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The Cities

MPR News Notes on the news from the Twin Cities

By Trisha Volpe

Trisha Volpe
tvolpe@mpr.org

Trisha Volpe is a reporter working jointly for MPR News and KARE TV. Trisha first joined Minnesota Public Radio’s media partner KARE in 2005. She earned her law degree in 2012 from William Mitchell College of Law. She returned to journalism in 2013 as an enterprise reporter to help lead a storytelling partnership between MPR News and KARE TV. As a reporter, Trisha has covered high profile criminal and civil cases as well as many other stories of both local and national significance. She also has a degree in journalism and political science from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Trisha lives in the east metro area with her family.

There are traces of you everywhere

Trisha VolpeTrisha Volpe March 6, 2014, 6:23 AM Mar 6, 2014
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I love to understand how stuff works. So when I recently had the opportunity to peek into the world of crime-solving, I jumped at the chance. You can’t help but wonder if all those crime shows on television have it right. How can you possibly solve a complicated murder-mystery in an hour — minus 20 Read more →

Girl injured in holding pond crash on the road to recovery

Trisha VolpeTrisha Volpe January 31, 2014, 8:49 AM Jan 31, 2014
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Last November, an unlicensed driver veered off an entrance ramp and plunged into a 6-foot deep holding pond in St. Louis Park. The crash killed two of the five small children in the car. One of the survivors was underwater for several minutes. No one knows for sure how long 6-year-old Zarihana Rennie was submerged and Read more →

How to spot a police officer

Trisha VolpeTrisha Volpe November 26, 2013, 3:35 PM Nov 26, 2013
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Investigators looking for a man, or possibly two men, who impersonated a police officer and sexually assaulted two women are reminding people that any real officer will tell you his or her name and law enforcement agency. That’s one of the tips Anoka County Commander Paul Sommer shared with me today regarding your rights in Read more →

Video: Blood spatters leave clues for BCA crime lab scientists

Trisha VolpeTrisha Volpe August 16, 2013, 8:44 AM Aug 16, 2013
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If you like crime shows, stories about mysteries and really interesting forensic science, this story is for you.
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Video: Parents of children killed and injured in Lilydale Park landslide speak out

Trisha VolpeTrisha Volpe July 23, 2013, 12:04 PM Jul 23, 2013
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10-year-old Devin Meldahl was buried alive. That statement is enough to make anyone shudder. But that’s exactly what happened – and Devin lived to tell the story. It happened May 22, while Devin was on a fossil hunting field trip to Lilydale Regional Park. He was one of about 50 fourth-grade students from Peter Hobart Read more →

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