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Second suspect pleads guilty to robbing Inver Grove Heights Verizon store
A second man has pleaded guilty to last year’s armed robbery attempt at a Verizon Wireless store in Inver Grove Heights. Jamaal Marquie Mays, 33, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in...
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St. Paul teen charged with murder in Inver Grove Heights party bus slaying
Dakota County prosecutors have filed murder charges against a 17-year-old St. Paul boy who allegedly fired the shot that killed a 19-year-old man outside an Inver Grove Heights movie theater. Trashaun...
View ArticleInver Grove Heights to get new brew pub in old Ruby Tuesday building
The suburban sprawl of the craft brewing movement continues, this time with a brew pub planned for a former Ruby Tuesday building in Inver Grove Heights. The owners of Lakeville Brewing closed on the...
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Inver Grove city official suspended, after ‘grow up’ and other comments, sex...
The city administrator of Inver Grove Heights has been suspended for three days without pay for insulting a co-worker and making an offensive comment about her dress. Joe Lynch, city administrator...
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You can have your own private Mississippi River island. It might be a...
Dakota County Special Duty Deputy Ryan Holmquist shows an unnamed island Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018 in the Mississippi River near Inver Grove Heights that will be auctioned to the public early next year....
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Inver Grove Heights hit-and-run victim identified, suspect arrested
The driver who struck and killed a 55-year-old Inver Grove Heights grandmother turned herself in after seeing a post on social media about the incident Sunday, police said. Police say that Haimanot...
View ArticleFour pedestrians struck and killed on east-metro streets in three days
A rash of east metro crashes involving vehicles striking pedestrians — including four fatalities — has prompted warnings from police officials for both drivers and pedestrians to be hyper-aware of...
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Driver suspected in Inver Grove Heights fatal hit-and-run ‘believed she...
The driver who is suspected of striking and killing a 55-year-old Inver Grove Heights grandmother Saturday told investigators she thought she had hit a deer. Breyona Cotton, 30, went to the Inver Grove...
View ArticlePassenger killed when car rear-ended in Inver Grove Heights; drugs suspected...
A 29-year-old man has died after the car he was a passenger in was rear-ended in Inver Grove Heights Friday night. Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed of Minneapolis was a passenger in a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am...
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Inver Grove Heights pilot has taken 600 Young Eagles on free flights
Madison Doffing was born after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but the annual photos of the airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center had made her fearful of flying. “I’d be afraid that we would...
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After suspension, Inver Grove city administrator given to-do list for...
The recently suspended city administrator of Inver Grove Heights has been given a to-do list of things meant to “grow professionalism” and build trust with city workers. The city council met last month...
View ArticleDakota County picks Inver Grove Heights site for statewide police training...
Dakota County has zeroed in on a spot for its public safety training center. The county and Inver Grove Heights have agreed on a nearly $1.1 million purchase price for a 6.3-acre city-owned site —...
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Their antidote for red vs. blue political poison: conversations
Sam Erb made Republicans seem like the worst self-hating psychos on the planet. “We are racist, homophobic, sexist, deplorable, Islamo-phobic and any other kind of phobic there is,” said Erb, a...
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Shot by a clerk during an Inver Grove Heights robbery, now sentenced
The armed robber shot by a clerk during a 2017 robbery of a Verizon store in Inver Grove Heights was sentenced this week to 15 years in prison. Jamaal Marquie Mays, 34, of Crystal, pleaded guilty this...
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Finalists for Inver Grove police chief include two internal candidates, a...
Finalists hoping to be the next Inver Grove Heights police chief again include internal candidates Sean Folmar and Joshua Otis — both of whom were finalists for the job in 2017. The city received 30...
View ArticleMinneapolis police commander picked to be next Inver Grove Heights police chief
Melissa Chiodo, a commander for Minneapolis police since 2016 who has spent nearly 23 years with the department, has been tapped to be police chief in Inver Grove Heights. The city council on Thursday...
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Bridget Cronin led nonprofit that helps vets with PTSD, served on Inver Grove...
Bridget Cronin, who served on the Inver Grove Heights school board for a decade, was an advocate for children with autism and helped veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, has died after...
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Invasive, destructive emerald ash borer has been spotted in Inver Grove Heights
Add Inver Grove Heights to the growing list of metro-area cities with the ash-tree killing bug. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has confirmed an emerald ash borer infestation in three trees in...
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Local glider pilots ‘flying high’ over surprise win in national soaring...
Two metro pilots are still flying high after beating out eight contenders last week to claim a national soaring championship. Richard Andrews, 70, of Hastings and Barry Jaeger, 62, of Inver Grove...
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Former polluted land in Inver Grove Heights now a dog park
A formerly polluted rail yard site has gone to the dogs. Inver Grove Heights will open up its only off-leash dog park — a 10-acre pooch playground, with one acre set aside for small breed dogs — during...
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