Oak Park Heights News

Paul Walser's deal to buy and consolidate two shuttered Denny Hecker dealerships has hit a major roadblock.

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Denny Hecker in April 2004. Hecker filed for personal bankruptcy protection this month following highly publicized battles with his largest lenders.

This text is replaced by the Flash movie. Minnesota and federal investigators descended on the remains of Denny Hecker's shattered empire of automotive dealerships Wednesday, searching, they said, for possible evidence of fraudulent car sales that may have roped in unsuspecting victims from more than a dozen counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

A day after state and federal investigators descended on what little remains of Denny Hecker's automotive empire amid a state and federal fraud investigation over unpaid taxes and license fees and outstanding car liens, the bankrupt mogul came out swinging.

Top drum and bugle corps from across the country will compete this weekend in Drum Beauty Minnesota '09. The event will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Stillwater Area High School Stadium in Oak Park Heights.

A number of senior housing projects are in the works in the Twin Cities, from Fridley to St.

Officials in Oak Park Heights didn't like Washington County's plan for collecting an environmental charge back when it was first proposed in 2002.

Top: Bob Anderson, director of the Raptor Resource Project, lets fourth-grade students from Falcon Heights Elementary School touch a peregrine falcon after he bands it Wednesday at Xcel Energy's Allen King Power Plant in Oak Park Heights.

A 69-year-old Rosemount man serving a 13-year prison sentence after being convicted of molesting three young girls will be allowed to go home from prison, in part because of his poor health.

Drivers in Stillwater, Bayport, Oak Park Heights and Stillwater Township should expect delays Sunday during the Anytime Fitness Stillwater Marathon.

There's one open position on the Oak Park Heights Police Department, and, as of Thursday, 117 people were vying for it.

Is Bayport paying its top management too much? City Council Member Torry Kraftson thinks so.

"It is the missing piece to provide our continuum of care here at Boutwells." That is how Mark Campbell, chair of Valley Senior Services Alliance, described The Gables, the newest addition to Boutwells Landing in Oak Park Heights.

A 27-year-old Willmar man got a quite shock after he allegedly ignored an Oak Park Heights Police officera s order to halt outside the Wal-Mart store on Saturday, April 18.

Time may no longer be on their side. But thanks to the efforts of the Minnesota Historical Society and local volunteers, history is.

The Distict 834 Board of Education has added a lengthy meeting to its schedule and moved others from Stillwater City Hall to schools in the district.

Dakota County prosecutors will appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court the overturned convictions of a Rosemount man who was accused of molesting three girls beginning when they were in fifth or sixth grade.

Xcel Energy's Bird Cams are now offering a busy, birds-eye view of activities from power plant nesting boxes.

Oak Park Heights Police and Stillwater Area Schools authorities are warning local parents to beware of an apparent credit-card fraud scam involving the Scholastic Aptitude Test .