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Area Minnesota DNR Conservation Officer Weekly Reports - May 25, 2021 Written By: Denton L. Newman Jr | 7:00 am, May 25, 2021 × District 4 - Walker area CO (Conservation Officer) Jacque Hughes (Longville) removed and released a snapping turtle that had fallen into an egress window. She also checked angling activity. Enforcement was taken for no license in possession and expired registration. CO Michael Cross (Lake George) primarily focused on angling and ATV enforcement...

Attorney General Ellison has settled its lawsuit against the landlord.

State Patrol: Waite Park Man Hurt in Pine County Crash The Minnesota State Patrol says the crash happened just after 6:30 a.m. in Brook Park. Twenty-three-year-old Adam Boyer was driving his pickup eastbound near Beaver Claw Road when it left the road, hit the embankment and came to a rest in the ditch. Boyer was taken to the hospital in Mora with non-life-threatening injuries. Get our free mobile app

Master Sergeant Dave Greiner Contributed Minnesota Air National Guard A longtime member of the Minnesota Air National Guard, on his way to one of his last drill weekends before retirement, was killed in a head-on crash on Interstate 35 after another vehicle reportedly crossed the median near Hinckley and hit his vehicle head-on.  According to the Minnesota State Patrol, on the afternoon of Friday, May 14, a 2017 Kia Sportage driven by David Thomas Greiner,...

Updated: 6:57 PM CDT May 16, 2021 PINE COUNTY, Minn. — A man was killed and two people were critically injured in a two-car interstate crash near Hinckley Friday afternoon.  According to crash reports from the Minnesota State Patrol, the crash happened at about 4 p.m. on I-35, one mile south of Hinckley.  A 45-year-old man from Garfield, Minnesota was killed within his 2017 Kia Sportage while driving northbound, when the the driver of a 2005 Mitsubishi Endeavor traveling sou...

Lives change, and cabins with them May 6, 2021 — 10:25pm Text size Copy shortlink: My grandfather built a cottage on Otter Tail Lake, as did many of his fellow Norwegian Lutheran pastors. My mother got first dibs for succession as the eldest child. My parents opened a variety store in nearby Battle Lake, Minn., 15 miles away — we could live at the lake all summer and commute to town. Wonderful childhood memories were made there. We...

An Iron Range man was jailed late last week in Pine County after allegedly possessing numerous controlled substances while skipping out on court-mandated house arrest. Thomas Michael Gilley, 27, faced an active warrant for his arrest on April 30, when authorities say he violated stipulations of his supervised release and was found possessing drugs about 75 miles from his assigned treatment center. A St. Louis County judge in Hibbing approved an increased bail amount for Gilley on April 6, raisi...

A Million Dollar Secret: Is the Piper kidnapping ransom buried in Willow River?  article After her kidnapping in 1972, Virginia Piper made it back home. But, nearly 50 years later, a mystery still remains. (FOX 9) WILLOW RIVER, Minn. (FOX 9) - Nearly 50 years later, it remains one of Minnesota’s greatest unsolved crimes: Who kidnapped Virginia Piper? And where is the million-dollar ransom? Virginia Piper, the wife of investment banker Harry Piper, was kidnapped July 27, 1972, from the ga...

Photo: Minnesota Sheriffs Association. Tayla Horn KSTP Created: April 22, 2021 12:37 PM Authorities say a 14-year-old who was reported missing in Pine County has been safely located.  The Pine County Sheriffs Office confirmed Tayla Horn was safely located Thursday afternoon and is returning home.  Copyright 2021 - KSTP-TV, LLC A Hubbard Broadcasting Company

Updated: 1:33 PM CDT April 22, 2021 PINE COUNTY, Minn. — The Pine County Sheriffs Office said a missing teenage girl has been found safe. According to a post on the Pine County Sheriffs Office Facebook page, 14-year-old Tayla Horn originally did not show up at school in the Sturgeon Lake area this morning. Investigators say Horn left a note for her mother saying she was going to bike to school, but she never arrived. Around 1:30 p.m., the sheriffs office updated its post to sa...