A 32-year-old St. Paul man is accused of fleeing law enforcement and crashing a vehicle into a tree, killing his girlfriend of five years, who was in the passenger seat.

A man has been arrested after a suspected stolen car crashed with a police vehicle. Cleveland Police said officers tried to stop the driver of the car in Darlington Back Lane, Stockton, shortly after midnight. After the driver failed to stop, the car collided with the police vehicle and a pursuit ensued, the force said.

A Twin Cities man with a long criminal record is accused of crashing a stolen vehicle while fleeing police in St. Paul on Friday evening, killing his girlfriend the day before her 29th birthday.

A car thief fleeing law enforcement from a Twin Cities shopping mall crashed into a tree and killed his girlfriend in the vehicle with him, according to charges filed Monday. Dylan John Smith, 32, of St.