North St. Paul News

In late June, I happened to be in several malls - shopping for my daughter's birthday and avoiding the heat.

Newsweek magazine has included 28 Minnesota schools in "America's Top High Schools" of 2009.

A Duluth man with a long criminal record as a con artist will get a new trial for check forgery.

College: Northwoods League , 6:05 p.m. - Duluth at Alexandria. 6:35 p.m. - Mankato at Eau Claire.

Unemployment hit 9.4% last month. So much for Obama turning the economy around.

He's pushing for more tax increases, record deficits, and carbon taxes. More jobs will be lost.

As of the end of May, only 6% of Obama's $787 billion "stimulus" had been spent. Starting in March, many economists said the economy was turning around, that the recession was easing. I believe they are right. Obama's massive "stimulus" had nothing to do with it. He's trying to take credit for it, though.

Obama has now promised to "create or save" 600,000 jobs in 100 days. Members of his administration admit there is no way to measure how many jobs were "saved" by his programs.

College graduates are now flooding into the job market. The unemployment rate will surely surpass 10% in two or three months.

The Twin Cities Labor Chorus is seeking singers of all voices and skill levels. The next rehearsal is June 16.

Start: 06/11/2009 - 7:00am End: 06/11/2009 - 9:00am Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Wilder Foundation 451 Lexington Parkway N, St.

The Forest Lake softball girls knocked off defending champions of Eagan in the first round of state softball tournaments Thursday morning in Mankato.

May 29, 2009 6:57 pm US/Central Reporting Darcy Pohland MAPLEWOOD, Minn. It's shaping up to be one of the top-three driest Mays on record.

Kim Westra and Kathleen Gerber, teachers in the Atheneum Gifted and Talented Program at Salem Hills Elementary, Inver Grove Heights, each received $10,000 for winning the 2009 WEM Foundation Outstanding Educator Award.

The city of North St. Paul and its school district will not share a new public works building and bus garage after all.

A North St. Paul man was killed Saturday after his car was struck by an out-of-control vehicle exiting Interstate 94 onto McKnight Road, the Minnesota State Patrol said.

The St. Louis County Medical Examiner says the man wanted for robbing a Metro restaurant and shooting at an officer died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The St. Louis County Medical Examiner's preliminary autopsy shows Quincy Pederson, 38, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Authorities have released the names of the four officers involved in Tuesday's standoff in northern Minnesota that ended with the death of a suspect in an April crime spree in the north suburbs.

The Ramsey County attorney's office charged a Willernie man Monday with holding up a North St.

Authorities in northern Minnesota have launched a massive search for a man wanted for robbing a North St.

An attempted traffic stop in the St. Paul area turned into a much more dangerous situation when a van tried to speed away, shooting at the officer.

Maplewood Police are hoping surveillance video of a restaurant robbery may solve two cases.

A gunman behind the wheel of a fleeing van shot at a Maplewood police officer in pursuit, peppering the squad car with bullets and eluding capture.