Minnetonka Athlete Playing With A Heavy Heart After Loss Of His Mother
Amar Miller is a junior at Minnetonka High School. He's a good football player in the fall and a great basketball player in the winter.
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Amar Miller is a junior at Minnetonka High School. He's a good football player in the fall and a great basketball player in the winter.
The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office is investigating a report of a sexual assault at a county treatment facility for troubled teens. The assault allegedly occurred at the Hennepin County Home School on the 14000 block of County Road 62 in Minnetonka.
Minnetonka boys basketball head coach Chris Carr has been placed on administrative leave while the school investigates an alleged physical altercation with a male high school student. A source told WCCO the incident occurred Tuesday at school after Carr's high school-aged daughter told him she had been involved in a fight with the boy.
Many of the state's top winter teams are in action this weekend before taking a break for the holidays. Here are some of Friday's top match-ups in basketball and hockey.
You delayed holiday gift shopping for as long as you could. Now, with the number of shopping days shrinking and the clock ticking down, what can you buy at the eleventh hour? Gail Bollis, owner of the General Store Of Minnetonka, and Jenny Putnam, a buyer for the store, have some charming gift ideas for the last minute shopper.
One person is hospitalized after being hit by a train in Minnetonka, according to a BNSF Railway official.
Minnesota-based Cargill is reportedly planning to restructure, in a move that Reuters is reporting will include layoffs. The report says that the company will also be closing offices in the restructuring.
A convicted sexual predator is charged again with raping a teenage girl -- this time at gunpoint in a Minneapolis alley earlier this month. The Hennepin County Attorney's Office says 34-year-old Charles Edward Stevenson was charged Thursday with one count of first-degree penetration while armed with a dangerous weapon and one count of providing false information while registering as a sex offender.
Shop locally this Black Friday for great holiday savings.
Critics of the proposed Southwest Light Rail line are trying something new in their attempts to stop the project. On Saturday they tied green ribbons on trees that they say would be taken out to make way for the tracks along the Kenilworth Corridor in Minneapolis.
A Minnetonka teenager is hoping his new book can help benefit cats. Justin Anderson wrote a book called "Saving Stripes: A Kitty's Story." It's written from the perspective of their cat, Stripes.
A Minnesota family vacationing in Mexico was forced to evacuate their hotel Friday as Hurricane Patricia headed straight for the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.
"Famous Dave" Anderson has rejoined the struggling barbecue restaurant chain that bears his name. Minnetonka-based Famous Dave's of America Inc. says Anderson has returned to the company after a reorganization of the board of directors and executive management team.
Starting next year, Walgreens will no longer be an in-network pharmacy for people with HealthPartners insurance. So how do insurance companies decide who's in-network? Good Question.
Motorist should expect a detour if they are planning on taking southbound Interstate 494 in the western Twin Cities metro area this weekend, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
A Minnesota mother of two is part of a very elite group. Her business is one of 65 in the United States that will split $20-billion worth of contracted IT work. In her Minnetonka office of Ideal System Solutions ...
An effort to clean up a popular Twin Cities lake is underway Saturday. Dozens of volunteers will comb the beaches and shoreline of Lake Minnetonka to pick up all the trash left behind from a busy summer of boating. They will also hand out garbage bags at boat launches to encourage boaters to recycle.
It has been a week since police discovered a gruesome scene in Greenwood -- five members of a family dead. South Lake Minnetonka Police say Brian Short shot and killed his wife and their three kids with a shotgun before killing himself last week.
It's Week 2 in high school football and pretty much every team around the state is back in action Friday night after last week's unusual Saturday start. We're now back to Friday night action under the lights, what every high school football player dreams of when they put the pads on for fall practice.
A St. Bonifacius woman charged with stealing more than a half a million dollars from her employer is expected to make her first court appearance next week. Karen Jane Breyette, 53, has been charged with seven counts of theft by swindle over $35,000.
It's nearly a month until fall starts, but lately it felt like pumpkin and cider weather was already upon us. Some wore sweatshirts or long sleeves as they walked around Lake of the Isles, it got down to 54 degrees Monday.
Hundreds of people hit the baseball diamond for a great cause Sunday. The Big Wiff, as it's known, is a wiffle ball tournament, benefiting the Miracle League of Minnesota.
Newsweek Magazine has released its top 500 high schools in the country for 2015, and 10 from Minnesota made the list. Of those 10, one was able to crack the top 100. Newsweek bases its school rankings on a range of data on those that prepare their students the best for college.
After a summer of frustrating road closures, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced part of Highway 169 will be closed for up to a year! A stretch of Hwy. 169 in Hopkins, Minnetonka and part of Edina will close in fall of 2016 to the fall of 2017. Lanes in both directions will be closed for the whole year.
At an early hour on a near perfect Saturday morning, it seems like the entire Minnesota biking community came together for the annual "Tour De 'Tonka" ride.
