Make us your homepage | Subscriptions

The Northern Valley's most up-to-date site.

Published November 30, 2012, 12:00 AM

Sterns County Police


A Stearns County Deputy searches roofs of buildings with the help of the Cold Spring Fire Department near the scene where a Cold Spring police officer was fatally shot late Thursday in Cold Spring, Minn. on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. Officer Tom Decker was responding to a report of a suicidal man late Thursday when he was shot twice after getting out of his squad car near an apartment behind a bar in downtown Cold Spring. He died at the scene. Ryan Michael Larson, 34, of Cold Spring, was being held Friday on suspicion of second-degree murder. The county attorney's office was considering criminal charges. (AP Photo/The St. Cloud Times, Jason Wachter)
Read the article: Friend: Minnesota cop-killing suspect 'not a monster'