The Fourth of July is coming early this year on Lake Minnetonka, where the annual fireworks show has been rescheduled for tonight due to forecasts of heavy rain and thunderstorms across the Twin Cities metro area. The fireworks are scheduled to begin at 9:50 p.m. tonight at Excelsior Commons Park. The fireworks display was moved […]
Authorities have arrested the man wanted in the warrant service in Minnetonka that turned violent earlier this month, injuring two sheriff’s deputies and leaving another man dead. Joshua Ramos, 34, of Minnetonka, was arrested Thursday in St. Paul with the help of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, St. Paul police and Ramsey County authorities. Hennepin […]
The man who exchanged gunfire with Hennepin County deputies Wednesday during a firefight that left him dead and two of the deputies injured was not the subject of the arrest warrant they were there to carry out, according to emergency dispatch audio and confirmed by a law enforcement source. Clint Hoyhtya, 28, was identified as […]
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office declared ice-out on Lake Minnetonka on Wednesday, just days shy of a record date amid a warm Minnesota winter. The declaration, made about 5:53 p.m. Wednesday, is the unofficial start of the boating season on the metro area’s largest lake, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Officials on Wednesday […]
Downtown Minneapolis’ longstanding YWCA building on Nicollet Mall is about to get a new owner. St. David’s Center for Child and Family Development, a Minnetonka-based nonprofit that provides mental health and autism services to children, announced Saturday that it’s buying the 120,000-square-foot building. The sale comes more than six months after the YWCA shocked the […]