Email Author Beth Hawkins

Awards

• 2007 - Page One Contest/Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, published May 10, 2006

  "The Heart of the Matter"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 21, 2005

  "Little Court of Horrors"

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1997 Stories by Beth Hawkins

• Off the Beat

  published December 3, 1997

  Carl Hiassen Lucky You Knopf Pete Hautman Ring Game Simon... More >>

• Death and Taxes

  published October 1, 1997

  From his Lakeville basement, Karl Granse has taught thousands how to throw off the shackles of Uncle Sam. The government says a fellow tax... More >>

• Stars and Bars

  published September 17, 1997

  The way Valentina Kostina sees it, the only reason she didn't get deported was because she didn't panic. She didn't get... More >>

• Fall Guy

  published May 28, 1997

  If Larry Gould was the sophisticated heroin dealer they said he was, he would have seen the whole thing coming. Fearing a... More >>

• Who Watches the Watchmen?

  published May 28, 1997

  EVEN IF MINNEAPOLIS'S Police Civilian Review Authority (CRA) is as toothless as its critics on both ends of the political... More >>

• State's Evidence

  published April 23, 1997

  When 19-year-old Milton Lewis accepted the plea prosecutors offered him in the 1995 killing of Steven Taylor, the sentence... More >>

• Genes Will Tell

  published April 9, 1997

  SEN. RANDY KELLY (DFL-St. Paul) likes to engage in the kind of debate that, in his parlance, makes "people think outside the... More >>

• Riverfront Double Play

  published April 2, 1997

  According to an old saw, every city has its conflicts of interest, but only in Minneapolis do they call them civic... More >>

• Home Field Advantage

  published April 2, 1997

  As a newspaper story, covering the debate over a new Minnesota Twins stadium should be like shooting fish in a barrel. It's got... More >>

• The Thin Black Line

  published March 26, 1997

  Call it the symbolic end of Tony Blakey's career. It was September 1995 and the St. Paul Police Department was hosting a... More >>

• The Long Goodbye

  published February 26, 1997

  THE SO-CALLED French abortion pill recently cleared the last hurdle to FDA approval, and should soon be available through... More >>

• The Polish Inquisition

  published February 5, 1997

  An eagle's eye view of Northeast Minneapolis would show an inordinate number of church spires: the onion-shaped parapets of St.... More >>

• Get Out of Jail Free

  published January 22, 1997

  It's not the kind of thing cops see every day, but when Officer Jeff Werner and his partner spotted a slender red beam of light... More >>