Hennepin County News

An alligator is in the Eagan jail Friday after it became a frightening Fourth of July party crasher.

A Minnesota legislative tour intended to assess how state budget cuts will affect health care programs arrives at the state's biggest safety-net hospital on Friday.

A new Hennepin County website will track stimulus money coming from the federal government and show the progress of projects paid for by the funding.

A man who works with children at a Minneapolis school and several libraries was arrested Tuesday after police say he's suspected of molesting children.

A teen wounded in a confrontation with Minneapolis police has been charged with two counts of felony assault in the first degree.

A man's body found Monday evening in an apartment east of Lake Nokomis has Minneapolis police investigating what they describe as a suspicious death.

Jun 29, 2009 4:55 pm US/Central 1 of 3 Chebo Chomilo, 18, is accused of firing at Minneapolis Police and then being shot by officers as he fled on June 28, 2009.

One man is recovering after being shot by Minneapolis Police during a foot chase early Sunday morning.

Minneapolis police officers called to investigate a report of shots fired in south Minneapolis early this morning said they chased and finally shot and wounded an armed man.

Finance and Commerce's own stimulus tracker for road and bridge projects can be found here .

A father and son were taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center after being burned in a fire pit.

Jupiter Images A jury has returned a guilty verdict for a man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of a Somali man outside Village Market Mall last September.

The landmark bells of Minneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse will ring out today from 11:30 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. in memory of singer and songwriter Michael Jackson.

The changes are goals of the juvenile detention alternatives initiative that started in 2005.

The number of people detained each day at the Hennepin County juvenile detention center has declined 33 percent over the past three years, the District Court said Wednesday.

About 100 people flying banners and wearing green scarves are rallying in downtown Minneapolis to support the opposition movement in Iran.

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Jun 23, 2009 9:31 am US/Central 1 of 1 The weather service says temperatures will climb into the middle 90s, and coupled with the high humidity it will feel like it's 100 to 105 degrees.

The Rev. Tim Vakoc smiles while remembering an Easter weekend service he gave for soldiers in Iraq as an Army chaplain, during a conversation with a friend at his current home, St.

A two-year-old boy is recovering Tuesday after falling out of a second-story window in Minneapolis.