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In 1941, the asylum, now known as Anoka State Hospital, had its very own float in the wildly popular Anoka Halloween Grand Day Parade. The float featured patients and nurses alike and was ...

Staff at the Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center say safety conditions have deteriorated so badly at the state-run psychiatric hospital that many are afraid to go to work. Workers say staff ...

ANOKA, Minn. - The haunted reputation of the former Anoka State Hospital is known throughout the state - and even beyond it. From apparitions appearing in the windows, to an eerie feeling in the ...

CMS has extended federal oversight of the hospital through May 2018. Though the state has hired more staff and retained a consultant to recommend changes, there are signs that Anoka-Metro is still ...

On Halloween night 1949, Minnesota Gov. Luther Youngdahl stood aside a bonfire outside Anoka State Hospital and, with fanfare, burned 359 straitjackets and hundreds of other restraints he said ...

ANOKA, Minn. — A 23-year-old patient from a state psychiatric hospital escaped the facility and stole a police car last week in Anoka. According to the criminal complaint, the patient escaped ...

A patient at the Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center, a state-run center for the treatment ... no longer providing security at mental health hospital An officer located the patient in a backyard ...

But on Saturday, Nelson's name will be fastened to an auditorium on a former state hospital campus in Anoka that now is home to dozens of veterans. On the sign will be the logo for the nonprofit ...

The Anoka Police Chief says the security arrangement ended in part because officers were limited in what kinds of actions they could take in what is considered a hospital situation. As for Taggart ...

I learned they had worked in the Anoka State Hospital and the Brainerd State Hospital as staff. Early patients in state hospitals had few visitors, according to Brixius. Changes came, especially ...

“We’re here to help and support families.” Back in the 1980s, Leo Coleman Cortez left Anoka State Hospital, intending to meet his sister at a St. Paul bus depot. Coleman Cortez, who is ...