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May 8, 2024

Former GM of KDMA & Bigfoot Honored with Baseball Game

Minnesotans honored on Tuesday a family man and community pillar whose life ended too soon. Andy Coulter died of cancer in March, leaving a hole in the Montevideo community he loved dearly. Before the high school’s varsity baseball game, a ceremony was held for Coulter. Tim Epema, the varsity coach who also coached Coulter, says […]

May 8, 2024

MnDOT Selects 11 Freight Rail Improvement Projects

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Eleven freight rail projects will receive a total of $9.6 million in funding to improve freight rail service that supports economic development in different regions of the state. The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that the grants are provided through the Minnesota Rail Service Improvement program with funding approved during the […]

May 7, 2024

Former President Trump to be Keynote Speaker at MN Republican Party Dinner

(Learfield News/St. Paul, MN) – Former President Donald Trump will keynote the Republican Party of Minnesota’s annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner, on May 17th at Saint Paul’s Rivercentre. Minnesota GOP Chairman David Hann says there are indications from the Trump campaign that they consider Minnesota a battleground state. He states the polling is “very, very close […]

May 6, 2024

Willmar Man Accused of Tossing Meth from Vehicle

Charges are pending on a 35-year-old Willmar man after he did not stop for a deputy and allegedly threw drugs from the vehicle as he continued driving. On Saturday evening, a Kandiyohi County deputy sheriff was notified of a complaint of a possible intoxicated driver. The deputy located the vehicle at the intersection of Highway […]

May 6, 2024

Fatal Renville Co Crash

A driver died and his passenger was seriously injured in a one-vehicle rollover crash in Renville County Saturday night. The Sheriff’s Office says 89-year-old Donald Deleeuw of Cosmos died at the scene. Authorities say he was driving a minivan southbound on Meeker County Rd 1, failed to stop for the stop sign at the intersection […]

May 3, 2024

St. Cloud Man Charged for Attempting Knifepoint Robbery

(St. Cloud, MN) — A St. Cloud man faces felony charges for allegedly trying to rob a convenience store at knifepoint. Officers were called to a Marathon gas station around 10 pm Wednesday on a report of a man with a knife fighting a store employee. They say 27-year-old Jonathan Jovel attempted to buy $130 […]

May 3, 2024

Pro-Palestine Encampment Taken Down on U of M Campus

(Learfield News/Minneapolis, MN) — The pro-Palestine encampment is gone from the University of Minnesota East Bank campus in Minneapolis. All the tents came down Thursday after an agreement was reached between U of M interim President Jeff Ettinger and UMN Divest Coalition and student groups. Twelve academic buildings that were closed during protests on the […]

May 2, 2024

Extra Speed Enforcement Now On Minnesota Roads

As Minnesotans take to the roads for summer fun they can expect law enforcement to be waiting to catch speeders. Officials say a speed enforcement campaign started May 1st and will continue through Labor Day weekend. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 87 percent of all speeding-related traffic deaths across the U.S. occurred […]

May 2, 2024

Public Comment Sought on Lac qui Parle WMA Master Plan

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources invites people interested in the Lac qui Parle Wildlife Management Area to share their thoughts on a draft update of the master plan for the popular hunting, fishing and wildlife-watching destination in southwestern Minnesota. The updated master plan will be used to guide management of the WMA’s prairies and […]

May 2, 2024

Danube Man Arrested in Willmar for Threats of Violence

A Danube man was arrested Wednesday afternoon after threatening he would “shoot the place up” at a Willmar business. At just after 2pm, police were dispatched to a business at the 4100 block of south 1st St. The caller said there was a man at the business who was unhappy and made the threat. The […]