Tag: Hopkins
Four defendants sentenced for violent robbery of Hopkins tobacco store
The last of four defendants in a violent Hopkins, Minn., tobacco store robbery last year was sentenced last week, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa...
‘Please do not print this message,’ Hopkins school district told staff...
Screenshots of internal emails obtained by Alpha News show that Hopkins Public Schools (HPS) held a forum for immigrant families to hear about "their...
Former Minnetonka charter school staffer charged with sexual solicitation of a...
In an update to a story Alpha News published in October, a former hall monitor at Eagle Ridge Academy in Minnetonka, Minn., has now...
Hopkins School Board member questions if people will survive climate change,...
At a recent school board workshop meeting, Hopkins School Board member Jen Westmoreland questioned whether people will survive climate change and white supremacy.
"If we...
‘Deeply troubled’: Hopkins parents petition school board for improved safety in...
A petition was presented to the Hopkins School Board during a June 11 meeting, calling on the board to provide a safe environment for...
Black student group says full story not being told about Hopkins...
A black student group has released a cryptic statement in response to a widely-covered news story about a transgender student who was reportedly beat...
Education Minnesota comes out of the values closet
It was a beautiful Saturday morning, and my to-do list was long. But before hitting that to-do list, I shamelessly took a scroll through...
DFLer Edelson wins special election in Hennepin County over conservative Simonetti
A springtime special election in the west metro tilted the way of the experienced politician as three-term DFL legislator Heather Edelson defeated political newcomer Marisa...
Former Hennepin County candidate alleges Walz snubbed her over Moriarty relationship
A DFL activist and Hopkins School Board member is alleging that Gov. Tim Walz gave her a politically-calculated cold shoulder last fall while she was...
Two charged in violent Hopkins grocery store armed robbery
Three female employees working in a Hopkins, Minn., grocery and tobacco store were assaulted and bound with duct tape during a robbery last month,...