Hennepin County News

No charges will be filed against a man who stabbed a teenager to death earlier this month in Minneapolis.

Hennepin County officials are looking for volunteers to serve on seven advisory boards which consider issues ranging from mental health to libraries.

Another lawsuit from the Interstate 35W bridge collapse is looming - this one over rusting wreckage that has kept a Minneapolis park fenced off for two years.

The Woodbury Public Safety Department and Crime Stoppers of Minnesota are seeking assistance in identifying a suspect in several recent credit card frauds.

A tour bus driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm just before the bus veered off a southern Minnesota interstate and crashed, killing two people and injuring 20, the owner of the bus company said Thursday.

Hennepin County Medical Center is proposing cutting another 150 to 200 more jobs and closing a clinic in response to the elimination of a state health care program.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be updated from 12:45 p.m. meeting. MINNEAPOLIS The board of the Hennepin County Medical Center is poised to adopt a 2010 budget that could significantly shrink the services provided by the state's largest safety net hospital.

A Minneapolis man is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Brandon Keeler, who was found dead early Saturday with a knife impaled in his forehead.

A New Hope man is accused of molesting a 9-year-old girl at a home day care run by his mother.

A teen who died early Saturday was an American Indian who had just been accepted to college.

So... a kid could go to the library and check out a puppet?? Just curious, but was there a requirement to check out a book at the same time? More from West Metro Hand puppets will no longer be available for checkout or play at Hennepin County libraries, partly because of parents' concerns that fuzzy ladybugs and dinosaurs could transmit the H1N1 ...

Hopkins man accused of having a friend punch his pregnant girlfriend to kill the fetus has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.

Competition is fierce for grants toward youth sports facilities in Hennepin County, an offshoot of legislation used to build the new Minnesota Twins ballpark.

Todd Gilly insists he's no troublemaker. But the plumber from Mora, Minn., found himself in big trouble recently when his answers during jury selection landed him in the Kanabec County jail.

A Richfield man is sentenced to more than 30 years in prison for killing his sister and threatening her baby.

Monica Mary Margaret Say A woman had her two children in the car, ages 2 and 4, and an open bottle of rum in a diaper bag when she led police on a chase last week in western Hennepin County, police said today.

Two Minneapolis hotel employees are being credited with saving the life of a New Jersey man who nearly drowned after having a seizure in the hotel pool.

A man beat his son and burned him with an iron before the boy hid in the family's oven, according to charges filed Monday.

Owner of Minnesota Print Services owes investors $53 million and is charged with 36 counts of securities fraud.

Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Pete Orput on Tuesday announced his bid to become head of the Washington County attorney's office.