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VIRGINIA, Minn. (AP) — A man from northern Minnesota's Iron Range has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for giving his girlfriend a fatal dose of a synthetic drug.

ELK RIVER, Minn. (AP) — A 33-year-old man was given jail time for routinely leaving his young sons in a filthy home near Princeton

Rochester, MN (KROC AM News) - A Rochester man has been sentenced to just over four years in prison for a conviction stemming from an incident last December.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Little Falls man convicted of killing two teenagers who broke into his home on Thanksgiving Day 2012 won't be getting a new trial.

FRIENDSHIP, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin jury has convicted a man who blamed eating beer-battered fish when he was picked up on his 10th drunken driving offense.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The St. Paul Police Department will hold a public meeting Wednesday on the upcoming release of a man from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.

BUFFALO, Minn. (AP) — The son of an Elk River police officer convicted of killing his father and brother in Wright County has been sentenced to 61 years in prison.

CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Charles City man was re-sentenced to life with a chance of parole for killing his 3-year-old cousin.

MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a caller who phoned in a bomb threat to a Wisconsin county sheriff's office made an apparent reference to "getting justice" for the man at the center of the "Making a Murderer" documentary.

Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - Roads in the Rochester area may have been in poor shape Tuesday but that didn’t stop three local men from getting behind the wheel after drinking alcohol. And this wasn’t the first time for one of the men.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys say a U.S. Supreme Court ruling likely means a Minnesota man sentenced to life without parole for raping and killing a Woodbury teenager when he was 17 will get a hearing on whether his sentence should be reduced.

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (AP) — A former Boston Scientific engineer has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing trade secrets from his employer.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is accusing a state prison inmate of trying to defraud the state's Medical Assistance program.

OWATONNA, Minn. (AP) — A judge has refused to grant a new trial for a former hotel manager convicted of sexually assaulting a teen employee earlier this year.