Cottage Grove News

Under careful watch from the right and left, Forest Lake City Administrator Chip Robinson on Thursday counted ballots in the state mandated recount of the U.S. Senate race where Republican incumbent Norm ...

David Michael Cheney, 26, of Hastings, pleaded guilty Monday to robbing the TCF Bank in the Cottage Grove Cub Foods.

Crossroads Church holds the grand opening of its new $11 million building at 5900 Woodbury Drive in Woodbury this weekend, but the church already has bigger things in mind.

Queenie of Medford, Oregon: "I write this e-mail on the evening of Veterans Day, 2008.

Reports Al B of Hartland: "I was at a wake when a friend asked: 'How are you doing?' " 'Great,' I replied.

The St. Paul Clown Club, which bills itself as the nation's oldest active clown organization, is hosting its first beginners' clown class.

Found mail: The U.S. Postal Service reported Oct. 22 that a bin of mail was recovered at 70th Street South and Granada Avenue South.

For months, Minnesota's U.S. Senate candidates tried to influence how voters would vote.

Awarding thousands of dollars to innovative school projects every year, the South Washington County Education Foundation encourages teachers to think, "I can..." rather than, "If only..." Yet increasingly, ...

House District 57A Rep. Karla Bigham, DFL-Cottage Grove, and 57B Rep. Denny McNamara, R-Hastings, were both re-elected Tuesday.

Anyone interested in learning more about life in Cottage Grove and Woodbury during the 1970s, '80s and '90s can now visit the Washington County Historical Society.

Kristina Marie Dorniden, 29, of Cottage Grove; Andrew Thomas Hawes, 36, of Robbinsdale; and Elizabeth Mary Hawes, 43, of Minneapolis were charged Monday with aiding and abetting second-degree murder in Anoka ...

According to the Washington County Sheriff's Office, the following people were booked into the Washington County Jail between 7 a.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Monday: Steven M. Abt, 38, of St.

You'd think the folks on Wall Street would have figured it out by now. If they haven't, they can always stop by Mary Beth Townsend's economics class at Henry Sibley High School in Mendota Heights.

In District 55B, incumbent Nora Slawik of Maplewood faces challenger Joel Wellman, of Oakdale.

A 26-year-old Hastings man has been charged in federal court with holding up a TCF Bank in Cottage Grove.

Editor's note: Information in Tuesday's paper about Terry Johnson, a candidate for Newport City Council, was incorrect.

Police in Newport say they hope to learn the identity of a male who was run over by a train late last night in the southeast metro suburb.

Burglary: A homeowner in the 700 block of Hamlet Avenue South reported Sept. 17 that thieves took stereo equipment from his car, parked in an unattached garage.

Cottage Grove police arrested a suspect in a bank robbery. Police believe 26-year-old David Michael Cheney robbed the TCF Bank inside the Cub Foods Store on East Point Douglas Road South on Sept.