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NOTE: This is a sample of recent incidents involving the Woodbury police. All subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty. A South St. Paul man reported Jan. 6 that he spotted two suspicious males at Central Park. The men hadn’t committed a crime, but “looked out...

Check your mailboxes in the next week, folks. If you’re one of the lucky ones, you’ll be chosen to weigh in on topics like roundabouts, city-run programs and services, and the overall quality of life in Woodbury. The “selection,” so to speak, will come by way of Woodbury’s...

The South Washington County School Board believes Superintendent Keith Jacobus has the district pointed in the right direction. That was the conclusion the board reached after a closed meeting Jan. 22 to discuss Jacobus’ mid-year evaluation. School Board Chairman Ron Kath, reading...

ST. PAUL -- Gov. Mark Dayton wants Minnesota to collect and spend more than $40 billion from state taxpayers in the next two years, without a general tax increase. As always for Dayton, key in his budget proposal he was releasing today is increasing education funding, this year...

ST. PAUL -- Gov. Mark Dayton wants Minnesota to spend about $11 billion more in the next decade to improve the state's roads and bridges and boost transit. The governor on Monday said Minnesotans would pay 16 cents or more per gallon in a new tax on gasoline (on top of the 28.5...

School District 833 is closer in its bid to purchase Valley Crossing Community School. The South Washington County School Board on Thursday approved a resolution to terminate duties of the intermediate school district that operates Valley Crossing for District 833 and its two...

While Woodbury City Council gave the go-ahead on a road rehabilitation project scheduled for 2015, council members tapped the brakes on a proposal to take away some on-street parking as part of that project. A public hearing was held for the 16-mile road rehabilitation project at...

Emotions gushed from both sides of a packed courtroom Friday at a hearing for two men who admitted to selling the drugs that led to a Woodbury teenager’s death. Parents, friends and relatives laid out competing arguments for justice versus leniency at a sentencing hearing for...

A new $1.2 million computer-aided dispatch system scheduled to come on line in 2015 will change the way all emergency services are delivered to all Washington County residents. It will still be a few months before the new system comes online around the county, but when it does, Washington...

South Washington County Schools could eliminate dozens of classroom positions, slash some academic programs and seek employee furloughs as it looks to cut $8 million from next year’s budget. Or, the district will avoid some of those cuts by tapping reserve funds that were going...