Dakota County

On April 10, President Donald Trump nominated First Judicial District Judge Erica MacDonald to be the next U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota. 

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week begins April 8.

Two teenagers have been charged in connection with the March 24 fight and shootings outside an Inver Grove Heights AMC Theatre that left one dead and another injured.

Police still searching for suspect

A fight between two groups of men on a party bus turned deadly in the early morning hours of March 24 outside an Inver Grove Heights AMC movie theater.

A Catholic priest pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct for having sex with a woman during a “private Mass” at her parents’ Mendota Heights home in summer 2010.

ELECTION 2017

The results are in for the South-West area school board elections and bond questions that were decided Nov. 7.

The South St. Paul City Council was applauded Oct. 2 when it unanimously voted to revoke the rental license for a duplex that was the scene of the drive-by shooting in August.

The victim of an Aug. 24 house fire on Delilah Avenue in Inver Grove Heights has been identified.

Around 9 p.m. on Aug. 28, South St. Paul police returned to an area they had been at only an hour earlier, this time on a report of shots fired. They found two people who'd been shot at the scene.

He remains in the hospital

A 32-year-old Crystal man has been charged in connection with an Aug. 17 armed robbery of an Inver Grove Heights Verizon store, during which he was shot by the store clerk.