Susan Swedell was 19 years old when she disappeared back in 1988. Officials say she had stopped at a gas station in Lake Elmo ...

Swedell was last seen getting into a car with a man at a Lake Elmo gas station during a blizzard on Jan. 19, 1988.

On Tuesday, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office plans to share details of Swedell’s disappearance with inmates in the ...

It happened on the night of January 19, 1988, when Swedell had just finished her shift at the K-Mart in Oak Park Heights.

I don’t like losing people and I want them to feel appreciated,” Sheriff Steve Harr said. “... They’re doing a very difficult ...

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Lake County has an overflow of inmates and a lack of beds as the jail is over capacity.Lake County Commissioners held a ...

Officers packed the courtroom as Jeffrey Tillman, the man accused of stabbing a jail deputy, stood before a judge.

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