Inver Grove Heights: Tom Bartholomew pulls ahead for mayor, John K. Murphy...
Tom Bartholomew has won a race for Inver Grove Heights mayor in a tight contest with Brenda Dietrich. Bartholomew pulled in 458 more votes than Dietrich. With mayor George Tourville’s two-year term...
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Inver Grove Heights man indicted on murder charges in April shooting after...
An Inver Grove Heights man has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder in connection with a South St. Paul shooting in April that left one man dead and another injured. According to the...
View ArticleMore city halls in Twin Cities to close due to COVID restrictions
One by one, city halls are closing to the public. St. Paul and Minneapolis have not announced city-hall closings, but a number in the suburbs have. A Friday spot-check shows that the city halls of...
View ArticleObituary: Vance Grannis Jr. was the first mayor of Inver Grove Heights and an...
Vance Grannis Jr., an Eagan attorney who was the first mayor of Inver Grove Heights, where he helped preserve more than 100 acres of his land through a conservation easement, died Tuesday at age 83. A...
View ArticleVideo of very cute, very tipsy Inver Grove Heights squirrel goes viral
A video of an Inver Grove Heights squirrel that got drunk off fermented pears is blowing up on the Internet. In the video Katy Morlok posted on her YouTube channel Saturday, the tipsy squirrel is seen...
View ArticleInver Grove Heights council finds HR manager did not violate data practices law
The Inver Grove Heights City Council has concluded the city’s human resources manager did not violate the state’s data practices law, but did decide to give her a written reprimand over claims that she...
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Inver Grove Heights and city administrator to part ways
Inver Grove Heights is parting ways with its city administrator, Joe Lynch. Lynch has been in charge of leading the city since 2006 but in 2019 was suspended for violating a respectful workplace...
View ArticleFirefighters battle greenhouse fire at Gertens in Inver Grove Heights
A greenhouse fire at Gertens Garden Center and Nursery Sunday night sent firefighters from four departments to the Inver Grove Heights business in an effort to contain the damage, which ultimately was...
View ArticleMan found dead in snowbank in Inver Grove Heights, police are investigating
Authorities are investigating the death of a man was found dead in an Inver Grove Heights snow bank Monday morning. At around 8 a.m., Inver Grove Heights police were called to a neighborhood in the...
View ArticleCharges: Drug buyer shot seller in head, left body in snowbank in Inver Grove...
A Sunday night drug deal led to the death of the seller, who was shot in the head by the buyer and left in a snowbank in Inver Grove Heights, according to charges filed Thursday in Dakota County...
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Misdemeanor assault allegation against Inver Grove Heights city administrator...
A police investigation over a misdemeanor fifth-degree assault allegation against the city administrator of Inver Grove Heights is complete and will be referred to a hired law firm to decide whether to...
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Second suspect arrested in slaying of man found shot in Inver Grove Heights...
A second man has been arrested in connection with the Jan. 31 shooting death of Bryant Lutgens, whose body was discovered in an Inver Grove Heights snowbank last week. Kyle Michael Reagan (Courtesy of...
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Second suspect charged in slaying of man found shot in Inver Grove Heights...
A Minneapolis man is accused of being an accomplice in the Jan. 31 shooting death of Bryant Lutgens, whose body was discovered in an Inver Grove Heights snowbank last week. Dakota County prosecutors...
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Driver sentenced in fatal hit-run of grandmother in Inver Grove Heights
An Inver Grove Heights motorist who struck and killed a grandmother and then left the crash scene was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in jail and 30 days of electronic home monitoring. The 2019 crash...
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COVID-19 survivor’s life may be changed — permanently
Greg Beaudoin survived 54 days on a ventilator in Bethesda Hospital with COVID-19 and is now recovering at home in Inver Grove Heights, March 3, 2021. (Scott Takushi / Pioneer Press) In the before...
View ArticleBill seeks state funds to study viability of a sports and training center in...
Legislation was introduced this week at the state Capitol that would study the viability of building an amateur sports and training center in the south metro. Bills in the House and Senate ask that...
View ArticleSouthbound U.S. 52 between St. Paul and Inver Grove Heights closed this weekend
Southbound U.S. 52 between Plato Boulevard in St. Paul and Interstate 494 in Inver Grove Heights will be closed this weekend — beginning at 9 p.m. Friday — so crews can resurface the road, the...
View ArticleState Patrol: Motorcyclist killed after hitting road sign in Inver Grove Heights
A 31-year-old St. Paul man died after crashing his motorcycle Thursday night in Inver Grove Heights. Kou Yang was headed north on Highway 3 around 7 p.m. and lost control of his 2015 Yamaha Motorcycle...
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Dakota County study recommends a new library for South St. Paul
A Dakota County-led study is recommending that a South St. Paul library be built on city-owned land, a proposal that has the support of the city council but also comes in at $2 million more than what...
View ArticleNorthbound U.S. 52 from Inver Grove Heights to St. Paul closed this weekend...
A six-mile stretch of northbound U.S. 52 will be closed this weekend for resurfacing. According to the Minnesota Department of Transportation, all lanes will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m....
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