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Authorities say a 21-year-old pedestrian from Eden Valley, who was trying to cross train tracks in Meeker County, was hit and killed by a locomotive early Saturday morning. The Minnesota State Patrol says Nicholas Phillipp …
13 Aug 12
The Red Cross Bloodmobile is in the area this week. On Monday, donors can give blood in Olivia at St. Aloysius Church from 1pm until 7pm. On Tuesday, the Bloodmobile is in Hutchinson at Peace …
13 Aug 12
Minneapolis/St. Paul – With the team’s 86-50 victory over France, the 2012 U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team captured the USA’s fifth consecutive gold medal on Saturday. The medal is the first for Minnesota Lynx players …
12 Aug 12
The Minnesota Garlic Festival takes place on Saturday (today) at the McLeod County Fairgrounds in Hutchinson. Events are taking place in the Agribition Building and the Commercial Building. Plus many vendors will be set up …
10 Aug 12
A Hutchinson man has been charged after allegedly bringing a handgun into a bar early Tuesday morning. 25-year-old Andrew Lawrence Lee is charged with theft and terroristic threats. Lee was arrested during an incident that started when he allegedly …
09 Aug 12
A former Henderson woman who was facing a first-degree murder trial in September for killing her newborn baby more than a decade ago reached a plea deal Wednesday that resulted in an eight-year prison sentence. …
09 Aug 12
38-year-old Matthew James Wrobleski of Willmar pleaded guilty to a felony theft charge and was sentenced to 39 months in prison Tuesday in Meeker County District Court. The West Central Tribune reports the Meeker County …
09 Aug 12
A virus suspected to be Newcastle disease has killed hundreds of birds on Pigeon Lake in west-central Minnesota and on Minnesota Lake in southern Minnesota. The Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday that around 700 …
09 Aug 12
Next year’s Minnesota Governor’s Fishing Opener will be held in the Brainerd Lakes Area on May 8-11, 2014. Explore Minnesota Tourism, the state’s tourism promotion office, organizes this event each year in coordination with a host …
