Cottage Grove News

A Woodbury teen faces felony charges after allegedly putting a gun to a cabdriver's neck and robbing him of money and a GPS unit.

This text is replaced by the Flash movie. In a frantic assembly line, Rita Zimmerman's team is racing to feed the hungry.

A Twin Cities school has a huge financial hill to climb. Yeshiva High School must raise more than half a million dollars in just five weeks.

Share + Dec 16, 2009 11:42 am US/Central COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. A 14-year-old girl told police she was nearly abducted walking to her bus stop at the intersection of 70th Street South and Meadow Grass Lane South in Cottage Grove.

Share + Dec 14, 2009 8:40 am US/Central COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. Ron Wasmund is nothing if not efficient.

Weekend holiday events include holiday train, cemetery observances and peace flame.

To use the phrase "It's a small world," is an understatement when you look at the chances of this happening not only in the military, but from a geographical perspective.

A Koch Industries pipeline near Staples, Minn., has been shut after spilling an estimated 5,000 barrels of crude oil on Friday, according to a state official.

Staying up all night. Missing classes and work. The cold. The exacting rules. None of stopped hundreds of Minnesotans from lining up to see Sarah Palin Monday at her book signing at the Mall of America.

The agency that coordinates affordable housing for low-income residents in Washington County is fielding hard questions from some county commissioners who are unhappy that the county helps finance the program.

The research, conducted nationally and in West Virginia, is part of mounting evidence about health effects from the Scotchgard-type chemicals that have been detected in the groundwater in the east metro area.

Washington Countya s Department of Public Health and Environment is conducting H1N1 flu vaccination clinics for children 4 through 9 years of age from 9 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday, Nov.

The organizers of Cottage Grove's Holiday Train stop for the Friends in Need food shelf are planning an all-you-can-eat breakfast fundraiser Nov.

PICKED ABOUT HALF OF THE TROOPS THE GENERAL SAYS HE NEEDS. MAYBE A POLITICAL ANALOGY WILL HELP THE PRESIDENT: IF WE ONLY GIVE OBAMA HALF OF THE VOTES HE NEEDS, HOW SUCCESSFUL WILL HE BE? GIVE THE GENERAL WHAT HE NEEDS, OR BRING THE TROOPS HOME.

Writes Cousin Nan: "Alas, I lost something I treasured: the watch that my dad wore through his Army stint in World War II.

A 40-year-old Cottage Grove man pleaded guilty today to possessing 142 images and 11 video files of child pornography.

Minnesota's primary election would be held a month earlier next year under legislation that three state senators today said they will introduce to comply with a change in federal law.

A crash on icy roads Friday killed two family members, and left another injured.

An accident involving a school bus carrying students from Oltman Middle School in St.

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