Betsy is a former reporter for The Forum of Fargo (N.D.), the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader and the St. Paul Capitol Report/Politics in Minnesota. She also wrote a pop-culture column and was national copy editor for Internet Broadcasting, and spent several months as an interim managing editor at the Minneapolis Business Journal -- in addition to some jobs not particularly connected to journalism, including process server and test proctor.
Alexander James Farrell of Eagan and James Lambert Bergstrom of St. Paul are charged with burglarizing a Minneapolis rubber company, and police say Farrell blamed his addiction to methamphetamine for the crime.
Police say Jaime Lynn Chapman of Plymouth found an old passport in a Golden Valley apartment complex trash bin and opened fraudulent online accounts.
Police say Dontre Jackson sold $100 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover Minneapolis police officer.
Police say Abdul Rahim Trotman grabbed a Richfield officer's firearm and pressed the magazine release button before they were able to restrain him.
Police say Abdul Rahim Trotman grabbed a Richfield officer's pistol and pressed the magazine release button before they were able to restrain him.
Police say Cornell Derrick Waters had a blood-alcohol content of .22 percent when he punched, bit and strangled the woman.
Police say Rodrigo Mota arranged to sell almost 4 ounces of methamphetamine to an undercover informant last week in Bloomington.
Police say they found a loaded .38-caliber revolver in Dashawn Jermaine Jackson's pocket when they arrested him in Minneapolis.
Police say Kris Laymar Ewing—already facing robbery charges—assaulted another inmate when the man stepped in to separate Ewing and a third inmate during an argument about a brown-bag meal.
Police say they found Bree Anne Stewart sitting inside a screened porch belonging to a man who has a protection order against her.
Deputies say they found two ATVs reported stolen from a job site at Carleton College on property rented by Joshua Gene Goettl and Dalton Herbert Oster.
Police say Troy Blaine Almhjeld, who has a history of domestic assault convictions, was verbally abusive toward his stepfather and half-sister after his stepfather asked him to leave his apartment.
Police say Janice Marie Sherley made repeated threats against a Burnsville woman who accused Sherley's son, Stanley Gerald Sherley Jr., of threatening to kill her.
Police say Kayeden Robert Oliver, who is in transition from female to male, strangled his girlfriend after an argument over a barking dog.
Police say Rudolph Valentino Avent of Minneapolis was captured on surveillance video using a stolen credit card at the Apple Valley Walmart last December, and a second man is still at large.
Michael Wilder of Mounds View is accused of strangling his girlfriend, then not allowing her to leave his apartment for an hour after the assault.
Carl Darrell Looyen was charged with felony drug distribution after sheriff's deputies found large quantities of marijuana and cash along with scales and packaging items in his home.
Police say Rudolph Valentino Avent of Minneapolis was captured on surveillance video using a stolen credit card at the Apple Valley Walmart last December.
Shawn Denton Van Hamm, who had been sought by authorities since March, was arrested Tuesday in Ramsey County.
Officers say James Lee Norgaard III told them that he fled because he was on probation for car theft.