Mario Cortolezzis, 36 of Waconia, has been charged with four counts of theft and four counts of theft by swindle (all felonies), according to a press release from Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom.

A 26-year-old Chanhassen man was sentenced earlier today in federal court in Minneapolis

for obstructing a FBI and grand jury investigation into the recruitment of young men in the

United States to train and fight for extremist groups in Somalia, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office . United States District Court Judge James M. Rosenbaum sentenced Abdow Munye Abdow to an eight-month split sentence

Carver County Attorney Jim Keeler announced today that Phillip Lee Graunke (DOB: 6/20/1989) of Prior Lake,  was sentenced to four years in prison for the aggravated robbery of a convenience store in Waconia in August 2009, according to a press release from the Carver County Attorney's Office.  

By Forrest Adams

A 51-year-old Chanhassen man is out on bail following a brief stint in Carver County Jail after he was taken into custody on March 12 on suspicion he had committed identity theft.

Christopher Fuhrman is asking the courts to clear his record of homicide charges, almost four years after the brutal murder of Nancy Everson.

The 52-year-old wife and mother of two, was shot dead in her Chaska home on Jan. 15, 2006.

Four individuals were later charged in her death, including her son Grant and his friends Joel Beckrich, Michael Gulden and Fuhrman.

Popular local burger eatery Lions Tap has reached a settlement with McDonald's Corp.

By Forrest Adams

Carver County prosecutors filed a “John Doe” warrant complaint Tuesday against an “unknown male” suspect in a November 2006 Chanhassen home invasion.

(Update on story from last week's print edition.)

A bid to force a school board election this fall in District 112 has been denied.

A Carver County jury found Chaska teen Brody Bermel (Roehlke) not guilty on all charges in the death of Kirk Anderson. Bermel, 17, was charged with three counts of murder for his involvement in an altercation on Aug. 6, 2008 in which he struck Anderson with a steel pipe, ultimately resulting in his death. Bermel's attorney argued that Bermel was acting in self defense. The verdict was returned shortly after 6 p.m. after approximately six hours of deliberation.