Deena Winter
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Deena Winter is Minneapolis City Hall reporter for the Star Tribune.
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One Minneapolis police lieutenant earned about $500,000 last year amid record overtime costs
MPD says 66 of its employees collected more than $100,000 in overtime in 2024. Internal Affairs is investigating several officers.
July 12, 2025
Minneapolis City Council votes to study new ways to tax city's richest residents and businesses
New taxes on the wealthy, such as a city income or payroll tax, would likely need changes to state or federal laws.
July 11, 2025
Preppers distance themselves from Boelter, say their movement is about defense, not violence
Prosecutors say Vance Boelter was a “prepper” who told his family he went to war the day he killed a lawmaker and her husband.
June 30, 2025
5 Minneapolis mayoral candidates say they’d discipline Police Chief O’Hara for federal raid; Frey disagrees
All of Frey’s challengers at a recent forum said they would ‘hold accountable’ the chief for being present at a south Minneapolis raid.
June 27, 2025
A devout Christian with failed ambitions and an arsenal of firearms who chose ‘war’
Vance Boelter had visions of business success at home and abroad. But in the words of one acquaintance, he was “living a double life.”
June 21, 2025
Suspect showed few signs of political extremism before lawmaker shootings
Friends and associates say Vance Boelter, who was apprehended late Sunday and charged with murdering a state lawmaker and her husband, was mild-mannered and did not appear to be fixated on politics.
June 16, 2025
Who is Vance Boelter, the man police identified as suspect in the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman?
Law enforcement sources identified Vance Luther Boelter, 57, as the main target of a massive law enforcement manhunt after he allegedly fled from Melissa Hortman’s home following a police shootout in the wake of her killing.
June 15, 2025
Crime is top of mind in Minneapolis streets, but the upcoming city election? Not so much.
Voters will determine control of City Hall when they cast their ballots in November. Here’s what some residents said in conversations about the state of the city.
June 14, 2025
A devout Christian with failed ambitions and an arsenal of firearms who chose ‘war’
Vance Boelter had visions of business success at home and abroad. But in the words of one acquaintance, he was “living a double life.”
June 21, 2025
Suspect showed few signs of political extremism before lawmaker shootings
Friends and associates say Vance Boelter, who was apprehended late Sunday and charged with murdering a state lawmaker and her husband, was mild-mannered and did not appear to be fixated on politics.
June 16, 2025
Who is Vance Boelter, the man police identified as suspect in the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman?
Law enforcement sources identified Vance Luther Boelter, 57, as the main target of a massive law enforcement manhunt after he allegedly fled from Melissa Hortman’s home following a police shootout in the wake of her killing.
June 15, 2025
Crime is top of mind in Minneapolis streets, but the upcoming city election? Not so much.
Voters will determine control of City Hall when they cast their ballots in November. Here’s what some residents said in conversations about the state of the city.
June 14, 2025