Pioneer Press MN News

The walls just above and below Minnehaha Falls are in imminent danger of collapse according to a report by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released earlier in the week.

Mark Backlund screams, kicks and struggles against Minnesota State Patrol troopers in a video released Thursday. Video from a dash-mounted camera, released by the State Patrol, shows the Fridley man's final minutes of life.

Ari Feldman remembers being in Jerusalem a few years ago on Yom Ha'atzmaut, the day Jews celebrate the creation of Israel. People filled the street and gathered at the Western Wall, he said, many wearing blue and white, the colors of the national flag. Lights were on all over the city, and "everybody's dancing and being happy."

Bob Bierscheid, one of St. Paul's most highly regarded administrators, has announced his retirement.

A call for applicants to fill a vacant Roseville City Council seat garnered a surprising turnout.

Most of the time, it's the library that asks people to be quiet. In Stillwater, it's the other way around.

South St. Paul police Capt. Dan Vujovich is sure his second stint as top cop will last longer than his first.

Tensions brewing for weeks between the University of Minnesota and other officials behind the Central Corridor boiled over Thursday in the form of a spirited e-mail exchange and fiery rhetoric.

ST. PAUL—Minnesota officials are releasing video of a Taser incident that ended in the death of a 29-year-old motorist.

In this world, pain comes man-made, self-inflicted or natural. But it's always relative. Kyaw Kyaw, of St. Paul, knows this better than most.

After a man allegedly stabbed his wife in St. Paul, the family called Hmong elders before police were contacted, police said Wednesday.

The husband of a St. Paul day care provider whom kids called Papa Gene was charged Wednesday with molesting three children at the day care.

For one year, Alice Krengel lived at the Dorothy Day homeless shelter in St. Paul, banned from her West St. Paul home by a district court.

Did Michael John Anderson attempt to pay someone to take his rap for the death of Katherine Ann Olson?

The longest-serving member of the Eagan City Council announced she will resign on July 1 to spend more time with her family.

In a rare turnaround of its generally strict policies toward entertainment and drinking, the St. Paul City Council on Wednesday started thinking about making it a little easier to drink outdoors.

Carlos Gomez has made it imperative that his first plate appearance in every game must be seen or heard for purposes of amusement and entertainment. More than that, even, he is an antidote to anything that might have gone wrong for you during the day. Fender bender? So what, Carlos is playing tonight. Got laid off? Well, there's always Carlos.

One of the last original copies of the Declaration of Independence has come to town.

A St. Paul woman has been charged in a stabbing Sunday that left her boyfriend in critical condition.

Bus service and park-and-rides will be in Lakeville by 2009 under an agreement City Council leaders unanimously approved Monday with the Metropolitan Council.