Columbia Heights News

As Barbra Zakrajsek packed up and left her office last week after nine years as Milaca's superintendent of schools, she repeatedly expressed appreciation for the help she had from many people.

A 24-year-old Columbia Heights man pleaded guilty Monday in Anoka County District Court to first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend. Nicholas Allen Holm killed Jacob Henry Francis Bird outside the Blaine home where Bird was staying in August.

Columbia Heights man, facing foreclosure, helps the attorney general in a suit against mortgage company.

Police tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS they're getting closer to an arrest in several Metro church thefts Thursday.

Police are looking for a man who robbed a Columbia Heights church, after asking the pastor for guidance and prayer.

Its been rumored...and though nothing is official, Greg Amundson tells us that it is now indeed a possiblity.

The finishing touches have been put on the Islamic Institute of Minnesota's newest mosque.

Diners packed the dining room on the last day of service. Foreground is Austin Hanson, 6 months, and mother Sarah Hanson, both of Isanti.

It's a daunting task that many families enter with love and good intentions, but often without the skills they need.

Ray Sandford doesn't want to do this. On a sunny yet cool mid-April morning, the pear-shaped 54-year-old emerges from the front door of his ranch-style group home in Columbia Heights .

Christopher Mihm knows the moment that his movie-making career hit pay dirt. "When I first saw one of my movies at a drive-in, it was just transcendent," the Arden Hills auteur says.

For the last two years, Antoine LaFromboise, 22, has been sharing an apartment in the Minneapolis warehouse district, where he and his sister split the monthly rent of $2,000. But his sister recently became engaged, and LaFromboise had to decide what to do when she moved out.

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Managing editor The first foreclosed/vacant homes are being purchased by Anoka County through the federally-funded Neighborhood Stabilization Program .

The court order authorizing electroshock treatments for Ray Sandford says that when he arrived at a psychiatric hospital early last year, he was "grossly psychotic" and violent toward staff and other patients.

A Columbia Heights man was arrested late Thursday after police were called to a domestic assault, according to Sgt.

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Life Editor Crest View Senior Communities has received a conditional use permit extension for its assisted living, memory and independent care facility.

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Union Editor For 32 years Albert Kordiak was the one people in Columbia Heights called when they needed help.

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Union Editor Anoka is going on the record opposing an Anoka County Housing and Redevelopment Authority plan to levy countywide in 2010.

A Twin Cities teenager whose prison sentence for shooting and killing his best friend was stayed is now a fugitive, a Hennepin County probation official said this afternoon.

The former longtime Anoka County commissioner will be honored at a dinner on Thursday, May 14, at the Courtyards of Andover, a benefit for the Anoka County Historical Society's endowment fund.