Conversations captured by a private investigator on the payroll of the St. Paul Daily News led to the ouster or suspension of more than a dozen police officers in 1935.

Local moviegoers mobbed the two metro theaters that had won exclusive rights to screen that summer’s hottest blockbuster: the Gopher Theater in Minneapolis and — somehow — the tin…

As a young attorney working for a legal aid organization, Hortman took up the housing discrimination case of a Minneapolis woman.

The book’s lukewarm reception in the local press may not be surprising given its author’s complicated relationship with St. Paul, one historian said.

As a Ramsey County jury downplayed St. Paul’s crime problem in March 1934, John Dillinger was shooting his way out of a Lexington Avenue apartment complex.

Spurred on by proponents of the pseudoscientific eugenics movement, Minnesota was one of 32 states to enact such a law during the first half of the 20th century.

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A gang of local boys led police to the cave hideout of a wanted killer after recognizing his photo in the newspaper.