HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn. — Hennepin County will pay $3.4 million to settle a lawsuit following the death of Lucas Bellamy. Lucas Bellamy was an inmate at the Hennepin County Jail at the time of ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Citing a failure to provide adequate well-being checks and staffing woes, the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) placed the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center's license ...

The state of Minnesota has given the Hennepin County jail eight days to reduce its inmate population by 239 people, saying the jail doesn’t have enough staff on duty and isn’t checking on ...

Hennepin County officials have fired a courier who left several boxes of ballots unsecured outside of Edina City Hall on Friday. The discovery led to an immediate response from the county and city ...

EDINA, Minn. — Hennepin County officials say there is no evidence of tampering after a photo was posted to social media showing an open, unattended vehicle full of ballots. The photograph was ...

The family of Lucas Bellamy — a man who died while in custody at the Hennepin County Jail two years ago — has won a $3.4 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit filed against the county.

Charges were filed Oct. 24 in Hennepin County against 26-year-old Ameer Musa Matariyeh, of Minneapolis, on the same day he was charged in Kandiyohi County. A warrant was issued in the Hennepin ...

In this file photo, a Hennepin County elections official took absentee ballots out of the enclosed envelopes as one of the steps in the count. (Tom Wallace/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Republican Party of Minnesota Chair David Hann speaks to members of the media at a press conference at the Minnesota Capitol on Thursday. The Republican Party of Minnesota is part of a lawsuit ...

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has put DNA testing at its crime lab on hold as it works to determine the source of “sporadic DNA contamination.” The sheriff’s office said it appears ...