crime and courts

A recent United States Supreme Court decision prompted evidence to be suppressed and charges to be dropped against a suspected burglar in February. The Supreme Court's decision in the case of the United States vs. Jones ruled that police need to obtain a warrant before attaching...

The psychiatrist appointed by the court says Aaron Schaffhausen was sane when he murdered his three little daughters. The clinical psychologist hired by the defense says he was not. Psychiatrist Ralph K. Baker testified Monday, and psychologist J. Reid Meloy took the stand Tuesday...

A felony theft charge has been filed against an elderly New Richmond woman in connection with the alleged misappropriation of more than $100,000 from a joint account with her mother. The criminal complaint, filed by the St. Croix County district attorney, alleges that on Aug. 6,...

Judge Howard Cameron fielded a slew of motions in the Aaron Schaffhausen murder case Thursday, including one filed recently. The St. Croix County judge accepted Schaffhausen's plea of not guilty by mental defect or illness filed by the defense the previous day for a ruling at the...

A Hammond man's suit against Twin Cities-based Teamsters Local Union 974 has resulted in federal charges. The National Labor Relations Board regional office in Minneapolis issued a formal complaint against the union after Dylan McHenry, Hammond filed federal charges against the union...

A man accused in the murder of his three daughters last summer did not meet the court's deadline for entering a not guilty by reason of insanity plea Friday. Public defender John Kuscinski said his client, Aaron Schaffhausen would most likely appear in court next at a scheduled hearing...

Around two or three times a month, the Hammond Village Park is vandalized in some way, said Hammond Police Chief Rick Coltrain. Coltrain said most of the vandalism is minor, like broken soap dispensers and minor damage to picnic tables. The park bathrooms, Coltrain said, take...

The driver of a van that was reportedly stolen, led St. Croix sheriff's deputies and on a 19-mile chase early Monday before the vehicle was eventually stopped by Minnesota authorities on a rural road, south east of Woodbury. A man was taken into custody. St. Croix Dispatch Center...

The Village of Hammond has filed suit against Ayres Associates Inc. (Eau Claire). According to the complaint Hammond filed, Ayres was contracted in 2004 to engineer and design wastewater treatment facilities for Hammond including up to four discharge seepage cells with a calculated...

Hon. Brad Nemac, municipal judge of the Village of Somerset, attended the municipal judge traffic seminar conducted by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Office of Judicial Education on Sept. 13-14 at The Hyatt on Main in Green Bay. Thursday's session began with an open forum presented...