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UMN News
April 20, 2018
The University of Minnesota's Resilient Communities Project (RCP) today announced Ramsey County and Scott County have been selected as its community partners for the 2018–2019 academic year. Due to both finalists' strong proposals, it marks the first time in its six-year history the program will assistÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
April 19, 2018
Minnesota's opioid epidemic was more deadly than ever in Ramsey County last year, taking the lives of 72 people, a 16 percent increase over the year before. The urgent need to address the crisis came into sharp focus again Thursday as law enforcement officials announced a counterfeit prescription drugÃâà...
KSTP
April 11, 2018
The FBI began investigating Hassan after becoming aware of comments she was alleged to have made to Ramsey County investigators as documented in a criminal complaint. She was indicted in February on three counts, including attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terroristÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
April 10, 2018
A rapid bus route is coming to St. Paul's East Side, and Ramsey County is asking for input on it from residents. The county is seeking residents and business representatives to serve on a community advisory committee for the Rush Line. The line would be a bus rapid transit corridor traveling from theÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
April 2, 2018
After four months of housing some of the hardest homeless residents to reach, Ramsey County's temporary “Winter Safe Space” closed Saturday. Some officials hope to see the 50-mat emergency overnight shelter return next winter. Others say St. Paul, Ramsey County, housing and human servicesÃâà...
Minnesota Lawyer
March 29, 2018
The Ramsey County Bar Association in March awarded its Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award to Briggs and Morgan attorney Sally Scoggin in recognition of her pro bono service to the community, both in representing clients and serving as a member of organizations dedicated to access to justiceÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 29, 2018
The Ramsey County Board of Commissioners this week approved nearly $1 million in planned improvements to the county's administrative offices within the Ramsey County Courthouse on St. Paul's Kellogg Boulevard. Last renovated in 1992, Suite 250 was designed to house 24 county staff members inÃâà...
White Bear Press
March 28, 2018
... • Employees discovered the brake lines on three semitrailers severed March 14 behind a manufacturing plant in the 1200 block of Willow Lake Boulevard. Repairs were estimated at $350-500. No suspects. • Target security folks kept their eyes on a known shoplifter the afternoon of March 14, watchingÃâà...
Lillie News
March 27, 2018
With pothole season in full swing, Ramsey County has released a list of its planned road construction projects for 2018, yet another sign of spring. Out of 22 projects planned to start in the coming months, seven are in the Roseville Review and Bulletin newspaper coverage areas. The county reminds driversÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 21, 2018
Kyle Werstein, a 25-year-old software developer and musician, works online in his apartment at The Ray, a new apartment building in St. Paul's Midway area, on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Home values are growing in Ramsey County, but still lag peak values from early 2007. Apartment buildings, on theÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 15, 2018
The Ramsey County sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a man in an SUV during a confrontation with law enforcement officers last spring in Vadnais Heights will not face criminal charges. The county attorney's office, after reviewing the case since January, announced Thursday that Ramsey County sheriff'sÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 14, 2018
St. Paul Regional Water Services will allow St. Paul and Ramsey County to lease 4.3 acres of grassland just south of the Historic Water Tower on Snelling Avenue for recreational uses. The city and county were among 11 potential developers who responded to a request for proposals last summer.
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 5, 2018
The dissolution of the Ramsey County Conservation District may not have to go to public ballot after all. In early February, citing political dysfunction on its elected board, the conservation district's board of supervisors voted 3-1 to begin the process of dissolving the conservation district and transferringÃâà...
CBS Minnesota / WCCO
March 3, 2018
According to the Ramsey County Sheriff's office, police discovered the cache of guns, ammunition, at least one explosive and a ballistic vest Friday at the home of a 13-year-old boy in Vadnais Heights. Investigators say he threatened another student from the Academy for Sciences and Agriculture.
KTTC
March 3, 2018
Authorities say a 13-year-old boy and two adults have been arrested after a cache of firearms, ammunition and explosive devices and at least one ballistic vest was discovered at a Vadnais Heights home. The Ramsey County Sheriff's Office says Friday's search by federal and local officers was spurred by aÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News
March 3, 2018
Ramsey County deputies uncovered a cache of firearms, ammunition, at least one ballistic vest and explosive devices after searching a Vadnais Heights home as they investigated a school student's threat. One juvenile and two adults are in custody, Ramsey County Sheriff Jack Serier told reporters lateÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 2, 2018
The owners of the Maplewood Mall say that Ramsey County is assessing them too much for property taxes. Maplewood Mall, LLC filed a petition in Minnesota Tax Court arguing that for the purposes of calculating their 2016 taxes, payable in 2017, the mall's property value was “unequally assessed whenÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 1, 2018
With a long scar visible atop his head from where part of his skull was removed to alleviate his brain swelling, Markus Jackson stood in a Ramsey County courtroom Wednesday and told the man responsible for it that he forgave him. The 20-year-old spoke quietly with his hands behind his back as heÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 1, 2018
Darren Jahnke's sister Jenny Vance and their mom, Ann Jahnke, comfort each other during a news conference at the Ramsey County Law Enforcement Center in St. Paul on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. Darren Jahnke was killed by four Ramsey County sheriff deputies while working on a friend's motorhome inÃâà...
East Side Review
February 28, 2018
Solomon Gustavo photo • Hats off — sheriff's deputies, some seated together, others with family or friends, had a meal of chicken and rice and watched their Ramsey County Sherriff's Office colleagues recognized at the sheriff's annual Employee Recognition Ceremony at North Heights Lutheran Church inÃâà...
KSTP.com
February 21, 2018
DIGITAL EXTRA: Ramsey County Sheriff Department Employees Honored. February 21, 2018 07:40 PM. A number of Ramsey County Sheriff's Department employees received recognition from the sheriff for exceptional work Wednesday. "These folks don't question what they ought to do," sheriff Jack Serier said. "They justÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
February 6, 2018
A Ramsey County judge is considering how to deal with a dispute over whether Republican Michelle Fischbach can serve as both Minnesota's lieutenant governor and as a state senator. The dispute arises from Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton's decision to appoint Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to the U.S. Senate lastÃâà...
Minnesota Lawyer
February 1, 2018
Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said Thursday that he will seek his third term in office. “I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish by working together with a wide variety of partners to achieve meaningful results for our community and I am eager to engage voters in this election cycle,” ChoiÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 31, 1999
While this “Coffee With A Cop” will be the first in Falcon Heights, it's one of a series of such events held in the six suburban communities that contract with the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office for law enforcement services. It's also the first chance for county officials and deputies to chat with Falcon HeightsÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
December 31, 1999
After a 57-year-old died by suicide at the Ramsey County jail, a Minnesota Department of Corrections official determined jail staff didn't properly check the well-being of inmates, though he concluded that did not appear to have “directly impacted” the man's death. Christian Alexander Smalley, 57, was in theÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
December 31, 1999
Two weeks before his death, John Connolly was still at work doing what he'd always done: fighting for the underdog. The former Ramsey County district judge — who also managed the presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy twice and ran for office multiple times himself — died Wednesday in St. PaulÃâà...
KAAL
December 31, 1999
(ABC 6 News) -- An SUV, reported stolen in Olmsted County, was found burned in Ramsey County, MN. According to ... Just after 9 a.m. on Sunday, April 15, The St. Paul Police Department found a vehicle in Ramsey County with the same license plate as the stolen SUV in Olmsted County. St. Paul PoliceÃâà...
