Hastings News

A Dakota County attorney's office report shows that 17 percent more adults were charged with felony-level crimes in 2011 than in 2010.

A Hopkins U.S. Bank branch robbed Dec. 5 was not included in an indictment, unsealed Thursday afternoon, against a Minneapolis man suspected of being the "Man in Black" who hit more than a dozen Twin Cities banks.

A House natural resources committee today heard a legislative proposal from Rep.

An Eagan man has been charged with threatening to kill a woman and two young children in Burnsville last week.

An unmarked cemetery overlooking a state wildlife management area is a poignant reminder of the old Hastings State Hospital and how some of its patients were treated.

Jonathan Lawrence Brockman, 21, of Farmington, was sentenced last week to 120 days in jail for a Jan.

But city curator Cindy Thury Smith and her history-minded friends are working as volunteers to keep the city history room open.

A Mound woman has been charged with breaking into a car at the Buck Hill ski area in Burnsville and stealing a purse containing cash and gift cards.

Steven Alexander Cross, 60, the Lakeville man who abandoned his son and told him to live with neighbors last summer, was found guilty Wednesday of child neglect in Dakota County court.

HASTINGS, Minn. - A Minnesota father accused of abandoning his 11-year-old son for a new life in California has been found guilty of child neglect.

A Burnsville man has been charged with criminal sexual conduct after police say he had inappropriate sexual contact with a young girl beginning when she was 5. Stephen Richard Angotti , 27, is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, which carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $40,000 fine, and second-degree criminal ... (more)

HASTINGS, Minn. - An accused Mound, Minn. purse thief faces three felony charges after the victim and her husband tracked her down to a nearby mall.

A veteran Hastings police officer scheduled to appear in court this week over the alleged theft of a corkscrew from a restaurant also is accused of school bus stop-arm violations and sleeping on the job.

A Burnsville man has been charged with forcing a woman to work as a prostitute and assaulting her while she was seven months pregnant with his child.

HASTINGS, Minn. - A 19-year-old Burnsville man is charged with beating his pregnant girlfriend and forcing her into prostitution.

Medical examiner Dr. Lindsay Thomas showed the area where the cooler holds the deceased at the Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner's Office in Hastings.

Dakota County Libraries recently announced the kickoff of their 11th annual reading program for adults, Winter Jackets, a collaborative effort with the Metropolitan Library Service Agency thatA will run from Jan.

After bypassing luxuries for years to send their four now-grown children to private schools, Gerald and Barbara Heil were eager to see some of the world after they retired.