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Sunday | Star Tribune

How I Got That Job: Christie Gambino, 53, Brooklyn Park

Salary: I honestly don't know what I make now. [My schedule is changing.] That's the thing with culinary.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

Star Tribune

Danish drugmaker closing Brooklyn Park facility

MN has got to stop taxing the people & the businesses here to death! This state will become a ghost town very soon if something isn't done! Unemployment: Worst rate in 26 years D anish drugmaker Genmab A/S is shutting down its manufacturing facility in Brooklyn Park and laying off 130 employees.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

West Metro

Mom says son held dying friend shot by St. Louis Park officer

Details still unknown about altercation that led an off-duty St. Louis Park police officer to shoot a passenger in a parking lot where the driver had hit a traffic cone.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

North Metro

3 charged with Medicaid fraud

The owner of a Brooklyn Park personal care firm and two workers have been charged in federal court with fraudulently getting more than $89,000 from Medicaid.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

North Metro

Coon Rapids bank robber's 'mistake' costs him years in prison

A 22-year-old man has been sentenced in federal court to more than four years in prison for making "a mistake": holding up at gunpoint a Coon Rapids bank last spring and then fleeing from police.

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

North Metro

Dad forgives, but son's killer gets 23 years in prison

Romel Jones Sr. was succinct Friday as he addressed the judge at the sentencing of his eldest son's killer.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

North Metro

Police to be on lookout for DWI revelers

Halloween revelers in northern Hennepin County suburbs may run into some uniformed characters who aren't looking for treats or party fun Saturday night.

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Wed Oct 28, 2009

North Metro

Work begins on extending Hwy. 610 into Maple Grove

Work crews from Rivard Contractors started clearing trees near Jefferson Highway as work began Tuesday on the $48 million extension of Hwy.

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Mon Oct 26, 2009

Star Tribune

Crackdown on home health care agency follows Fox9 investigation

Back in March, Fox9 reporter Trish Van Pilsum used the weak but determined voice of a patient on a ventilator and interviews with six former employees to paint a damning portrait of a home health care company called Ometta Vent Care Services.

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Sat Oct 24, 2009

Exhibitor Online

Star Exhibits & Environments Supports Community Outreach by Partnering with Local Charities

Each quarter Star's Implementation Team, a select group of informal leaders, identifies areas of the company that have opportunity for improvement and outreach.

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Thu Oct 22, 2009

St. Cloud Times

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Shelly Johnston might have the best Halloween party trick. Johnston has had two brooms standing up in the middle of her kitchen, with no support for 40-plus hours, she said.

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Mon Oct 19, 2009

Star Tribune

Taking new tack in fight against bias crimes

Brooklyn Park officials had been reworking their bias crime response plan for more than a year when the city's first serious hate crime in memory occurred last month.

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Sun Oct 18, 2009

St. Paul

A lesson in traveling in the dark

Imagine trying to cross the street if you couldn't see or hear. Minnesotans who are blind, deaf or both don't have to imagine.

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Fri Oct 16, 2009

TwinCities.com

MnDOT shorting disadvantaged firms on stimulus projects, report says

A new report by the religious-based community group ISAIAH says not enough of the federal stimulus money being spent on Minnesota's roads and bridges is making it into the hands of woman- and minority-owned businesses.

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Wed Oct 14, 2009

TwinCities.com

Eagan City Council considers increasing qualifications for election judges

What does it take to be an election judge? The answer, apparently, is not much. The Eagan City Council on Tuesday night took up the issue of whether prospective vanguards of America's democratic process ought to go through minimal screening or fill out a basic application.

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WCCO

3 Hennepin County Employees Arrested For Theft

Share + Oct 13, 2009 7:18 pm US/Central Three Hennepin County employees and numerous Twin Cities landlords will face criminal charges for theft by swindling, stemming off accusations they fraudulently stole emergency assistance public funding.

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Tue Oct 13, 2009

Star Tribune

Hennepin County workers accused in swindle scheme

The nearly $90,000 in government money was supposed to help low-income residents of Hennepin County with basic living expenses such as housing and food.

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Mon Oct 12, 2009

ABC Newspapers

Anoka supports hydro power, if property is protected

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Union Editor Anoka City Council supports the idea of restarting hydroelectric production at the Coon Rapids Dam, as long as it does not negatively impact property owners along the Mississippi River's recreational pool.

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Sat Oct 10, 2009

Startribune.com

A special bond between a boy and turkey

A typical morning at the Issacson residence in Brooklyn Park, would be pets running around the yard, and maybe a deer sighting in the driveway.

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Fri Oct 09, 2009

Star Tribune

Brooklyn Park man who filed false tax returns must repay IRS and go to prison

A 44-year-old Brooklyn Park man was sentenced Friday to nearly three years in prison after he admitted to filing hundreds of thousands of dollars in false federal tax returns.

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