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July 18, 2024

Hutchinson Man Sentenced in 2022 Rape

A Hutchinson man has been sentenced to more than 7 years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl in Danube in 2022. Twenty-four-year-old Jordan Frietag was sentenced in Renville County District Court Tuesday to 85 months after pleading guilty earlier this year to 1st Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct.. As part of a plea agreement, five […]

July 18, 2024

Willmar Man Pleads Guilty in Drug Overdose Death

(Learfield News/Willmar, MN) — A man from Willmar has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the drug-related death of another man in Willmar earlier this year. Nineteen-year-old Xavier Soto, will be sentenced October 29th and could face a prison term of 6 to 9 years. Investigators say Soto in late January sold pills to the […]

July 18, 2024

Lt. Gov to Join 4H Students at Farm in Litchfield

[ST. PAUL, MN] – Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan is scheduled to visit a farm in Litchfield today (Thursday) to spend time with 4-H students preparing for the Minnesota State Fair. The 4-H Youth Development Program has six million participants annually and enrolls approximately 65,000 youth ages 5-19 in Minnesota each year, representing the largest youth […]

July 17, 2024

MN Ban on Young Adults Carrying Handguns in Public Ruled Unconstitutional

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says he’s “extremely disappointed” that a federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that Minnesota’s ban on 18- to 20-year-olds carrying handguns in public is unconstitutional. Ellison calls it “reasonable safety legislation,” noting “Just days ago, a 20-year-old tried to take the life of the former President of […]

July 17, 2024

St. Cloud Murder Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison

(Learfield News/St. Cloud, MN) — A man who pleaded guilty for his role in the 2022 St. Cloud fatal shooting of 39-year-old Michael Batsche has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. Fifty-five-year-old Paul Coleman pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree murder in March. His co-defendant, 44-year-old Alphonso Cotto, was sentenced to over 22 […]

July 16, 2024

Stearns Co Death Investigation

Stearns County authorities are investigating the death of a man they say jumped from Veterans Bridge in St. Cloud Friday whose body was later found in 14 feet of water. At about noon, authorities responded and a St. Cloud Police Officer confirmed someone was floating south on the surface of the water before losing sight […]

July 15, 2024

Granite Falls Man Pleads Guilty to Criminal Sexual Assault

(Learfield News/St. Paul, MN) — A man from Granite Falls has agreed to plead guilty to charges of second-degree criminal sexual conduct after prosecutors say he held his girlfriend captive for four days in her dorm room at Saint Catherine University in Saint Paul, raping, beating, and waterboarding the victim before she escaped. The Star […]

July 14, 2024

Assassination Attempt on Former President Trump

(ABC News/Butler, PA) Former President Donald Trump says he was shot in the ear after a gunman perched on the roof of a nearby building opened fire at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday — a harrowing incident that the FBI called an assassination attempt. The shooting, which set the country on edge on […]

July 12, 2024

ALL HIGHWAYS IN SOUTHERN MINNESOTA WILL BE OPEN AFTER TODAY (FRIDAY)

MnDOT says Highway 93 between Le Sueur and Highway 169 is scheduled to open at 4 pm today (Friday).  MnDOT expected it to be open by 4 today (Friday) with a five-ton weight restriction for about two weeks.  Repairs to highways, bridges and culverts along with debris clearing operations are expected to continue this summer […]

July 12, 2024

Eden Lake Township Fire

Fire destroyed a building in Eden Lake Township, north of Eden Valley early Wednesday morning. At about 3am, the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from the homeowner at 16218 County Road 9 saying they woke up to loud popping noises outside their house and they saw flames and black smoke coming from […]
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