A Sioux Falls man is going to prison for killing a Minnesota police officer during a high-speed chase last year. Steven Stanke was sentenced yesterday to 40 years in prison. He stole a car from the Valvoline Oil Change parking lot in Sioux Falls last September.
Anoka scored touchdowns in each of the first three quarters and then held on to edge Coon Rapids 21-20 Friday and remain tied with Champlin Park for first place in the Northwest Suburban Conference at 6-1. The host Cardinals, looking for their first victory of the season, scored with 3 minutes, 25 seconds left on Jesse Trimble's 1-yard run to pull within a point. But the extra-point attempt was
Even if you're suffering from Mark Foley overload, bear with me. Here's something that should get you thinking. If Foley had sent his lurid messages to teenagers from a computer in Minnesota, he probably couldn't be prosecuted, at least at the state level.
Ahead of the midterm elections, people in Anoka, Minn., craved substance and not rhetoric, and wanted to hear about issues like health care and the war in Iraq.
All ballots cast in Minnesota on Nov. 7 will be electronically counted. State election officials say voters should feel confident about the state's voting equipment.
ANOKA COUNTY • Anoka-Ramsey Community College is seeing its largest enrollment in a decade. Since fall 2005, the number of new students is up by 6 percent and overall enrollment has increased by 4.2 percent, the college said recently. More than 7,500 students currently attend school in campuses in Cambridge and Coon Rapids.
Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf has met with the Star Tribune to explore buying the newspaper's downtown Minneapolis properties near the Metrodome, team and newspaper officials confirmed Friday. Though the Vikings have publicly emphasized their desire to build a new football stadium in Anoka County, Wilf had a meeting with Star Tribune Publisher J. Keith Moyer three weeks ago to talk about the
