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.
Police say Canada Baronetta Lymon threatened to assault her grandmother and stab her stepfather after she was kicked out of her grandmother's house.
Nicholas Leo Bressler, of Hopkins, told police he was trying to get inside to retrieve his headphones.
Police say Nicholas Leo Bressler of Hopkins and Dallas Michael Clarine of Richfield threw items at a drive-through window in an attempt to burglarize it, then fled police on foot.
Police say Jesse Dale McPheeters, a mechanic at a Burnsville repair shop, stole a money order from a customer's car and gave it to his girlfriend, Burgandie Nicole Brooks of Belle Plaine.
Police say Dallas Michael Clarine of Richfield and Nicholas Leo Bressler of Hopkins threw items at a drive-thru window in an attempt to burglarize it, then fled police on foot.
Police say Matthew Lee Gutzmer stole the cards from a Burnsville business where he worked as a temporary employee.
Jesse Dale McPheeters, a mechanic at a Burnsville repair shop, is charged with allegedly stealing a money order from a customer's car and giving it to his girlfriend, Burgandie Nicole Brooks of Belle Plaine, who then allegedly cashed it.
Police say Matthew Lee Gutzmer of Hopkins stole prepaid gift cards from the business while working on the company's computer system.
Zachary Michael Hirsch was arrested July 30 by Scott County authorities in connection with a heroin-related case.
Police say 19-year-old Christopher Thomas Parker forced his wife to leave work early and then, after she managed to get away from him, broke into her locked house and strangled and punched her.
Police say Vernell Grubbs, convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old, had been living in Minnetonka since last spring without registering as a sex offender.
Police say Anthony Wayne Smith exposed himself to a man and his daughter in May.
Police say Jared Anthony Hevey had a reportedly stolen handgun in his backpack when he was arrested in Shorewood.
Police say Jesus Martin Luna-Ortega fled police in Bloomington, crashed his bike and then took off again before he was arrested in a hotel parking lot.
Keith Allen Pecholt and Chad Robert Espeseth are charged with third-degree burglary after authorities say they found them in an apartment complex laundry room with $274 worth of quarters.
Cornelius David Blue is charged with failing to register as a predatory offender after a 1995 conviction for kidnapping a partially deaf woman with cerebral palsy and then raping her.
Police say Randy Tyler Riddle led an officer on a chase near Cannon Falls that reached speeds of 92 mph.
Police say Cory James Walz and Delphis Cheryouit Kuto, along with a juvenile male and a juvenile female, participated in a number of burglaries in late July, including stealing iPods from cars in a Plymouth garage.
Eagan teenagers Joey James Brown and Paul Earnest McWilliams Jr. were formally charged with first-degree aggravated robbery and second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon.
Police say Anthony Wayne Smith exposed himself and masturbated in front of a Burnsville man and his daughter in May.
