By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent 

A 35-year-old Prior Lake woman faces criminal sexual conduct charges after admitting to police that she was involved in an ongoing sexual relationship with her son’s 15-year-old friend.

By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent 

A 45-year-old man from Savage has been charged with third-degree assault after he allegedly punched his wife in the face and broke her nose.

By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent 

A Prior Lake man was one of two people indicted on fraud charges in federal court last week for his alleged role in an elaborate scam that bilked mortgage lenders of $2.5 million in less than a year.

By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent 

By law, there are a plethora of conditions that convicted sex offenders have to follow, but requiring a chiropractor from Savage to tell his patients in his Minneapolis practice that he sexually assaulting two of his former patients isn’t one of them.

By Nancy Huddleston, Editor

The Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday (March 3) regarding an appeal of the Craigslist murder conviction.

By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent 

A 40-year-old man from Savage has been sentenced to serve a month in jail and up to two years of probation after he pleaded guilty last week to sexually assaulting his estranged wife in their home last April.

By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent 

A repeat drunken driving offender was sentenced to serve two days in jail and four years of probation after she pleaded guilty to second-degree DWI-test refusal in Scott County District Court. It was the second time in 10 years that she had children in her vehicle at the time of her arrest.

By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent

Former Prior Lake police officer Michael Alan Ficken will spend a month behind bars after he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges in Scott County District Court on Tuesday morning just prior to the case going to trial.

James Arthur Ray, the leader of a sweat lodge ceremony that turned deadly in northern Arizona last October, was released from the Camp Verde jail last week after spending about 23 days behind bars.

Following two days of testimony in which defense attorneys argued that Ray couldn’t afford $5 million bail – and prosecuting attorneys argued the contrary – Yavapai County Judge Warren Darrow lowered the spiritual guru’s bail amount to $525,000, which he posted just prior to his release on Feb. 26.

By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent 

The 18-year-old man police believe was responsible for committing a series of daytime burglaries between September and December of last year was sentenced to serve six months in jail Monday afternoon (Feb. 22) in Scott County District Court.