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.
Kamaal Abdirahman Geele is accused of punching, slapping and choking his wife, then threatening to come back and shoot her "with eight bullets."
A Dakota County judge ruled that county social services should remain involved in the welfare of the 11-year-old boy whom Steven Alexander Cross is accused of abandoning in July.
William Donald Maloney, 17, allegedly confessed to police that he stalked three teenage girls in Eagan, breaking into their homes and stealing their underwear.
A roundup of selected Eagan Police Department calls and arrests.
Patrick Brian Johnson faces a felony charge of domestic assault by strangulation after the incident earlier this week.
Things to know today, Oct. 21
Justin John Cloud is charged with theft and possession of an illegal sawed-off shotgun.
Christopher Allen Holcomb of Mahtomedi and Jesse Roy Magnuson of White Bear Lake were arrested about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday behind the Eagan Walmart.
Jeff Tyson and Emanuel Mohamed Robertson are charged with felony robbery in connection with the Oct. 17 incident.
Police say Adam Nicholas Fournelle threatened to have his friends kill an Inver Grove Heights woman and told her that her body would be found floating in the Mississippi River.
Steven Alexander Cross asked a judge to allow him to have visits with his 11-year-old son.
Some things to know today, Oct. 20.
Elliott Hammons III was arrested Wednesday in Minneapolis.
Police say Shane Michael Hejl kicked in his ex-girlfriend's door in Burnsville last weekend and choked her.
Brandi Amber Haag has three previous DUI convictions in Minnesota.
Police allege Cory William Little hit his sister and bit her after she tried to prevent him from hitting his pregnant girlfriend last weekend.
Gilbert Edward Gage was arrested Tuesday evening in Zumbrota.
Gilbert Edward Gage of Rosemount was arrested Tuesday evening in Zumbrota.
Some tidbits for residents to know today, Oct. 19.
Police say Michael Theodore Levine was abusive toward the Eagan woman with whom he had been living since July, and that he had set up a marijuana-growing operation in her home.
