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December 2, 2025

Senate Bonding Tour Visits Projects in West Metro/Southwest MN

(Learfield News/Undated) — The Senate Capital Investment Committee continued its bonding tour Monday in the west metro and will be in southwest Minnesota Tuesday. Scheduled stops include visiting seven communities to learn about 11 proposed infrastructure projects that will be requesting state matching funds. The stops include Loretto, South Haven, New London, Lake Lillian, Marshall, […]

December 2, 2025

Paynesville Man Injured in Farm Accident

A Paynesville man was injured Sunday in a farm accident. The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office says at about 6pm, a caller reported that 30-year-old Jarrod Quade had been run over by a tractor at a location just northwest of Paynesville. Quade was airlifted to HCMC in Minneapolis for treatment of serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Authorities […]

December 1, 2025

Pretrial Hearing for Suspect in Fatal Shooting of United Healthcare’s Thompson

(Learfield News/Manhattan, NY) — There is a pretrial hearing this morning (Mon) in New York state court for the man accused of killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Twenty-seven-year-old Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to nine state charges including murder. Prosecutors say the 50-year-old Thompson of Maple Grove was gunned down in cold blood […]

December 1, 2025

St. Cloud Man Injured in McLeod County Crash

A 19-year-old from St. Cloud was injured in a single-vehicle crash in McLeod County Saturday afternoon east of Silver Lake. The State Patrol says Abdiwasa Ahmed was taken to Hutchinson Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. The Patrol says Ahmed was traveling eastbound on Highway 7 when the vehicle left the roadway near Fox Avenue […]

November 26, 2025

Shed and Contents Destroyed in Meeker County Fire

A shed and its contents were destroyed by fire in Meeker County Tuesday night. The Sheriff’s Office says at just after 9:30pm, they received a report of a shed fire in the 16000 block of 720th Avenue in Collinwood Township. On arrival, the 60’ x 136’ shed was fully engulfed. The shed was filled with numerous […]

November 26, 2025

Snowstorm Dumps Up to 8 Inches in Minnesota

(Learfield News/Chanhassen, MN) — The National Weather Service says the snowfall is expected to wind down this morning (Wed) as the system moves out of Minnesota. Forecasters were predicting three to eight inches and Moose Lake received 8.3 inches. Hermantown, Baxter, and Rothsay are reporting seven inches; six-and-a-half inches fell in Brainerd and Pelican Rapids; […]

November 26, 2025

Wright County Deputy Shoots Man Armed with Knife

(Learfield News/Monticello, MN) — The Minnesota BCA is investigating a shooting by a Wright County sheriff’s deputy that wounded a man with a knife in Monticello. Authorities responded to the report of a man with a large knife yelling in the street Tuesday night near the Monticello Country Club. The report says the suspect ignored […]

November 26, 2025

Driver Injured When Concrete Truck Tips Over

A driver was injured when the concrete truck he was driving tipped over in Redwood County Tuesday morning east of Redwood Falls. The State Patrol says 55-year-old Gregory Benson of Willmar was taken to CentraCare Redwood Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. The Patrol says Benson was traveling northbound on Highway 71 and the truck […]

November 26, 2025

One Injured in Two-vehicle Crash in Kandiyohi County

One driver was injured in a two-vehicle crash in Kandiyohi County Tuesday afternoon north of Willmar. The State Patrol says 92-year-old Gordon Steffen of Willmar was taken to Willmar Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. The other driver, 17-year-old Kayden Andrist of New London, was not injured. The crash happened on Highway 71 at 66th […]

November 25, 2025

REDWOOD FALLS MAN SENTENCED ON DRUG AND FIREARMS CONVICTIONS

A Redwood Falls man will serve  eight-and-a-half years in federal prison on felony firearms and drug convictions.  Prosecutors say 41-year-old Andrew Munsinger was a member of the Aryan Freedom Network, a white supremacist organization, when he was arrested in February 2024.  The FBI searched Munsinger’s properties and seized semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, a semiautomatic pistol, high-capacity […]
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