A man who pleaded guilty to robbery charges following the triple murder at the Seward Market in Minneapolis is going to prison for 18 years. A judge delivered the sentence Wednesday.

Eighteen-year-old Mahdi Ali was found guilty last month in the triple slaying and robbery.

Police believe the deaths of an Oakdale couple and their nanny were a murder-suicide. The three were found dead by the couple's six-year-old daughter when she returned home from school. A three-year-old boy was in the home at the time and reportedly told neighbors that his father killed his mother.

A 17-year-old and a 15-year-old have been charged with murder in last week's shooting that claimed the life of Nizzel George in north Minneapolis. According to a criminal complaint, the 17-year-old told a witness that he fired at the house where the young boy was sleeping last Tuesday.

The men were convicted of breaking into a couple's home and killing both adults and the woman's 15-year-old daughter in front of two younger children. The judge told them: "You only get one life ... and you will be spending the rest of yours in jail."

Delbert Huber was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years and 7 months in prison for the killing of Timothy Larson, 43, a middle school teacher from Albertville. The case shocked the rural community roughly 95 miles west of the Twin Cities.

A three-judge panel denied a convicted rapist's request for a provisional discharge Friday over concerns of public safety. John Ryberg, 70, has admitted to committing more than 90 sex offenses dating back decades. He hoped to move to a Twin Cities halfway house from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program campus in St. Peter.

Douglas County prosecutors have dropped their charges against Michael Hansen. His murder conviction was overturned in light of new evidence that his three-month-old daughter died of accidental suffocation. Hansen says he can't get his six years back and just wants to move on with his life.