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Barrio Lowertown exits St. Paul neighborhood after 15 years

Barrio, a restaurant and tequila bar that brought some badly needed life back to St. Paul’s Mears Park in 2009, called it quits on Friday in Lowertown. A printed sign posted within the door says: “Barrio Lowertown has closed. Our...

Curio Dance marks 10 years in Stillwater with latest space

Curio Dance’s latest 9,400-square-foot constructing in Stillwater features specialty sprung flooring, natural lighting and spacious studios. Nevertheless it’s the brand new laundry room and storage areas within the $2.4 million constructing which have Curio staff really excited. “We didn’t have...

Longtime Mendota supper club Axel’s closing after nearly 30 years

Axel’s restaurant in Mendota is permanently closing this month, the restaurant announced recently in an Instagram post. “You could have been wonderful and we would like to thanks from the underside of our hearts for making us your destination to...

Manhunt underway for man charged with murder of pregnant wife in St. Paul. He was convicted in one other deadly shooting 16 years ago.

Prosecutors have charged a St. Paul man with two counts of murder within the shooting of his pregnant wife. Mychel Allan Stowers, 36, was in prison until March for fatally shooting a person in St. Paul in 2008. A nationwide...

Man shot by St. Paul officer during manhunt in sex assault case on trial 4 years later

A Dakota County jury is weighing the case of an alleged sexual assault that led to the suspect’s shooting by St. Paul police 4 years ago. The prosecution says Joseph Javonte Washington, now 35, forced his girlfriend to drive to...

Mancini’s quest to honor Italian Americans 4 years after toppling of State Capitol Columbus statue

It’s been empty since June of 2020 and the statue that when stood atop the granite pedestal is packaged away somewhere near the State Capitol. St. Paul restaurateur Pat Mancini knows that it's unlikely the 10-foot-tall bronze depiction of Christopher...

‘Vanished’: 25 years since Nathan Edberg’s vehicle was found abandoned in Vadnais Heights, seek for answers continues

Nathan Edberg has been missing for more years than the time he and his family had together. “We’ve lived longer without him than with him. That was a tough milestone to cross,” his mother, Jackie Edberg, said Monday, the day...

Purple Genealogy celebrates 40 years of ‘Purple Rain’ with High School for the Recording Arts mural project

“There’s no way the three of us would have ever met each other were it not for Prince Rogers Nelson,” explained Cinzia Inzinna, as Norvis Long-Parker and Nadine Rivers-Johnson readily nod in agreement. Respectively, these three women hail from the...

Peter Warner, assistant city attorney and city council adviser, retires after 36 years

While immersing himself in city codes and procedures, Peter Warner never lost his love for the outside. The assistant St. Paul City Attorney spent greater than three many years advising the town’s Planning Commission, its Board of Zoning Appeals...

Gun utilized in Minneapolis homicide linked to St. Paul Recent Yr’s killing

A gun utilized in a recent Minneapolis homicide is linked to a St. Paul killing, in line with law enforcement. Investigators learned the gun utilized in the shooting of a 19-year-old man outside a Goal store within the Quarry shopping...
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St. Paul prevails in legal fight to raze, replace historic Hamline-Midway Library

Following 16 months of litigation, a Ramsey County district judge has given the town of St. Paul the go-ahead...
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St. Paul-based Securian Financial lays off 58 employees across departments

Securian Financial has notified 58 employees — roughly 2% of its total workforce — that their roles with the corporate are being eliminated in...

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum seeks thirteenth term in rematch with May Lor Xiong in 4th District

Longtime St. Paul Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is in search of one other term in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District and again faces May...

Believed to have been the oldest working nurse in Minnesota, Joyce Gimmestad retired at 88. She reflects on 7 many years in healthcare

Joyce Gimmestad hoped to succeed in 90 before retiring from being a nurse. Still, she retired on June 22, at 88, attributable to a...

Family of 83-year-old St. Paul man killed in hit-and-run: ‘We’ll forgive you. … Please turn yourself in’

For 30 years, John Bidon took each day runs around Lake Phalen near his St. Paul home. He’d stretch it out to 5 miles...