An informant, police tracking of vehicles and an undercover officer helped lead to five people who are now charged with copper wire theft from St. Paul streetlights with an estimated repair cost to the city of more than $200,000, according to recently filed criminal complaints. In another case charged Friday, St. Paul police discovered 45 damaged streetlights with an estimated repair cost of .
Farmington, N.Y. — A convicted rapist and his girlfriend face a slew of felony charges in an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting three people involved in the