Convicted sex offender Joseph John Couture, 41, was arraigned on charges Monday of intentional second-degree murder and second-degree criminal sexual conduct in the 2000 death of Trina Langenbrunner. The 33-year-old mother of three was found with fatal stab wounds in southern St. Louis County 12 years ago.

Police have made an arrest in a 32-year-old homicide case, the Star Tribune reports. The arrest in Kansas last week stems from November 1980, when a 22-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in her basement apartment at 3242 Girard Ave. S., Sgt. Bill Palmer of the Minneapolis Police Department said.

A man in prison for a different crime reportedly told investigators that he killed a Minneapolis man decades ago. Sixty-one-year-old Michael John Husten was originally a suspect in the case but police were never able to gather enough evidence to charge him.

A Thief River Falls woman was found dead Sunday in rural Pennington County, and the case has been ruled a homicide. Tanya Marie Kazmierczak, 40, had been missing since Saturday morning. A 31-year-old Crookston man has been arrested in connection with the case.

The County Seat Theater Company, of Clouquet, has been invited to perform in the World Children's Festival of Performing Arts in Toyama, Japan later this month.