Eric Chaloux

Feb 18, 2025 | kstp.com | Graham Brewer |Curt Anderson |Eric Chaloux |Cory Knudsen

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. Peltier, 80, left Coleman penitentiary in an SUV, according to a prison official. He didn’t stop to speak with reporters or the roughly two dozen supporters who gathered outside the gates to celebrate his release.

Feb 13, 2025 | kstp.com | Krystal Frasier |Eric Chaloux |Krystal Frasier KSTP

A 21-year-old man charged with criminal vehicular operation after seriously injuring a three-year-old girl and then fleeing the scene in northeast Minneapolis last year will be spending time in the county jail and on probation. On Thursday, Judge Amber Brennan sentenced Jaelyn Steven Evans to 180 days in the Hennepin County Jail. He will be eligible for work release and will also spend three years on probation.

Sep 9, 2024 | wqow.com | Eric Chaloux

ELK MOUND, Wis. (KSTP) -  A western Wisconsin family is alive thanks to the Village of Elk Mound’s police chief kicking in a door to save them from a fire burning in their home. “One person was still sleeping when the fire started and the other person was in the basement, so they did not hear the smoke detectors going off,” said Elk Mound Assistant Fire Chief Larry Zais. “Fortunate enough that a village employee noticed.

Aug 30, 2024 | kstp.com | Stephen Whyno |Eric Chaloux |Cory Knudsen

NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and his younger brother were killed on the eve of their sister’s wedding when they were hit by a suspected drunken driver while riding bicycles in their home state of New Jersey, police said Friday. New Jersey State Police said the Gaudreau brothers were cycling on a road in Oldmans Township on Thursday night when a man driving an SUV in the same direction attempted to pass two other vehicles and struck them from behind about 8 p.m., less than a half-hour after sunset.

Jul 12, 2024 | kstp.com | Cory Knudsen |Eric Chaloux

WASHINGTON (AP) — Yesterday, President Joe Biden opened his highly anticipated news conference with a forceful defense of his foreign and domestic policies and batted away questions about his ability to serve another four years, even as he flubbed a reference to former President Donald Trump in one of his first answers.