New Brighton News

Another semi accident backs up traffic on highway 169 over Riverfront Drive this afternoon.It happened just before 12:30.The Minnesota State Patrol says a semi truck driven by 51-year-old Thao Long of New Brighton, struck the guardrails resulting in a damaged fuel tank.The Minnesota Department of Transportation was able to contain the fuel before ...

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Share + Jul 3, 2009 6:11 pm US/Central Reporting John Lauritsen NEW BRIGHTON, Minn.

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An interim gang-fighting task force won't include officers who were members of the suspended Metro Gang Strike Force, officials decided Tuesday.

A 6-year-old boy on a school outing has died after being found in a north metro lake.

Six-year-old Kyarke Lah loved to play in the water. He spent Wednesday afternoon splashing around New Brighton's Long Lake with his day care group.

The death of a 6-year-old prompted a change at a New Brighton Lake. Kyarke Lah of St.

Jun 24, 2009 6:47 pm US/Central NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. 1 of 1 Police were called to Long Lake in New Brighton around 2:30 p.m. and within minutes lifeguards found the 8-year-old boy and pulled him to shore.

A 7-year-old boy was unresponsive Wednesday afternoon after rescuers pulled him from eight feet of water in a New Brighton lake.

From mid-century modern to contemporary prefab, the Twin Cities has experimented with almost every architectural style to come along since World War II.

An investigation substantiated allegations of physical and emotional abuse against two employees of a care facility for the mentally retarded in New Brighton.

The 10 owners of Alamco Wood Products Inc. have sold the wood-lamination company to New Brighton-based Bell Lumber & Pole.

The Metro Gang Strike Force seized 19 vehicles which it then turned over to a company for resale even though the vehicles had not been properly forfeited, the Minnesota Legislative Auditor reported today.

A former Metro Gang Strike Force officer is under investigation for allegedly stalking a woman by using the unit's electronic monitoring equipment and obtaining her phone records, according to court records and law enforcement officials with direct knowledge of the case.

In May 1965, a bored, blue 34-year-old housewife from New Brighton, Minn., focused borrowed binoculars on something that ''nearly knocked me over with astonishment,'' she wrote later -- a black and white bird with a yellow head, an orange throat and a flutey trill.

LIFE LIST: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds. Olivia Gentile. Bloomsbury. 352 pages.

Damage discovered on a bridge over Interstate 35W today has closed the ramp from northbound Interstate 35W to westbound County Road 10 in northwestern Ramsey County.

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Ramsey County sheriff's investigators say they've tracked down the 14 vehicles that couldn't be located in an audit of the Metro Gang Strike Force.