Just a few months after someone threw 30-pound dead carp at Orono police vehicles in the far west metro, officers on Friday found two badly burned vehicles.

Authorities believe the damage to the city aquatic center and pool equipment happened sometime last week. Police are investigating whether this vandalism was connected to a recent break-in at a nearby elementary school.

Authorities on Tuesday who were searching for a suspected stolen BMW in Loeb Lake in St. Paul found the car -- along with a second submerged vehicle. Crews were preparing to tow both cars out of the water. It's believed no one was in the BMW went it went into the water Tuesday morning. Police are looking for two men seen running from the scene.

Student researchers from St. Mary's University say the amount of technology inside a squad car is a direct factor in the growing number of police-involved car accidents. Nearly one out of every seven police-involved crashes over the past few years were because of distracted driving.

An unnamed bank executive reported an implied threat spray painted on his Woodbury home's garage door. The message said 'I'm back...more to come.' It comes after a series of threats to the bank's employees last year.

The police report says when an officer told the woman she could not leave her child behind in a car, she apparently replied "even in Minnesota?" The Woodbury Bulletin says authorities reported it to child protective services.

With the help of a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, computer scientists and biologists from the U have developed robotic boats -- called Carp Trackers -- that can locate and follow carp, allowing officials to net and remove the fish from lakes and rivers.