Lou Raguse

2 weeks ago | kare11.com | Lou Raguse

MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly eight years have passed since the day Joe Cooper dropped off his son Gabe at daycare, only for his wife Sam to learn a couple of hours later that something was terribly wrong. "I got a phone call from Sylwia. I couldn't understand anything she was saying," Sam Cooper said. It was Gabe's third day of daycare at Sylwia Pawlak-Reynolds' house in south Minneapolis where Gabe's sister had gone for a couple of years.

2 weeks ago | kare11.com | Lou Raguse

DULUTH, Minn — A magistrate judge from Duluth, Leo Brisbois, may have just gone through the most unexpectedly colorful status conference of his career Wednesday afternoon when he called the case of the U.S. Government v. Gabriel Luthor. Luthor is accused, along with his girlfriend Elizabeth Brown, of stealing $15 million in taxpayer money through a Medicare and Medicaid billing scheme.

2 weeks ago | kare11.com | Lou Raguse

FARMINGTON, Minn — When Adam Fravel was sentenced to life in prison without parole in December, many might have assumed he no longer had parental rights. After all, a jury convicted him of murdering the mother of his children. "Everybody assumes that. And they are really dumbfounded and stupefied that is not the case and what we needed to go through to get his parental rights terminated," said David Kingsbury, the father of murder victim Maddi Kingsbury.

3 weeks ago | kare11.com | Lou Raguse

MINNEAPOLIS — "She was very dear to me," he said. Heartbreaking testimony from Burham Warfaa, who, through a Somali translator, told the jury about the loss of his daughter Sagal Hersi. "It is very hard for me. She was the best daughter any father can have," he said. Sagal and four of her close friends were instantly killed when an SUV allegedly driven by Derrick Thompson blew through a red light at 90 miles per hour on June 16, 2023.

4 weeks ago | kare11.com | Lou Raguse

ZIMMERMAN, Minn. — At a private memorial service in Zimmerman, Minnesota, one year after the murder of Minneapolis Police Officer Jamal Mitchell, Chief Brian O'Hara recognized Mitchell's widow. "We often forget to mention it is those loved ones who serve alongside of us," O'Hara said. "And in this case have made the ultimate sacrifice for our community." For the first time since losing her husband, Tori Myslajek shared her story.