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Mara Gottfried

Saint Paul

Reporter at Pioneer Press

Reporter covering St. Paul public safety @PioneerPress. Reach me at [email protected] or 651-503-0163. DMs open.

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  • 1 week ago | twincities.com | Mara Gottfried

    A lightning strike may have been the cause of a steeple fire at a historic church in St. Paul on Thursday, the fire department said. The fire didn’t extend into the church in Frogtown and no injuries were reported. The Gothic Revival church on Farrington Street at Sherburne Avenue was built in 1902 by Trinity Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, according to the website of Historic St. Paul, a nonprofit preservation organization.

  • 1 week ago | twincities.com | Mara Gottfried

    A volunteer at a Roseville church has been charged with sexually assaulting four young children at the church. Joshua Alirio Seeman, 50, “is a cognitively delayed adult with a lengthy history of sexual assault accusations against him made by vulnerable adults, and now young children,” according to the criminal complaint filed Friday.

  • 1 week ago | twincities.com | Mara Gottfried

    A man fatally shot in his South St. Paul apartment was a 72-year-old, the medical examiner’s office said Monday. South St. Paul police responded to a report of a shooting about 8:50 p.m. Friday and found Michael M. Schille in his apartment on 12th Avenue off Thompson Avenue. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers located a 36-year-old man at the scene and took him into custody.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Mara Gottfried

    Gun violence is down in St. Paul: The number of people wounded in shootings can be counted on two hands and neither of the homicides have been by gunfire. The eight people hurt in shootings, as of April 8, compares with 26 during the same timeframe last year. There have been two homicides, both by stabbings. Eight people had been killed in St. Paul as of this date last year; five had been shot.

  • 2 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Mara Gottfried

    By Mara H. Gottfried - Pioneer Press (TNS) What happened to Brittany Clardy a dozen years ago is not only painful to her family and her St. Paul community, it's "reflective of a much larger crisis" in Minnesota and across the nation, her sister said Wednesday. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.

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Mara Gottfried
Mara Gottfried @MaraGottfried
12 Dec 24

RT @FrederickMelo: If you see someone who needs a warm spot to sleep tonight, call 651-266-1035 and a shuttle will pick them up. No joke.…

Mara Gottfried
Mara Gottfried @MaraGottfried
12 Sep 24

Police said a 12-year-old girl admitted to posting threats about St. Paul schools but didn’t “have the means or desire to carry out the threat.”

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Update: Juvenile in custody after school social media threats circulate, St. Paul police say. https://t.co/zAjFdvIOHV

Mara Gottfried
Mara Gottfried @MaraGottfried
22 Aug 24

RT @PioneerPress: Estranged wife of DOC commissioner charged with attempted murder of their adult son. https://t.co/uDhdWIElMc