Paul Walsh

@pwalshstrib.bsky.social

Minnesota Star Tribune reporter. Not retiring until 11/23/2037. You figure it out.

998 Followers | 211 Following | 121 Posts | Joined: 15.11.2024 | 1.6271

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White Bear Lake superintendent details how man, 22, faked his way as high school student-athlete Police now say they are investigating the man’s possible “unlawful conduct involving interactions with minors.”

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02.10.2025 22:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Charges: Armed bandits hold Twin Cities family captive, rob them of $8 million in cryptocurrency “The Garcia brothers terrorized a Minnesota family in their own home ... in order to conduct a brazen cryptocurrency theft,” said the FBI’s Minneapolis special agent in charge.

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25.09.2025 20:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Autistic girl dies in Minnesota home’s squalid bedroom, where parents kept her captive, charges say The charges said the girl and her older sister, also autistic, were held in cage-style beds for long stretches.

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24.09.2025 21:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Twin Cities charges: Man unleashes sweeping violent threats in retaliation for Charlie Kirk killing “These threats are chilling and extremely graphic,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty read.

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20.09.2025 18:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

St. Olaf football player is identified as victim fatally shot in South St. Paul home; man wounded A suspect was arrested about 2 hours later, according to police.

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12.09.2025 21:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Carjacker fleeing officers hits car, kills 2 ‘completely innocent people,’ Minneapolis police say “Because of one person’s reckless and violent behavior,” the chief said, “this person clearly endangered hundreds of people’s lives in such a short period of time.”

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04.09.2025 20:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

State Patrol: Driver who hit mother, kids in Twin Cities intersection and fled is police chaplain One of the children, age 2, remains in critical condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.

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30.08.2025 17:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kids injured in Annunciation Church shooting showed bravery amid chaos Families are sharing the extent of their children’s injuries as well as stories of their courage and resilience while protecting their friends and “little buddies.”

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29.08.2025 22:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watch: Twin Cities cop’s parking lot close call with frenetic deer creates unintended viral moment The doe reached top speed and sailed toward the officer, front legs fully extended.

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19.07.2025 20:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Woman attacked by black bear in Wisconsin is ID’d, hospitalized in Twin Cities in critical condition “Efforts to capture the bear are ongoing,” a DNR statement noted. “The goal is to euthanize the bear and assess its condition.”

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14.07.2025 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Minnesota Vikings player lost $240K in bank fraud scheme, according to Twin Cities police The scam began with a call to linebacker Dallas Turner by someone impersonating a banker, a court filing read.

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08.07.2025 19:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Minnesota couple used ‘only warning system they had’ to save others from raging Texas floodwaters The husband and wife raced to their vehicles and honked out the warning to others in the campground, their son said.

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07.07.2025 21:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cross-country travelers passing through Minnesota pull off life-saving Mississippi River rescue An East Coast couple driving through the Winona area saw a vehicle roll down an embankment and into the river. One of them plunged into the water after it while the other called 911.

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30.06.2025 22:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Minnesota driver towing fish house dies, husband and 5 kids injured in 2-vehicle crash The collision occurred north of Lake Mille Lacs, the State Patrol said.

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30.06.2025 14:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Life of Metro Transit’s Beverly Rodriguez to be celebrated after posthumous promotion to lieutenant Celebration of life is scheduled for Friday at Stillwater Area High School.

Life of Metro Transit’s Beverly Rodriguez to be celebrated after posthumous promotion to lieutenant. Her promotion “reflects not only what she accomplished in her time with us, but how high we know she would have climbed in the years ahead.” startribune.com/woman-dies-d...

26.06.2025 12:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eat Street drive-by shooting last year in Minneapolis leads to prison sentence for killer The shooter used a “ghost gun,” which is difficult to trace.

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21.06.2025 22:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Guns by the dozens, cash, disguises: Court filing lists what investigators found in suspect’s home The items were seized from the home of Vance Boelter while the manhunt was still in its early stage, according to a court filing by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

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21.06.2025 19:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Guns by the dozens, cash, disguises: court filing lists what investigators found in suspect’s home The items were seized from the home of Vance Boelter while the manhunt was still in its early stage, according to a court filing by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

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20.06.2025 22:07 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Worker recounts North Shore tunnel crash that left him stranded high above badly injured crewmate The driver and one of the workers were airlifted in critical condition, the patrol said.

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19.06.2025 21:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Twin Cities driver dies, passenger badly hurt after 2 vehicles cross into wrong lane in tandem The surviving motorist is suspected of being under the influence of alcohol at the time.

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18.06.2025 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Darnella Frazier, who recorded George Floyd’s murder by police, speaks out on 5th anniversary She calls those moments at a Minneapolis street corner “a traumatic experience in my life.”

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26.05.2025 14:24 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

In memory of Bode: The best dog ever

Many of us have been lucky enough to love 💕 and eventually mourn 😰 a pet who was, for us, “the best dog (or cat or [fill in] ) ever.” This is an obit we can all have tried to write ✍️ ourselves . . .

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25.05.2025 11:48 — 👍 8825 🔁 1113 💬 501 📌 56

Minnesota man clicks email link, watches Bitcoin fortune drain away According to an investigator’s affidavit, the Twin Cities man clicked a phishing link, then quickly opened his Coinbase app “and saw his digital assets were being moved out of his wallet” with no abil...

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25.05.2025 14:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Murder charge dropped in Twin Cities cold case tied to Texas man on death row Bloomington police and law enforcement from several states have been searching for the remains of April Pease since she was believed kidnapped from a Twin Cities shelter in 2009.

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22.05.2025 12:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Man admits to fatally choking girlfriend in her downtown St. Paul home Moments after the killing, Kelvin Perry stepped in front of a light-rail train and was struck, the criminal complaint read.

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20.05.2025 19:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Minnesota truck driver gets in crash and leaves scene where teen in SUV dies, officials say One of the teen’s passengers was critically injured, the Sheriff’s Office said.

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10.05.2025 13:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Former Viking Adrian Peterson arrested in Twin Cities on a DWI allegation The State Patrol booked him into jail Friday morning.

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25.04.2025 13:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Police suspect Sun Country employee stole NFC title ring that ex-Gopher lost while on flight Police say the former Philadelphia Eagle lost the ring while traveling from the Twin Cities to Arizona.

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18.04.2025 18:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

People killed in Twin Cities mobile home fire ID’d as woman, her daughter A family member said her father survived the blaze.

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17.04.2025 16:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Twin Cities senior center to pay woman who felt pressured to quit over pregnancy The woman resigned from the Inver Grove Heights assisted living facility following harassment and threats from management, according to a lawsuit she filed.

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15.04.2025 15:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Sports coverage from the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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Childless catless postmenopausal lady, living in SoMpls with my boyfriend, happy with my choices. Agnostic, humanist, feminist, environmentalist. Save the Boundary Waters!

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I am a passionate educator and researcher, currently living in Minneapolis, Minnesota with my longtime partner and two cats. He/him.

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Professor, University of St. Thomas (MN) Law. Former PD. Criminal law/policing. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2441245

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Minnesota sports fan. Bbq enthusiast.

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Retired. BS in Accounting. Spent the last 30+ years in computers. Love history, Star Trek, music, books, sports, and cats. Budding foodie.

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I report about the outdoors and environment for the Minnesota Star Tribune. So come here for some outside stories. Send me tips via Signal @GregStanley.21