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HCMC bleeding with deep cuts
Of all hospitals in Minnesota facing economic woes, Hennepin County Medical Center is the hardest hit.
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Anoka County closes jail, cuts costs
With fewer prisoners, the county closed its medium security prison, reducing its budget by $400,000 so far.
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North Metro prep sports
- Drama is gone as Centennial girls pull together
- Totino-Grace defense faces stiff challenge in Sartell
- First-team defense
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East Metro
Washington County raises cost of going to jail
Commissioners increase booking fees to $25 to be consistent with other counties and to help offset costs.
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- Holiday lights: Send us suggestions
- Federal prosecutor to join First District Court in Hastings
- Enhanced penalty possible for West St. Paul teacher guilty of sex abuse
- Minnesota may use private prison in Appleton
- Video advances are a big crime-solving aid in metro area
- Teacher guilty of sexual contact with girl
- A new generation of high school sports coverage
East Metro prep sports
- Totino-Grace defense faces stiff challenge in Sartell
- All-metro second, third teams
- Eden Prairie takes red-eye flight
Today's East Metro events
South Metro
Rollover closes ramp from Hwy 52 South to I-494 East
A semitrailer truck rolled over on a highway ramp in the southeast metro late Wednesday morning, and the ramp is expected to be closed well into the evening rush hour, authorities said.
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- Dakota Co. drug felon charged with having sex with teenaged baby-sitter
- Mother, daughter convicted in day care death
- Perking up in Shakopee
- Movable barriers could ease south-metro traffic
- Scott County: Infrastructure, transit top issues
- Lakeville Arts Center may seek endowment
- Northfield's beloved bookmobile goes back in garage
South Metro prep sports
- Title drought ongoing for southern hockey teams
- Tuesday's prep schedule
- All-metro second, third teams
Today's South Metro events
West Metro
A bridge worth saving, but no money to save it
Carver's quandary: Main Street bridge is too dilapidated to maintain, yet too historic to replace.
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West Metro prep sports
- Keeping focus important for Breck
- Tuesday's prep schedule
- Metro Player of Year: Wayzata's A.J. Tarpley
Today's West Metro events
Suspended lawyer Garcia to spend Thanksgiving in jail
Garcia wears orange tennis shoes to court. The troubled lawyer will stay in jail for the holidays.
Judge: Hecker must pay support to estranged wife
His pleas of poverty notwithstanding, former auto mogul Denny Hecker must pay Tamitha Hecker $7,500 in monthly support, a judge said in an order released today.
Mother, daughter convicted in day care death
A mother and daughter who ran a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week day care out of their Bloomington home were convicted of two counts each of manslaughter in the death of a toddler who died from asphyxiation.
Dakota Co. drug felon charged with having sex with teenaged baby-sitter
A convicted meth cook is now accused of having sex repeatedly with a teenaged baby-sitter years ago.
Retired Minneapolis cop pulls 2 women from burning boat in Florida
Harry Baltzer pulled the women, injured in an explosion on the boat, seconds before a another explosion left it engulfed in flames.
10 years in prison for robbing Brooklyn Center bank of $1,700
An armed robber who held up a Brooklyn Center bank and tried in vain to flee the scene has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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- Pawlenty's lawyer defends cuts to nutrition program
- Effort builds to repeal nuclear power ban
- Legislators take a field trip to the Metrodome
- Library is pressed to take gang force report off Web
- Quam exits firm to help husband run for governor
- Backed by House, 6 patients sue Pawlenty, state officials
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