A mother in Austin, Minn. stepped onto her porch Tuesday morning to find a raccoon biting her three-year-old daughter. The girl was treated at the hospital for four puncture wounds and scratches. Austin police say there's been a growing concern over sick raccoons in the city.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested and is in police custody.

A Maple Grove woman faces felony charges including child endangerment for allegedly sharing heroin with her 12-year-old daughter regularly enough to get the girl hooked. According to investigators, Rebecca Hill says she kept providing the drugs to keep her daughter from going through withdrawal. Police say Hill provided a false name when she was arrested for shoplifting. She faces up to 25 years in prison.

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 Burnsville man is accused of punching a 13-year-old girl in the face during an altercation July 4. Jerome Ellis Cox, 50, has been charged with malicious punishment of a child after he allegedly punched the girl in the face twice when she got in-between Cox and a woman he was arguing with.

A second teenager is charged with first-degree murder in last summer's slaying of a 13-year-old boy, according to an indictment unsealed this week in Minneapolis. Derrick Deangelo Catchings, 16, was certified this week to stand trial as an adult for the Aug. 24 death of Ray'Jon Gomez.

First-degree murder charges were filed Friday in Sheboygan County court against two Wisconsin teens accused of killing the great-grandmother of one of the boys. The boys, who are both 13, are accused of killing 78-year-old Barbara Olson with a hatchet and hammer while stealing jewelry and a car from Olson's home.

Another 13-year-old was in the passenger seat.