Waite Park, MN (trfnews.i234.me)—A Stearns County judge has convicted Jarquez Javon Bedford, 30, of first-degree murder in the 2023 killing of 52-year-old Andrea Rae Cottew following a bench trial earlier this month. Authorities discovered Cottew’s body inside her Park Meadows Drive apartment on February 6, 2023, after responding to a welfare check. The investigation revealed… Continue reading Waite Park Murder Verdict: Jarquez Bedford Found Guilty in Stearns County Trial