Lino Lakes News

It wasn't like Jermaine Hunter to stop calling his siblings, not even for a day.

Buoyed by the Republican Party endorsement, Tom Emmer vowed Sunday to ramp up his campaign headed into the August primary for the congressional seat now held by Michele Bachmann .

The owner of a massage and skin care business in Lino Lakes, Minn., was charged Friday for allegedly making fraudulent charges on her customers' accounts.

Six days after the House voted unanimously voted to provide $45 million in extra property tax refunds for homeowners, renters and farmers, the Senate on Thursday passed a tax bill with no direct new benefits for property owners.

Cindarion Butler, the teen convicted in January in the brutal beating of Ray Widstrand, was charged Wednesday with assaulting a correctional officer in jail.

Hyperbole was taken to a hard-to-top heights this afternoon on the House floor as Rep. Jim Newberger, R-Becker, compared the Safe and Supportive Minnesota Schools Act to the dystopian society described by George Orwell in his classic novel, 1984 .

Christine Crittenden, the widow of North St. Paul police officer Richard Crittenden, listens as city manager Jason Ziemer testifies to a Senate committee March 3 at the state Capitol for a bill presented by Sen. Chuck Wiger, DFL-Maplewood, right.

The herons of Peltier Lake in Lino Lakes faced a familiar, wily foe -- raccoons -- that decreased nest numbers, but yet, have returned home.

A bullying prevention bill, altered after it stalled in the Legislature last year, appears headed for a vote in the Senate Thursday.

Some thieves target diamonds. Others favor expensive paintings. And then there's Leonard Keith Houle of Forest Lake, who broke into his ex-wife's home and went straight for the cheese -- literally.

A Forest Lake, Minn. man has been charged with three criminal counts after he allegedly broke into his ex-wife's house and stole cheese from her refrigerator.

Freezing rain just south of the metro turned roads into skating rinks early Tuesday and led to a jackknifed semi that caused the closure of I-35 near Northfield.

When Aarica Johnson of Lino Lakes tuned into CBS' "The Good Wife" last night, she saw one of the last things she'd expected - the death of a major character in the show.