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WRIGHT COUNTY, Minn. (Gray News) - A man is accused of using a sledgehammer to kill a coworker at an industrial processing plant in Minnesota. The Wright County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were initially called early Tuesday morning to Advanced Process Technologies in Cokato after a woman was found at her workstation with significant head trauma. Authorities said a bloody sledgehammer was found on the floor next to the woman, who has not yet been publicly identified. Paramedics tried to save the woman’s life, but she died at the scene from her injuries. Investigators used surveillance footage and witness accounts...

A 27-year-old Grand Rapids man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the shooting death of his roommate, a killing that testimony showed involved a dispute over a Playstation controller. Devan James Cole pleaded guilty to the murder charge and felony firearm on Monday, March 21 in Kent County Circuit Court. Related: Man claims self-defense in roommate’s killing in dispute over PlayStation controller A charge of open murder will be dismissed at his June 1 sentencing. Testimony at an earlier hearing showed that Cole and the victim, 27-year-old Anthony Crump, lived in the same Veto Street NW rental house. Crump...