Columbia Heights News

Lunch with Pat Proft is pure entertainment. The screenwriter of such wonderful parody movies as Hot Shots and Naked Gun , and the Police Squad! TV series can fill a couple of hours reminiscing about a life in comedy without even breaking a sweat.

Mo Hicks, who acted as his own attorney in the murder trial against him, was found guilty this morning of killing his former co-worker and friend in 2007.

February 18, 2011 - Kathy L. Kelly, Superintendent of the Columbia Heights Public Schools, has been named the recipient of the seventh annual Administrator Award for Distinguished Support of Music Education.

The days of large paper stands and long magazine racks at grocery stores, convenience stores and gas stations may be numbered, but there is one publication that is hitting the racks these days, only to quickly leave be snatched up by eager readers.

Hicks, 36, who is representing himself in his trial for allegedly murdering Judy Rush, 56, in 2007, called three more witnesses Thursday before resting his defense.

One Washingtonian returning citizen wants to see more returning citizens taking charge of and turning out in large numbers just like that which recently took place in Minnesota.

The defense continued Wednesday for a Brooklyn Park man representing himself in his own murder trial in Anoka County District Court.

Autumn Grove Park in Roseville has a hockey and freestyle skating area that Julia Roberts and Sarah Beuchler enjoyed on Jan.

Man charged with prostitution after incident at Roseville hotel George Fairbanks news editor Thanks to a trio of vigilant witnesses who followed through and acted on their suspicions, a Columbia Heights man has been arrested and charged with prostitution, and the underage girl he was taking advantage of is currently getting the help she needs.

"The evidence that I show will lead you to find me not guilty," Hicks told Anoka County District Judge James Cunningham.

According to the Anoka County Medical Examiner's office, the woman convicted of animal cruelty for killing her Chihuahua puppy at her Fridley apartment last year has died.

It’s morning time and a little boy with a shaved head and a face shaped like the moon chants a Tibetan prayer.

The man charged with murder in the 2007 death of 56-year-old Judy Rush has until Monday to prepare any opening statement he chooses to present in the case.

The case against Samuel Cozart, 34, came to light when he allegedly asked another man at the Days Inn on Cleveland Avenue where he might buy a fake ID for a 17-year-old girl staying with him.

Updated below. All four boards representing school districts that take in parts of Fridley are meeting this week.

It's morning time and a little boy with a shaved head and a face shaped like the moon chants a Tibetan prayer.

It's morning time and a little boy with a shaved head and a face shaped like the moon chants a Tibetan prayer.

Mo Hicks, accused of killing his girlfriend, also asked that his case be heard by a judge and without a jury.

It's morning time and a little boy with a shaved head and a face shaped like the moon chants a Tibetan prayer.

I thought the photographer busily snapping away at the school board swearing-in ceremony last week for Kim Ellison looked vaguely familiar, but it wasn't until he turned around that I realized that it was indeed Congressman Keith Ellison moonlighting as a photographer.