Brooklyn Center News

Welcome to the Year of the Dragon! In collaboration with the Minnesota Boychoir, Puppet Farm Arts, and Circus Juventas, TigerLion Arts presents the world premiere of The Dragons Are Singing Tonight ~ the musical tale of a nasty dragon at the Southern Theater.

Licensed resource teacher Olivia Stewart read a story, "Ron's Big Mission," to second grade students at Earle Brown Elementary School in Brooklyn Center last September.

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. - Minnesota is banning the man known as the "Piggyback Bandit" from high school games in the state.

At 11:49 PM, a police officer was investigating a suspicious vehicle near Collins Auto Repair when the vehicle fled eastbound on Main Street traveling at speeds up to 89 mph.

After the state abruptly closed Arena Early Learning Center in Brooklyn Center, we wanted to know how parents can make sure their kids are safe at child care.

In a rare and severe enforcement action, the state has shut down a Brooklyn Center child care center, citing years of substandard staff training and other factors that created "an imminent risk to children." The move against Arena Early Learning Center, 6415 Brooklyn Blvd., took effect Wednesday.

MINNEAPOLIS - A 58-year-old Brooklyn Center man was sentenced to four years in prison, with a stayed five-year sentence, in connection with the accidental shooting death of his son last November after the two had been drinking.

Near 35th and Knox in North Minneapolis Monday night, Joan McMillan and her boyfriend Richard Persund were just sitting down to dinner with her four young children when gunfire interrupted.

Myszkowski, 52, a former member of the Osseo School Board, beat Mark Yelich, 53, a data analyst.

Minnesota's 2012 legislative session got underway Tuesday with tributes to bipartisanship and getting along, but the good feelings frayed quickly in the Senate after a committee controlled by Republicans voted to cut Senate Democrats' budget such that the Democratic leader said he'd have to lay off at least a dozen employees when the session ends.

The sign on the window reads "Best mochas in town", and that was enough for us to make a stop at Swede Hollow Cafe.

Tom Smude was honored as the Minnesota Jaycees Outstanding Young Farmer for 2011 at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center on Dec.

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. -- A crash involving multiple vehicles has shut down the westbound lanes of I-694 near Brooklyn Center Saturday morning.

Paraprofessionals, also known as educational assistants, make up a large part of today's public school education support staff.

Angela Edmondson thought it odd there was no screening at the Brookdale District Court in Brooklyn Center.