Editor’s Note: Beat notes is a weekly feature from Dispatch journalists who share what’s been happening in their area of coverage and upcoming events. This week, we hear from Bethany Bruner, who ...

A Twin Cities real estate agent has been charged with multiple tax felonies, with prosecutors alleging he owes almost ...

James Duane Ortley, 35, was recently charged following the Oct. 22 incident at Hennepin County Jail. A man charged in a ...

Lydia McComas, 28, decided in college that she wanted to be in the field. Veteran officials are looking to people like her as turnover accelerates.

The new clerk in Madison, Wisconsin, is part of a generation of officials who are setting out to make election work their ...

Lawsuits are mounting from homeowners, investors and counties. Unless lawmakers act, taxpayers could pay millions in damages over Illinois' unconstitutional tax sale system.

The City of Eden Prairie denies wrongdoing in Bennie Jacobs’ data-privacy lawsuit, saying employees acted lawfully and in ...

A 58-year-old New Hope resident has been charged with three separate felony counts of mail theft following a series of ...

A Monticello man is facing a felony charge for reportedly fleeing police at high rates of speed along Highway 169 last week.

Nicholas DeRousse subjected his mother to numerous sometimes-violent outbursts, court documents alleged. A man with a history ...

Elsa Segura was compelled to testify against her ex-boyfriend Lyndon Wiggins, who is accused of masterminding the execution ...