Jesse Poole

Wielding a large kitchen knife, a woman experiencing a mental health crisis approached New Brighton police officers in a public park, waving the weapon at them and disobeying their commands. 

On June 16, less than an hour after officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted of all charges for fatally shooting Philando Castile, St.

Theodore Roosevelt was president. Oklahoma became a state. The Ford Motor Company was still a year away from producing its famous Model T. The earth had 5.75 billion fewer people. 

Hundreds of people showed up to a July 7 event in Falcon Heights to celebrate the life of Philando Castile, a year and a day after he was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop just down the road, on Larpenteur Avenue.

During a July 6 naturalization ceremony in Shoreview, 28 people — representing 18 countries of origin — took an oath of citizenship, becoming citizens of the United States. 

Deputies on horseback may seem like a thing of the past, but they’re no strangers to Ramsey County — not anymore. 

After some 70 years of operation, Lowry Grove, once home to about 90 households, is now empty.

Residents of St. Anthony Village’s only mobile home park had to vacate the property by the end of the day, June 30. 

Between the fatal shooting of Philando Castile at the hands of a St. Anthony police officer and the eviction of residents from the Lowry Grove mobile home park, more than 100 people showed up to the June 27 St.

Jesse Poole

news editor

A Mounds View man recently admitted to calling multiple women and attempting to engage them sexually over the phone in scores of unwanted phone calls. 

A bar fight in Little Canada took a dangerous turn when a St. Paul man retaliated with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun June 24.