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Mary Lou Volkert is vying for a chance to win $200 and have her dessert — tentatively dubbed Mary Lou's Ultimate Mint Cream Pie — served for the next 12 months at Joseph's Family Restaurant in Stillwater.

Every summer, along about the time Rondo Days comes along, which it just did, I dust off my vague memories of the avenue and then struggle mightily to understand what it is that I think I remember. Booker T's? Eureka Cadillac? The Credjafawn Co-op?

Aaron Foster seemed in a big hurry the night he came into the 7-Eleven store in Maplewood, where William Peters was working as a clerk, Peters said.

First, the roosters get to roost. Then their fate will be decided. The 29 Taiwanese fighting cocks rescued from an East Bethel home Monday have

It was the kiss of death. On Friday morning, Arthur Torgesen allegedly turned to his wife in bed, kissed her and then stabbed her to death.

A 2-year-old girl playing with her cousin was crushed and killed by a television that slid off a dresser in her St. Paul home.

Two brothers found dead in a Burkhardt apartment in May died of drug overdoses, investigators now say.

Derek Olson, a sixth-grade teacher at Afton-Lakeland Elementary, was named Minnesota's new Teacher of the Year on Tuesday.

One rooster was dead and stuffed into a filing cabinet. Two injured birds were found in a blood-spattered ring. Feces, blood and bits of skin were ground into the carpet.

At least this backup is only in the St. Paul sewer bills.

On Monday, there were no flowers or a casket to recognize the passing of Judy Lynn Rush. Instead, there was a judge, who, in a quiet courtroom, declared the Columbia Heights woman dead.

The number of officers coming to St. Paul to help secure the Republican National Convention appears to be in flux, but St. Paul police say that's normal at this point.

A woman who was socializing with Barbara Winn in the hours before she died testified Monday that Winn said she wanted to get a restraining order against Aaron Foster — the man now on trial in her death.

Kiersten Rades and Taylor Swingle maneuvered their radio-controlled boats to push a floating doll to safety, despite interfering robot-sharks.

Richard and Mary Jo Copeland — the founders of Sharing and Caring Hands — still hope someday to realize their dream of building a 200-bed children's home between Lone Oak Road and Minnesota 55 in Eagan. But their development agreement with the city ran out a year ago, and the funding they prayed for never materialized.

Burnsville is preparing to renovate the city's old maintenance building into an expanded youth complex for its popular teen center and local sports organizations.

June's deluge has left businesses at Lake Delton in the Wisconsin Dells high and dry.

Thousands filled the sidewalks of St. Paul on Saturday to watch the Rondo Days parade, the kickoff to a weekend of festivities for the 25th anniversary of the annual celebration.

He was robbed at gunpoint. His brother-in-law was gunned down in an unrelated highway robbery. There were times during his mission of mercy that he feared for his safety.

For 25 years, neighbors have gathered on the first Tuesday in August, over hot dogs and ice cream, to mingle and talk about crime prevention for National Night Out.