Hennepin County News

The Friends of the Northfield Public Library welcomed Teresa Jensen, our new Director of the library and IT, with a gathering at the library.

A Maple Grove bartender has been charged with a gross misdemeanor after she served booze to a 20-year-old just before the customer drowned in a pond.

Supporters of two Somali women scheduled to be sentenced for helping a terrorist group gather outside the Hennepin County Government Center on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Minneapolis.

The Upper Mississippi Academy will use 200,000 feet spread among nine buildings on the so-called Upper Post for a prekindergarten-through-12th-grade school, the state Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday.

That question has nagged at me for several weeks after MPR's Sasha Aslanian tried to put the final period on the historic story of how same-sex marriage came to be legal in Minnesota.

Editor's Note: The following is a Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board press release.

A Hennepin County district judge found Eddie Mosley guilty Thursday in the killings of three people at a Brooklyn Park home day care last year.

The two Republican candidates for governor in Minnesota say they won't try to overturn the state's new marriage equality law, according to Minnesota Public Radio.

Constructed in 1885, the Hanover Historical Bridge is the third oldest in Minnesota, according to the Hanover Historical Society website .

Former Minneapolis police officer Bradley Schnickel, already facing allegations that he had sex with a 14-year-old girl he met online, has been charged with six additional felony counts after seven more girls said he tried to coerce them into sexual encounters.

At 36, Rachel Bohman has chosen an unusual time to walk away from her position as the top elections official in the state's biggest county.

It costs $1,330 less to get a colonoscopy in Hennepin County than in Scott County.

Members of the Jamaican Diaspora, residing in the Mid-west of the United States, have been urged to make every effort to attend the upcoming Diaspora Conference in Montego Bay from June 16 to 19.

Lindquist & Vennum business litigator Chris Pham has won the Hennepin County Bar Association's Diversity Award, recognizing his leadership in diversity activities at the Minneapolis-based law firm and the Twin Cities community.

Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department will host a series of community conversations about a proposal to create a more convenient location for north Minneapolis residents to access services including medical, emergency, child care and food assistance, child support and homeless services.

Gov. Mark Dayton signed the gay marriage bill on the Capitol steps Tuesday evening, officially making Minnesota the 12th state to allow same-sex couples to wed.

A 52-year-old Minneapolis man has been charged with allegedly shooting and killing a 23-year-old man in front of four children, the Hennepin County Attorey's Office announced Tuesday.

Police and Water Patrol teams are searching the Mississippi River after witnesses reported seeing two people jump off a bridge in Minneapolis Tuesday morning.

Learn how to incorporate simple, practical and sustainable practices into your everyday life at the first MN Goes Green event, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Union Depot, 214 E. 4th St., St.

Franklin, 22, was shot to death Friday afternoon during an "altercation" with police who had chased him into a home on Bryant Avenue South.