The fire stories from our Patch sites in the Twin Cities this week include a grocery store that had to discard food contaminated by smoke.
The top police and court stories from our Patch sites in the Twin Cities this week include a car plunging off an overpass and onto a frozen pond.
The Oakdale Fire Department provides residents with its calls for service each week.
A pilot who flew out of Flying Cloud airport crashed on the Maplewood/Oakdale border June 19.
The crash happened when a Maplewood woman lost control of her pickup.
The Washington County Drug Task Force found 119 marijuana plants in Joel Paul Easton's bedroom.
Danielle Jae Brand, 26, will go to prison for first-degree violation of controlled substance laws.
The top police, court and fire stories from our Patch sites in the Twin Cities this week include a woman who slashed another woman’s face with a butcher knife.
With sex toys, racing pigeons, naked burglaries and more, the past year had some crazy moments.
Heather Renee Mathews, 26, of Minneapolis is charged with theft by swindle.
The top police, court and fire stories from our Patch sites in the Twin Cities this week include a Level III sex offender moving to a Twin Cities suburb.
See the top-read crime stories of 2013.
With the church under fire, the league fired back that MPR is delaying the release of information in order to benefit its editorial schedule.
A security breach at Target has impacted literally millions of credit card users. What can consumers do to protect themselves?
The box was not a bomb, but operations came to a halt for two hours.
The top police, court and fire stories from our Patch sites in the Twin Cities include a man found dead in a car pulled from a burning garage, priest misconduct and a stabbing threat.
While some are waiting to see how the investigations play out, others are frustrated with a church embroiled in controversy over clergy sex abuse accusations.
Court documents say Aaron Schnagl gave Danielle Jelinek the cocaine that ultimately could have killed her, and allegedly hid her body in a pond near his Chisago home.
The rollover crash near MN Hwy. 95 shut down the interstate's eastbound lanes Monday night.
Joshua Lloyd Buhl, 32, is charged with making terroristic threats.
We looked at stories from across America in the year since the shootings at Sandy Hook School to try to illustrate the scale of the problem.
Two news outlets are reporting a Tartan High School student was injured in the encounter.
The top police, court and fire stories from our Patch sites in the Twin Cities include a woman shot in an apartment, a couple who left a baby in a car and a kidnapping.
The Stillwater resident had pleaded guilty to first-degree assault for punching Bayport resident Adam McCloud at Smalley’s Caribbean Barbeque in downtown Stillwater in 2012.
An Oakdale officer discovered a car had been reported stolen, so he followed it and stopped it on westbound Interstate 94. Anthony Derell Perry was driving.
Julius Loren Duke, 23, is charged with making terroristic threats.
Only 30 clerics were on last week’s list of accused priests, but an animated Patch map and interactive timeline illustrate the scope of their time in the ministry.
The top police, court and fire stories from our Patch sites in the Twin Cities include more information on a fatal crash into a pond, a stabbing and a prisoner escape.
The woman told police that someone sent her about 113 text messages within a 24-hour period in late July.
Oakdale Police Department calls from Nov. 18-24.
The top police, court and fire stories from our Patch sites in the Twin Cities include a police chief possibly moving to another city.
Cassie Jo Burkhart-Chevre has been charged with felony credit-card fraud. She was convicted in September of misdemeanor theft in Hennepin County Court.
Michael Lyle Vincent Wilhelm is set to be sentenced on an earlier car-theft conviction on Jan. 30.
Oakdale Police Department calls from Nov. 7-18. The initial report of a strangulation in Landfall is included in this report.
Police said the driver might not have known that he hit the boy near Pump It Up.