A woman died last night at about 8 p.m. in the Hennepin County Jail after being arrested for probable cause DWI at Highway 62 and 34th Avenue South, according to a news release from Hennepin County.

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I lost all respect for the U.S. Senate a long time ago, after the Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991.

Click here for a slide show from Saturday's Third District DFL convention, where Iraq War veteran Ashwin Madia was endorsed in the race for the seat held by Rep. Jim Ramstad, R-Minn.

The Hennepin County Board has scheduled a public hearing for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, on the 2008 Hennepin County Consortium Consolidated Action Plan.
 

Public comment is being sought on the draft plan for 30 days, beginning today. The public hearing is in the Hennepin County Board Room on the 24th floor of the Government Center at 300 S. Sixth St. in downtown Minneapolis.

Hennepin County has announced its 2008 road construction plans and states that construction on Pioneer Trail in Eden Prairie is expected to begin in fall 2008.

The county has $78 million in new construction projects slated, including the following:

According to a news release: Hennepin County Board Chair Randy Johnson will deliver the 2008 State of the County Address Thursday, April 10, at the Best Buy Co., Inc. corporate campus in Richfield.

The following is a news release from Hennepin County:

The Hennepin County Board will hold a special meeting at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1, before regularly scheduled committee meetings, to consider resolutions pertaining to implementation of a 0.25-percent sales and use tax increase to support expansion of metropolitan transit options in Hennepin County, including participation in a governing board directing use of the tax revenues, according to a news release from the county.