A Hugo teen has been charged with making terroristic threats and assaulting a student at the White Bear Lake Area High School prom.

Painter and photographer Bonnie Ploger, storyteller and mapmaker Susan Armington, poet Su Smallen and painter and sculptor Jessica Zeglin will be the Artists at Pine Needles for the summer of 2013.

Doug Bahl, a deaf St. Paul man, said what happened to him at the hands of St. Paul police in 2006 was an "unnecessary tragedy," but he also hopes it "becomes a learning experience."

An Anoka County sheriff's dog was injured this week while trying to apprehend a man in Nowthen.

Electronics, car tires, small engines and medicines? Check, check, check and check.

A Burnsville woman is guilty of sending threatening letters to people and trying to extort money from others, a federal jury in Minneapolis found Wednesday, May 8.

The St. Paul district plans a third round of beefing up spending in what leaders called a "seminal year" for its schools in 2013-14.

A rules change on tax credits for affordable housing is pitting preservationists against those pushing new development in St. Paul along the Central Corridor.

A Hennepin County judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit by Steve Bohnen that alleges malicious prosecution, abuse of process and civil conspiracy. Bohnen's suit is against a man -- and his attorneys -- who sued him more than two years ago following a campaign-sign incident.

In a mobile billboard for St. Paul development, the first light-rail test train rolled down University Avenue last month, passed the renovated Union Depot and glided into a new downtown maintenance facility.

When you think Como Park, you probably think zoo, conservatory, walking around the lake or golf.

An Oakdale man who worked as a media liaison for the city of Richfield has been sentenced to three years and three months in prison for possession of child porno- graphy.

With its musicians still locked out, the Minnesota Orchestra has canceled the rest of its 2012-13 season, while adding three weeks of concerts in July.

A former head football coach for Minnesota State University, Mankato, who was cleared of child pornography charges last year but reassigned to an administrative position, is no longer employed at the university, the school said Wednesday.

The Metropolitan Council has effectively approved a new light-rail line for the 13-mile Bottineau Transitway between Minneapolis and Brooklyn Park, as well as three additional "arterial" bus rapid transit routes in Minneapolis that would share lanes with regular traffic.

Parents no longer will need to pay a fee to enroll their kids in all-day, everyday kindergarten in the Mounds View school district.

The beach at Lily Lake in Stillwater will not open this year.

A body was pulled from the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul on Wednesday afternoon, May 8, officials said.

A federal judge agreed to postpone a detention hearing for a Montevideo, Minn., man accused of planning a terrorist attack after his attorney asked for more time to look into the case.

It's official: A key portion of the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant belongs to Ramsey County.