Hennepin County News

UPDATE SUNDAY 9:10 P.M.: The tornad watch issued by the National Weather Service expired at 9 p.m. There is a flash flood watch in effect through Monday night.

If the stressed food banks and increasing demand for social services weren't enough proof, Twin Cities residents now have further evidence that poverty is part of the suburban landscape.

The Brookings Institute indicates that in 2000, 89,895 Twin Cities suburbanites were classified as poor, while 204,901 met that classification in 2011.

A car towed from Brooklyn Park with a body inside drew authorities late Monday morning to a wrecker lot near downtown Minneapolis in what authorities are characterizing as "a possible homicide." A car towed from a Brooklyn Park retail parking lot with a body inside drew authorities late Monday morning to a wrecker lot near downtown Minneapolis in ... (more)

Hennepin County deputies are processing a scene at a tow yard in Minneapolis after a body was found in the trunk of a vehicle.

A man is being held in the Hennepin County jail, facing a laundry list of criminal charges after leading State Troopers on a high speed chase down a busy interstate Sunday night.

Ezekiel Allen's weary voice and his long list of medical challenges - schizophrenia, a back injury, bipolar condition, high blood pressure, brain polyps, dental troubles, migraine headaches - make him sound far older than his 45 years.

At 4:20 p.m. Sunday, May 19, the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Richfield.

I have two folders in my work computer. One is titled "lack of common sense." The other is "your government at work." There's no question that the stories sent to the folders will overlap quite often, considering the tale I'm about to tell you.

The Friends of the Northfield Public Library welcomed Teresa Jensen, our new Director of the library and IT, with a gathering at the library.

A Maple Grove bartender has been charged with a gross misdemeanor after she served booze to a 20-year-old just before the customer drowned in a pond.

Supporters of two Somali women scheduled to be sentenced for helping a terrorist group gather outside the Hennepin County Government Center on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Minneapolis.

The Upper Mississippi Academy will use 200,000 feet spread among nine buildings on the so-called Upper Post for a prekindergarten-through-12th-grade school, the state Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday.

That question has nagged at me for several weeks after MPR's Sasha Aslanian tried to put the final period on the historic story of how same-sex marriage came to be legal in Minnesota.

Editor's Note: The following is a Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board press release.

A Hennepin County district judge found Eddie Mosley guilty Thursday in the killings of three people at a Brooklyn Park home day care last year.

The two Republican candidates for governor in Minnesota say they won't try to overturn the state's new marriage equality law, according to Minnesota Public Radio.

Constructed in 1885, the Hanover Historical Bridge is the third oldest in Minnesota, according to the Hanover Historical Society website .

Former Minneapolis police officer Bradley Schnickel, already facing allegations that he had sex with a 14-year-old girl he met online, has been charged with six additional felony counts after seven more girls said he tried to coerce them into sexual encounters.

At 36, Rachel Bohman has chosen an unusual time to walk away from her position as the top elections official in the state's biggest county.