Dakota County News

It may have a new use. Beginning Monday, Apple Valley, Burnsville and Eagan will be collecting old shoes for Wipers Recycling, a Maplewood-based shredding company that finds new uses for common goods.

Twice in the past five days, tornado sirens in Lakeville blared a warning on their own.

Nineteen-year-old Taylor James Pass of Eagan was acquitted of murder in the second degree and second degree murder in connection with a stabbing attack that claimed the life of Tina Nicole SanRoman .

A St. Paul woman could face time in prison after police say she lied her way into getting medicine from a hospital.

Incumbents mostly kept their seats in Tuesday's election on many school boards across the south metro area.

Taylor Pass Could a fourth or even a fifth person have been in the garage of Tina SanRoman's Burnsville town home on the night the single mother was fatally stabbed in the abdomen? Attorneys for 19-year-old murder suspect Taylor Pass have introduced new DNA evidence taken from a hat and sweat shirt found at the crime scene that does not match the ...

When Sgt. Joe Leko's officers collared a recent suspect, a methamphetamine addict, the cops were the ones who left her Farmington home emotional.

Prosecutors say a 46-year-old Lakeville woman has pleaded guilty to one charge of second-degree manslaughter in the death of her 6-week-old grandson in May.

The number of Boy Scouts allegedly molested by a former Burnsville scoutmaster has now risen to seven, police said Thursday.

A 24-year-old man who was found dead in a Waterville alley Monday died accidentally, a coroner's report said.

Eagan officials say there's a good reason why municipal taxes on a median-value home within the city will go up more than $30 next year: The city needs the money.

Tina San Roman, stabbed while in her garage, had made her way into her Burnsville townhouse, where she called 911.

It's a fall tradition. We stand in awe of the visual delights of autumn leaves and gird ourselves for the duties that naturally follow, i.e. raking and bagging them.A Soon those plastic leaf bags will be stacked in back alleys and street curbs.

South St. Paul and Hastings schools are campaigning for resident support of a tax increase next month at the polls.

The value of prairie grasses in Dakota County parks goes well beyond aesthetics.

A Burnsville Boy Scout leader was arrested Oct. 19 on probable cause of criminal sexual conduct, according to jail booking information from the Dakota County Sheriffa s Department.

A Minneapolis man pleaded guilty Monday to charges stemming from an Apple Valley crash that killed an 18-year-old woman.

Three Burnsville Boy Scouts have accused their troop leader of sexual molestation, and police fear there may be more victims because the man had access to children in a number of different ways.

A former Burnsville Boy Scout troop leader is accused of molesting three teen troop members while they were alone in different locations with him.

A creepy cache has prompted Dakota County to institute new rules for high-tech treasure hunting in its parks.