By the time you've called an ex-boyfriend 3,482 times in just six weeks and been in trouble five other times since 2000 for harassing calls to him, maybe it's time to realize this man is not worth your time. You've spent nine years of your life calling this man and he doesn't seem to be digging it. Find a new man to call 24/7, perhaps? Some guys dig that.
Lynn Marie Mechels, 43, of Andover, Minn. made the calls over the summer. She was charged last month with one count of making harassing phone calls and one count of pattern of harassing conduct. Both charges are felonies. In August, she told police her phone possibly called her ex-boyfriend by accident. Right.
And the worst part: She's been doing this since 2000.
Former Minneapolis City Hall power-broker Al Garcia was in federal court Tuesday on charges that he distributed meth for six years.
Garcia was a familiar face at City Hall in the 1980s and 1990s, helped get former councilmembers Joe Biernat, Steve Minn, Lisa McDonald, and Jackie Cherryhomes elected. Now Garcia, an attorney, has been disgraced and disbarred, accused--in two separate cases--of distributing methamphetamine and forcing a potential client to have sex with him.
On Tuesday, Garcia appeared in federal court and pled not guilty to the meth distribution charges. He is free on a $25,000 bail. The former lobbyist has somehow convinced the judge that he can't afford an attorney--a federal a public defender has been assigned to take his case.
Lynsee's due date is coming up! The 23-year-old teacher from Minneapolis is planning to deliver live online.
She's been documenting her pregnancy -- and her growing belly -- on her blog, Watch Lynsee Grow! on MomsLikeMe Web site. Why would anyone want to expose their pregnant self to the public?
Well, Lynsee is a teacher at heart. Recently, she returned to her old teaching job in Apple Valley and talked to her students about her motivation. Doesn't look like she's grubbing for money or her own reality show. Check out what she said to KARE-11 below:
"I've had plenty of women say, 'You're absolutely insane. You're going to have your delivery live on a website and this is your first baby? What are you thinking?' Well, (for) me as a family consumer science teacher, I feel like I am the textbook and the people in my (online) group are the classroom," said Lynsee.
Eden Prairie's Lion's Tap Restaurant was appalled when they saw billboards for McDonalds near their location proclaiming "Who's Your Patty?" in a multimillion-dollar ad campaign for their new Angus burger.
The local restaurant with only one location claims they have been using that slogan for four years, have it trademarked in Minnesota and have submitted a federal application for it as well.
The Lion's Tap owners sued the Fortune 500 company over the dispute, trying to force the burger giant to pay up for stealing their words. But McDonalds doesn't seem to care and won't even pretend to be worried. This is small town BS in their world.
Science nerds, arm chair rock stars, and gamers, meet Roxanne.
Pete Nikrin, a manufacturing engineer, teamed up with an instructor at his alma mater, Minnesota West Technical College, to create a Guitar Hero-playing robot for some awesome reason. The (paranoid) android can detect transitions between light and dark pixels in whatever it is she's focused on, thanks to a sensor implanted in her left eye (the patch-like abrasion over said eye is not, as we first surmised, a nod to the late Lisa Lopes).
The Minnesota couple who gained super stardom on YouTube earlier this year when their wedding entrance dance went viral. Now the video has more than 27 million hits. Well their wedding dance fame hit a pretty awesome high: The Office spoofed it during Jim and Pam's wedding episode last night. Kind of saw it coming, but it was still epic.
Check it out below, but hold off if you are a real Office fan and didn't catch it last night. The whole episode is great.
A pizza deliveryman wasn't willing to give up his pies for anything and managed to fight off two attackers as they maced him to try and steal his delivery.
Their attempt at a late-night snack Wednesday didn't end so well as the deliveryman managed to stab one of the attackers in the chest with a letter opener. A win for pizza delivery everywhere.
The attack happened in the Paybe-Phalen neighborhood, according to the Pioneer Press. The deliveryman had two large pizzas and was walking up to a home when he was attacked around 10:45 p.m.
A man met him in the front yard and when Tou Mo Cha tried to give him the pizza, the man in the yard sprayed him in the face with mace. A second man appeared and also attacked Cha, who pulled out a letter opener from his pocket and stabbed the second man in the chest. The men ran off with no pizza to speak of.
Maybe it was the perfect weather, the "staycations" due to the poor economy, or lifelong fans bringing state fair virgins along for the adventure. But we're just proud to say Minnesotans went all-out this year and ate a disgusting amount of greasy grub in just 12 days of bliss.
The Minnesota State Fair beat the all-time attendance record set in 2001. According to the state fair Web site, 1,790,497 people came through the gates this year. The 2001 record was 1,762,976.
At least you can rest assured knowing that most Minnesotans are also just as bloated as you are from overeating cheese curds and lemonade. Where are the gym membership deals when you need them?
