Images showing an explosion of sparks and a dense layer of smoke and dust opened the trial of Derrick John Thompson on Thursday in the deaths of five young Somali women killed in a vicious car crash ...

A Hennepin County Jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of Derrick John Thompson for the deaths of five young women in a catastrophic car crash. The verdict is expected to be read at about 3 ...

Derrick Thompson, who is accused of causing a crash that killed five young Somali women in Minneapolis last year, has rejected a plea deal offered to him in August and will take the case to a jury. At ...

Two years after the fact, Derrick John Thompson finally admitted Thursday that he was driving the car that killed five young women in a Minneapolis crash. His confession and plea for forgiveness in ...

The only defense presented by Derrick John Thompson in his murder trial is that his brother, Damarco Thompson, was driving the Cadillac Escalade that crashed into a Honda Civic and killed five young ...

He was not the driver. That’s what Derrick Thompson’s attorney subtly introduced to jurors Thursday as Thompson’s murder trial got underway in the south Minneapolis crash that killed five young women ...

A plea deal is on the table for the son of a former St. Paul state representative accused of running a red light just off Interstate 35W in south Minneapolis last summer and crashing into a sedan, ...