Hennepin County Allows WCCO Camera In For Civil Trial
For the first time, a television camera was allowed inside a civil trial in Hennepin County.
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For the first time, a television camera was allowed inside a civil trial in Hennepin County.
Despite the lingering recession and the devastation brought to Minneapolis by last summer's tornado, the city says that a group effort between it, Hennepin County and many community partners has curbed street homelessness by 40 percent and veteran homelessness by 33 percent since 2010.
A 39-year-old man from Bloomington has been charged after police say he threw several objects at cars and trucks, including a vise that seriously injured an Iraq War veteran.
You'll soon have the chance to get rid of unwanted prescription medications, as Hennepin County will have three locations to drop them off.
The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office says violent crime has decreased 38 percent countywide from 2006 to 2011.
A 22-year-old St. Paul man has been accused of burglarizing a Wayzata jewelry store and is being linked to others, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office.
The desperate screams woke Joni Bauer, of Independence, right out of bed, around 6:45am Saturday morning. At first she thought the noise was coming from the TV, but when she stepped out onto her deck overlooking Lake Sarah, she realized the screams were coming from the water.
After a rash of vehicles going into the water, the Hennepin County sheriff's office is banning cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles from all frozen lakes in the county.
A 30-year-old man faces eight felony counts of prostituting young girls throughout Minnesota over the last few years.
Visa card users will have to figure out a different way to pay for services in Hennepin County, as the county will no longer be taking their plastic.
A Minnesota judge who demanded more security in some suburban courtrooms has been reassigned, according to Hennepin County.
A Hennepin County judge wants more security in the courtroom. Until he gets it, Judge Lloyd Zimmerman says he won't hear cases at three suburban courthouses.
A 34-year-old Minneapolis man faces a 10-year prison sentence after a jury found him to be a danger to public safety.
The Department of Corrections says a fugitive Level 3 sex offender has turned himself in, four days after taking off his GPS bracelet and walking away from his halfway house.
The Department of Corrections has issued a warning after a Level 3 sex offender took off his GPS bracelet and walked away from his halfway house.
A cost-saving service that helps Minnesotans pay their traffic tickets and other citations by phone has now logged over 1 million calls.
Winter weather and new restrictions are making it increasingly difficult for the Occupy Minnesota protest to keep its place on the Hennepin County Government Plaza, which protesters have been occupying since Oct. 7.
A Hennepin County judge sentenced Monday a man who was convicted of having unprotected sex knowing all the while he was HIV-positive.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a lawsuit Monday against Hennepin County for allegedly restricting Occupy Minnesota protester's right to free speech.
Occupy Minnesota protesters put up with Saturday's snow and cold, but Hennepin County might not put up with them if the temperature drops too low.
Stink bugs have now reached Hennepin County.
Minneapolis area authorities who declined to remove anti-Wall Street protesters from a government plaza when a ban on sleeping there overnight went into effect declined to say Tuesday when or if they will begin enforcing the new law.
The identity of the man who was killed after an argument in south Minneapolis Saturday night has been released.
There are some new rules coming for the protesters who have been occupying a downtown Minneapolis government plaza for more than a month.
Occupy Minnesota protesters moved around Minneapolis Sunday looking for a place to build a longhouse to hold their winter meetings. But at each location, authorities told them to stop construction.