This Minnesota couple will be featured in National Geographic, but no one really cares about that. Look at that freaking squirrel!
The curious squirrel that meandered into their camera's view in Canada is now world famous and will be forever remembered on the glossy pages of National Geographic, according to the Star Tribune.
The squirrel's photo will now sit in attics for centuries piled along with other NatGeo's people collect for no real reason but to look worldly and educated.
Melissa and Jackson Brandts submitted the photo to the NatGeo "Your Shot" site where visitors can vote on their favorites. The photo was a clear winner and the Brandts told the Strib that their photo will be featured as the editor's pick in the November issue.
But being in the pages of NatGeo is old news when you are a worldwide star and hilarious meme. Check out the Squirrelizer if you haven't already. It's endless fun.
An 8-year-old Minnetonka boy is one heck of a superhero after he jumped into a pool at his grandparent's condominium and saved his grandpa from drowning.
Tanner Jensen was about to jump into the pool when he saw his grandfather, Curtis Hort, lose his balance and fall while taking off his robe. He broke his hip and then slid headfirst into the pool.
Tanner jumped in after his grandpa who couldn't swim. His right side wasn't moving and Hort says he was afraid he was going to drown.
Mayor R.T. Rybak didn't have the football smarts to create his own fantasy football team, but he sure knows how to toss around the dirt about his competition on the interwebs.
Yesterday, Rybak announced his participation in a Fantasy Football League where he is competing against mayors from across the country. Winner gets $15,000 for a local charity. The city picked as the favorite as voted by people on the site wins another $15,000.
Rybak has his eyes set on the prize and appears ready to trash talk his way to the top. He even commented on one of our sister paper's blogs to diss the San Francisco and Oakland mayors he is competing against.
Did tornadoes just hit Minneapolis this week or did we make that up?
When Jesse Piotrowski was awoken by the sound of a woman crying for help in Mankato Tuesday morning, he jumped from his bed wearing just his shorts. When he came outside, he found a woman on the ground being attacked by two rottweilers.
He came to her rescue with sweet martial arts moves that forced the dogs to surrender. Talk about a real-life superhero.
After the St. Paul wedding dance video became an internet sensation last month, the couple turned their new-found fame into an opportunity to raise some cash for a local group aimed at preventing domestic violence.
The video of Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz dancing down the aisle on their wedding day has received more than 20 million hits on YouTube and put them in the spotlight on most network morning TV shows. They even recreated their dance on NBC's Today Show.
A Fridley family is safe after they escaped their home as someone was trying to break in. The break-in happened around 5 a.m. Thursday and the family ran to a neighbor's home to call police.
A short time later, police found a 28-year-old man hiding under a parked car just down the street. Excellent hiding spot, man. Next time we recommend at least getting into a different neighborhood before you crawl under a car. Or it might just make sense to escape the city altogether.
Fridley police are expected to file first-degree burglary charges against the man.
Airports might seem like the perfect place to steal. You take your items minutes before your plane's last boarding call, slip in at the last second and off you go never to be caught by security. Unfortunately it doesn't exactly work that way. And don't forget that airports know exactly who is inside their building at all times. It's called a boarding pass or employee ID.
This guy apparently didn't think it all through. Gagandeep Singh, 20, has been charged with felony burglary after trying to use a plane as a getaway vehicle at the Lindbergh Terminal.
Police say he stole $1,500 in good including watches, cologne, sunglasses, and stuffed animals from airport stores and tried to get on a plane with them.
Stuffed animals? For real? We'd say they aren't exactly worth the risk as a 20-year-old man, but we're sure your girlfriend is really proud right now.
We have another Minnesota bank robber that proves that these criminals have absolutely no common sense. Please find another way to illegally make money because this line of work is causing serious problems. At least we get some great crime blotters out of the deal.
After a man robbed a bank in Cannon Falls, he probably thought he was done for when a cop pulled him over. When he realized the cop only pulled him over for speeding, the alleged criminal gave over a ton of personal information, including the home address to find him later that day.
That came back to bite him in the butt as cops made one of the easiest arrests ever.
Minnesota Public Radio's Than Tibbetts pointed us to this great story and video out of Cook, Minn. Goldie Knapp, an 84-year-old great grandma, wanted to go skydiving before she died. And this month, she jumped out of a plane and it looks like she had the time of her life.
It was only a matter of time before someone besides Chris Brown got some serious bank off the Minnesota wedding couple's epic dance down the aisle that turned into a YouTube sensation. The video has nearly 13 million views since last week when the couple posted it and now Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson are hoping their video's popularity can help a good cause too.
Many people questioned their choice of Chris Brown's "Forever" for their coordinated dance entrance at the church because Brown beat his then-girlfriend Rihanna until her face was black and blue. So the couple is asking fans of the video to donate money to help stop domestic violence.
Their new wedding site directs people to donate to the Sheila Wellstone Institute. We're proud of their choice to support a great local organization and counter Brown's ridiculous fame.
They chose to support domestic violence "due to the circumstances surrounding the song in our wedding video," their site says.
If you haven't seen or heard of the Minnesota wedding processional dance that turned into a YouTube phenomenon last week, you're probably living under a rock. The video has been linked to on almost every major news site and the couple has appeared on national morning TV shows. They even recreated their boogie down the aisle on NBC with the wedding party backing them up.
Nearly 9 million people have viewed the YouTube clip and many are wondering how this came to be such a hit with people around the world.
New York Magazine's Dan Kois called it one of the best pieces of musical theater this year. Impressive, right? Kois is able to eloquently sum up what makes this video so magical to everyone who watches it.
We all know as we watch that video that Brown is a lady beater, but somehow that horrific image disappears as that joyous wedding party boogies down the aisle. And we're not the only people who feel that way. People are flooding YouTube trying to get their hands on Brown's song that made that wedding entrance so perfect.
The Minnesota couple-turned-Internet-superstars had their big moment in the spotlight last week when the YouTube video of their wedding procession blew up around the world. The video of their wedding party dancing down the aisle to Chris Brown's "Forever" has nearly 8.5 million views as of this morning, but don't expect that kind of fame without some good old-fashioned New York City bitchiness.
Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson flew out to the Big Apple Friday for a live interview with ABC's Good Morning America. NBC's Today Show also swooped in for a spot with the couple. And before they knew it, their fun turned into disaster when ABC canceled their hotel room and flight for playing with their competitor.
Former auto giant Denny Hecker pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor careless driving charge, according to the Star Tribune. His driving under the influence charge has been dropped.
On Dec. 3, Hecker crashed his SUV into a pole near his home in Plymouth. He spent several days in the hospital recovering from his injuries.
We later found out this man's bloodstream was a mobile pharmacy. A state lab reporter a plethora of prescription drugs in his system including three painkillers, a stimulant, an anti-anxiety medication and sleeping pills.
Hecker has fallen from his spot on top of the Minnesota auto dealerships in the last year, closing 25 of his dealerships and filing for bankruptcy in June. Thousands of employees have been laid off.
Yesterday we posted this awesome wedding procession that took place in St. Paul. The wedding party's entrance was more of a coordinated dance down the aisle to a Chris Brown tune.
Well now the world is falling in love with this couple. Jill and Kevin Heinz posted the video on YouTube on July 19. When we posted the video yesterday, it already had 190,000 views. By this morning, that number had skyrocketed to 1,350,000.
The couple married at Christ Lutheran Church and the wedding party only had one rehearsal of the dance. They even made an appearance on Good Morning America to talk about their wedding and Jill says she always planned to dance down the aisle and just had to find the right man.
The couple also made it on The Today Show and the whole wedding party will be back to perform the routine live. Video and original YouTube clip below.
We had to look twice, and fact check it, when we saw BoingBoing post this epic wedding entrance. They said it took place in St. Paul. Could it be?
Yes it could. And it is epic. A true party in God's house. Why don't we get invited to weddings like this? Makes the total snooze of a ceremony so much more tolerable.
Only problem: They are dancing to Chris Brown's "Forever". We'd recommend keeping him out of any wedding ceremony unless you want guests envisioning you punching your wife.
But honestly, we don't even care. This is great. Even grandma up front is getting down. And if Ashton Kutcher loves it, we have to dig it too.
It's one thing to walk around town calling yourself "St. Cloud Superman", but this man's crazy sidewalk antics are really ticking off some residents in the city. When Superman starts imitating spanky sexual acts, making fun of people's disfigured body parts, and questioning an officer's sexuality, we even start getting a little annoyed.
This sounds more like a scene from "Airplane", but it's even better because it's real.
A 68-year-old Minneapolis man pleaded guilty in federal court to head butting and spitting on another passenger during a flight from Amsterdam to Minneapolis on Northwest Airlines.
His plea agreement didn't explain why he thought it would be wise to head butt someone on an airplane.
The incident happened in July 2008. Abdalla Abdi Haibe pleaded guilty to one count of assault. He could face up to six months in prison for the attack.
Any Prince sighting in public would be magical, but this one tops all of our wildest dreams.
While we were off celebrating him at First Avenue with a dance party in his honor, he was on a plane to New York, where he was seen looking ... fabulously weird.
"PRINCE on a first-class flight from Minneapolis to La Guardia, reading Elle magazine, carrying a gold- and diamond-encrusted walking stick and wearing flip-flops with sparkly silver socks."
Police say the 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment after an officer found the child alone in the car while the man was drinking in the bar.
We can't think of a better man to win a father of the year award.
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