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 Justin Grant Evans, already a suspect in a series of west metro burglaries, broke into Minnetonka businesses and stole tools and computer equipment last month.
Police say Cesar Gutierrez Hernandez sexually assaulted a woman while she was asleep.
Police say Chol Waragak Gatluak allegedly skipped out on his rehab facility and broke into the same liquor store twice last July, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.
Police say Jacob Michael Theobald was drunk when he crashed his car into a tree in Burnsville last August, injuring himself and his passenger.
Police say Leo Sylvester Toay II siphoned more than $45,000 from his father, who suffers from dementia.
Police say Horace Lawrence Washington had 4 grams of heroin in his car when they arrested him for selling the drug to a man from Ramsey, Minn.
Police say that when they arrested James Earl Holston Jr. for fishing without a license, they found cocaine in his sweatshirt pocket.
Police say Shinny Thao stole a car in St. Louis Park and that he had methamphetamine in the car when he was arrested.
Police say Quentin Paul Christenson forced a woman to have sex, and later told officers he thought she was "playing hard to get."
Police say Bobby Lee Jones became upset when his mother refused to make him something to eat.
Police say Miguel Alexander Melgar-Flores had more than 3 ounces of cocaine, a handgun, ammunition, a digital scale and $5,000 in cash when he was arrested last week.
Police say Justin Grant Evans broke into a Wayzata jewelry store last month and stole more than $4,000 worth of rings.
Police say Justin Grant Evans broke into Graham Jewelers last month and stole more than $4,000 worth of rings.
Police say Justin Grant Evans, a suspect in a string of commercial burglaries last month, also broke into a Wayzata jewelry store and stole more than $4,000 worth of rings.
Police say they found five grams of cocaine in Bruce John Earlewine's sock after he was arrested in Deephaven last week.
Police say Jerald Paul Delaney, of Hopkins, and Kathryn Ann Huelskamp, of Golden Valley, received a package containing almost 5 pounds of marijuana last week.
Police say Joseph Paul Petersen of Champlin violated two no-contact orders by riding in a car the victim.
Taylor James Pass of Eagan, acquitted of murder in 2009, is now charged with attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault.
Police recently arrested Siro Lee Amerson, charged with third-degree assault for allegedly knocking a tooth out a woman's mouth.
Nationwide arrest warrants were issued for Robin John Peterson and Joseph John Rousseau, both of whom are charged with aggravated first-degree robbery, second-degree assault and false imprisonment.
