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August 5, 2017
Dean Phillips, who is running for Congress against Republican incumbent Erik Paulsen, turned heads in Brooklyn Park by arriving in a 1960 Internationa

Tevlin: Dean Phillips taking his campaign for Congress to the people

Phillips knows it's an uphill battle against Rep. Erik Paulsen, but he's been there before.
East Metro
August 4, 2017

North/East metro police blotter, Aug. 6

East Metro
August 4, 2017

North/East metro news briefs: Wetland boardwalk to open in Blaine

East Metro
August 4, 2017

Columbia Heights Thai restaurant owner charged with forced labor

Federal authorities say a young man was lured from the Dominican Republic by the restaurant owner with promises of American schooling, but then found himself under a "debt bondage arrangement."
North Metro
August 3, 2017

TreeHouse Foods to close Brooklyn Park plant, idle 90

The Chicago-based foodmaker produced boxed dinners and side dishes at the site.
North Metro
August 2, 2017

Officials: Driver who hit East Bethel road worker was checking phone

Teen was on Snapchat, woman "had no chance to move," her fiancé said.
North Metro
August 2, 2017
A manufactured home no longer sits on the lot it once occupied in Lowry Grove mobile home park on June 30 in St. Anthony.

Deal reached in hotly contested St. Anthony mobile home park sale

The agreement involves a new fund to help displaced residents.
North Metro
August 2, 2017
A Coon Rapids snow plow clears away hail from a June storm that battered the metro and left behind more than $600,000 in damage to Anoka County public

Anoka County gets state aid for damage from June 11 storm

East Metro
August 1, 2017
Correctional officers patrolled the grounds after an inmate hijacked a transport van full of prisoners from the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Lin

Inmate behind Lino Lakes prison van escape charged with kidnapping others aboard

James Mitchell, the inmate who hijacked a transport van in May, is facing felony charges that could mean decades more in prison.
South Metro
August 1, 2017
Lucifer Nguyen

Fugitive in Mendota Heights murder captured after more than 3 days

Lucifer Nguyen was captured late Monday night after a manhunt that lasted more than three days, the Dakota County Sheriff's Office confirmed. He was charged with murder as part of a violent crime spree in the Mendota Heights area over the weekend.
North Metro
August 1, 2017

Road worker critically injured by distracted driver in East Bethel

A driver believed to have been distracted hit a woman holding a sign in a construction zone Monday in East Bethel, leaving the worker in grave condition, the Anoka County Sheriff's Office said.
North Metro
August 1, 2017
Five-mile stretch of I-694 in north metro to close overnight Tuesday

Five-mile stretch of I-694 in north metro to close overnight Tuesday

Drivers on I-35E in Forest Lake will also face an overnight detour.
North Metro
July 28, 2017
Tracy Godfrey leads a computer class through the WAFCS at Brooklyn United Methodist Church. (Courtesy of Edmund Ocansey)

Brooklyn Center service program aims to help West Africans with traditional food, computer training

The West African Family Community Services program now offers a food and clothing bank, computer classes and free legal aid out of a church.
East Metro
July 28, 2017

North/East metro police blotter, July 30

East Metro
July 28, 2017

North/East metro news briefs: Arden Hills finance chief departs

North Metro
July 26, 2017
Jerry Longo unhooked a strap from the reins of "Caress of Steel" after he massaged her legs Wednesday night in the stables of Running Aces.

Columbus City Council delays vote on proposed asphalt plant

Bituminous Roadways wants to build the plant near where Interstates 35W and 35E converge. But opponents, including Running Aces Casino and Horsetrack, aren't happy.
East Metro
July 26, 2017

Arden Hills will allow organic waste site

City rejected the proposal when approached in 2014.
West Metro
July 26, 2017

$200,000 in bookkeeping thievery earns Mound woman a year in jail

Most of the money was stolen from a north metro community college foundation.
North Metro
July 26, 2017
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Playground torched in Coon Rapids park, suspects sought

The fire happened Friday night at Delta Park.
North Metro
July 25, 2017
Minnesota Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau

Wild's Boudreau among owners of new Twin Cities junior hockey team

The Tier III expansion team is based in Coon Rapids and will debut its 44-game schedule at home Sept. 22. The Wild coach will attend tryouts this weekend.

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