05/16/2008 12:00 AM According to the Minneapolis FBI, the man who robbed the TCF Bank in Hastings May 9 is also believed to be responsible for bank robberies in Duluth, Forest Lake, Oakdale, St. Paul and most recently, Roseville May 14.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM David Bauer could have come back from his job with the military to be a civilian weather forecaster, but that just didn’t sound very exciting to him.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM The Hastings community will remember those Hastings men and women who served their country but did not return home at Memorial Day observances Monday, May 26.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM The trial of former Hastings High School baseball and assistant girls basketball coach Charles Ames Brookins on charges of providing alcohol to minors will not include any evidence of a romantic or sexual relationship Brookins allegedly had with a female student, a judge ruled recently.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM A Saturday night fire at Guardian Angels Apartments could have ended in one or more fatalities had the building’s smoke detector and fire sprinkler systems not been working properly, Hastings Fire Chief Mike Schutt said.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM A new building is almost ready at Schaar’s Bluff in the Spring Lake Park Reserve, six miles west of Hastings in Nininger Township.
The Schaar’s Bluff Gathering Center is at the west end of the park, overlooking the Mississippi River.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM Heidi and her dad, Jim Schultz, are members of the Hastings-based National Guard unit and will deploy together at the end of the month to Ft. Sill, Okla., and a few weeks later, to Iraq.
05/15/2008 12:00 AM Harry Magnuson faced death, actually thought his life was over, more than once in the war 60 years ago. He considers himself lucky to be alive.
The resident of the Minnesota Veterans Home Hastings, a World War II survivor, was a prisoner of war in Japan in late 1945.
05/12/2008 12:00 AM Three people were injured in a three-vehicle crash Saturday, May 10, on County Road 46 and Goodwin Avenue, just west of Hastings. Hastings Ambulance transported Paris and Vickie Pasch of Hastings and the driver of the second vehicle, Jamie Reyes-Sandobel of Apple Valley, to Regions Hospital in St. Paul.
05/12/2008 12:00 AM School District 200 is sending a special announcement concerning polling places to all residents in the district. One of the usual polling places has changed.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM The TCF Bank in Cub Foods was robbed Friday morning by a lone individual. He escaped the building with an undisclosed amount of cash, but the money didn’t make it past the parking lot.