Nick Ferraro

2 weeks ago | twincities.com | Nick Ferraro

A Ramsey County judge has acquitted a former Bethel football player of sexually assaulting a fellow student in 2018, a ruling that follows a jury’s not guilty verdict in an assault case involving him and another student. Judge Joy Bartscher on Thursday found Gideon Osamwonyi Erhabor, now 27 of McKinney, Texas, not guilty of felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct and gross misdemeanor fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a then-18-year-old woman in his dorm room on Sept. 11, 2018.

2 weeks ago | twincities.com | Nick Ferraro

A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter for fatally stabbing his mother’s boyfriend during a fight at their Coon Rapids home. Romelle Flowers’ mother called 911 just before 3:30 a.m. May 1, 2024, and said he had cut her boyfriend, who was bleeding and unconscious in the home along Jay Street, just north of Coon Rapids Boulevard, according to a second-degree murder charge filed two days later.

2 weeks ago | twincities.com | Nick Ferraro

Laura Jean Fero, a former dean of nursing at St. Catherine University, did not apologize at her Wednesday sentencing for swindling from the St. Paul school through bogus contracts with a health care consultant she was dating. Fero, 55, told Ramsey County District Judge DeAnne Hilgers she has remorse for “introducing a very manipulative person” to the university and said she was a “victim of that situation, as well.” She said she lost everything, including her home and profession of 30 years.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nick Ferraro

Laura Jean Fero, a former dean of nursing at St. Catherine University, did not apologize at her Wednesday sentencing for swindling from the St. Paul school through bogus contracts with a health care consultant she was dating. Fero, 55, told Ramsey County District Judge DeAnne Hilgers she has remorse for “introducing a very manipulative person” to the university and said she was a “victim of that situation, as well.” She said she lost everything, including her home and profession of 30 years.

2 weeks ago | twincities.com | Nick Ferraro

A Blaine man charged with aiding an offender to avoid arrest in Friday’s fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy outside Northtown Mall was allegedly involved in a February shooting death in Columbia Heights, according to court records. Sudais Abdi Omar, of Brooklyn Park, was shot in the chest Friday in the mall’s Best Buy parking lot and pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids.