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Around 9 p.m. on Aug. 28, South St. Paul police returned to an area they had been at only an hour earlier, this time on a report of shots fired. They found two people who'd been shot at the scene.

The school boards of both South St. Paul Public Schools and Inver Grove Heights Schools have approved putting two questions each on the upcoming November ballot.

South St. Paul

A man was found hanging from a tree by a passerby in Indian Mounds Regional Park the morning of Aug. 1. According to St. Paul police, officers responded to the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood park at about 5:40 a.m.

The South St. Paul Police Department is investigating a homicide that took place early Aug. 2.

Painful year comes to a head with June 16 verdict

Glenn Charles Burke of Inver Grove Heights pleaded guilty on June 21 in Dakota County District Court to four felony counts of theft by temporary control and two felony counts of theft by swindle. 

Grant David Hendrickson, 28, of South St. Paul, was sentenced June 19 to 32 years in prison for killing a man and wounding another in a shooting that took place last year at a Burnsville Dollar Tree. 

On June 19, the South St. Paul City Council unanimously approved a resolution to send the state its bonding requests. 

South St. Paul clarifies odor ordinance

The South St. Paul City Council approved an ordinance amendment May 15 that will help provide an objective standard for any odor complaint received.