Council has approved a plan for a downtown building to serve as...

MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO/WCCO) - The Minneapolis City Council has approved a plan for a downtown building to serve as the home of Minneapolis Police Departme...

The Minneapolis City Council Tuesday gave the green light to a plan to purchase space at a downtown building to serve as a police station for the Third Precinct, whose headquarters was set afire and ransacked during riots that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd. The action Tuesday gives city staff the authority to purchase several floors of Century Plaza, located on the outskirts of ...

Long Island high school teacher William Sperl, 60, was arrested and charged with raping a 16-year-old girl over the course of four months when she was his student, police said.

Police charged William Sperl, 60, for an alleged 2020 sexual relationship while the girl was a minor.

A Patchogue man is facing charges after he fired shots into a pair of homes on Atlantic Avenue in Bellport earlier this month, Suffolk County police said.

Yash Shah, 25, of Baldwin, was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with second and third-degree grand larceny, and two counts of fifth-degree conspiracy.

The federal jury in Central Islip awarded $13.5 million in compensatory damages and $21.5 million in punitive damages on Thursday to the family of Kenny Lazo of Bay Shore, who died after he was beaten by Suffolk police during a 2008 traffic stop. 

In dueling closing arguments Wednesday, attorneys for the family of a Bay Shore man who died in police custody and Suffolk County gave conflicting accounts of events the night he died.