Ramsey County documents: Sheriff used taxpayer funds to plan new school
Contracts mention Sheriff's Office employees working with students
Suburban school board races emerge as partisan battleground
Fervent challenges to pandemic precautions and racial equity policies have turned what are sometimes sleepy off-year elections into partisan battles across Twin Cities suburbs.
East Metro
Ramsey County Board gives sheriff $869K for civil unrest
Tensions simmer over budgets, charter school plan
Colleges
Ex-University of St. Thomas football player guilty of raping fellow student in dorm
Nicholas R. Schnack transferred to Drake and joined the football team there, but left that school once the charges were filed, his attorney said.
St. Paul
Eye on St. Paul Q&A: Joe Spencer, Downtown Alliance president
The Downtown Alliance president talks COVID, crime and the future of downtown.
East Metro
St. Paul school board chair diagnosed with COVID-19
St. Paul school board Chair Jeanelle Foster has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and is recovering at home after being hospitalized Friday, the district announced Monday.Foster,…
East Metro
Woodbury woman charged with killing daughter, 5, ruled incompetent to stand trial
A judge has ordered her to be civilly committed for six months while her murder case is put on hold.
East Metro
St. Paul charter school superintendent to step down after $4.3M hedge fund loss
Move follows $4.3 million hedge fund investment loss.
Local
St. Paul police searching for suspect in East Side hit-and-run
St. Paul police were searching Saturday for a 30-year-old man suspected in a hit-and-run incident that killed a pedestrian in the Battle Creek neighborhood on…
Local
Five injured in early morning house explosion in Cambridge
"The fact that anyone walked out of it is miraculous."
East Metro
Driver in fiery transit station crash was White Bear Lake man
The driver killed last weekend in a fiery crash at a new Metro Transit station off Interstate 35W in south Minneapolis was a 25-year-old White…
East Metro
From books to free food, Stillwater family builds on Little Free Library legacy
For more than two years now, Tony Bol and his wife Eden Penn have made wooden boxes for people who want to install them in their front yards to share something: books, food, seeds. Even poetry.
East Metro
Ramsey County considers fines for restaurant, other license violations
County is moving away from criminal penalties.
East Metro
New push to divert youth from juvenile court in Ramsey County stirs controversy
New Ramsey County effort aims to rehabilitate teens, but sheriff says it lets dangerous youth go free.
East Metro
Twin Cities metro police blotter, Oct. 17
ANDOVERSEPT. 28Disorderly conduct. An officer responded to a report of five kids who were being loud and disorderly and appeared to be drunk in a…
East Metro
Endangered bird, bee found on Maplewood development sites
Environmental groups say the results are proof Ramsey County, the property owner, should rethink possible plans to redevelop the shuttered 88-acre Ponds at Battle Creek golf course and a second 77-acre grassland site.
Business
Some worry St. Paul Port Authority is not listening to community hopes for Hillcrest
Housing advocates want the site to provide more amenities, affordable housing.
East Metro
History center opens in Stillwater after years of planning
After years of planning and renovation, the museum opens this weekend
Business
Amazon to build a fourth Twin Cities warehouse in Woodbury
Dubbed "Project Belle" to avoid publicly naming the tenant, the online retailer expects to hire 500 to 1,000 workers.
East Metro
Oakdale man charged with shooting at law enforcement, officers exchanging gunfire identified
The man was later taken to a hospital and placed on a mental health hold.
East Metro
As park usage surges, Ramsey County leaders say 'dawn-to-dusk' rule may no longer make sense
Officials say the "dawn-to-dusk" rule may no longer make sense.
East Metro
Charges: Driver drunk when he crashed pickup and killed one of his passengers in Forest Lake
The passenger who died worked at the bar where the driver was drinking for hours, according to the charges.
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