Brooklyn Center News

A 32-year-old former Minneapolis police officer charged with sexually assaulting underage girls he met on social media sites now faces an additional charge.

A mechanic who says he's gay has sued a dealership owned by St. Louis Park-based BB Motor Sales LLC over accusations that the man's coworkers accosted him with gay slurs and threats without the company doing anything, the Pioneer Press reported Monday .

A mechanic says that his co-workers at a Twin Cities car dealership accosted him with gay slurs and threats and that when he complained to superiors, the company did nothing.

Julie and Brandon Williams are high school sweethearts who imagined they would have the "perfect little family" in the small town of Milaca, an hour from the Twin Cities.

Former Minneapolis police officer Bradley Schnickel, already facing allegations that he had sex with a 14-year-old girl he met online, has been charged with six additional felony counts after seven more girls said he tried to coerce them into sexual encounters.

A "Civic Engagement Conversation" looked at how members of immigrant and minority groups can "shift our role from mere observers to active participants." "It's time for the African and African-American communities to enter into a greater dialogue," said Rev.

Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department will host a series of community conversations about a proposal to create a more convenient location for north Minneapolis residents to access services including medical, emergency, child care and food assistance, child support and homeless services.

A Brooklyn Center man is accused of purloining a large number of iPads and other electronics from a Burnsville Walmart-first as an actual employee, then as an impostor.

In the wake of last year's rejection of Hennepin County's first choice for a new social services hub in north Minneapolis , a replacement site is about to be rolled out.

A national restaurant supply store has bought a former Best Buy store in Brooklyn Center where it plans to open its second Twin Cities location.

Legislation that would require Minnesota hospitals to publicly report information on nurse staffing standards is one step closer to becoming law following a Senate vote Thursday, May 2. Backed by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party majority in the Senate, the bill passed on a 36-25 vote that fell largely along party lines.

Frame grab from YouTube video showing St. Paul police officers holding Eric Ronnell Hightower against the hood of a squad car as the officer arrests Hightower, Tuesday, Aug.

On Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., expect delays both directions on I-494 between Highway 100 and Penn Avenue.

Tuition reductions, more scholarships and digital books all add up to a more affordable education for students at Globe University and Minnesota School of Business campuses in three states.