A central Minnesota man has died after falling through his pole barn roof while trying to remove snow. Sheriff’s deputies from Morrison County arrived to find 46-year-old Verd Anez of rural Little Falls had died from apparent injuries suffered in the fall. The Ramsey County medical examiner’s office has not yet issued an official cause […]

Expect face peeling weather through Wednesday night and into Thursday, but SCSU Meteorology Professor Bob Weisman says there is a light at the end of the tunnel. With winds traveling up to 15 miles per hour for most of Wednesday, the wind chill could get as cold as -35 in central Minnesota. But things will likely warm up […]

Tea party Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is speaking in Honolulu during a luncheon. Bachmann is appearing Wednesday at the Ala Moana Hotel to discuss the 2011 congressional session. The lunch, sponsored by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, is sold out. Bachmann provided the tea party response to President Barack Obama’s state of […]

A 14-year-old St. Cloud girl is hurt after a two car crash on Highway 15 and West Division Street on Sunday. Investigators say a car driven by Judith Nixon Hook, a 68-year old resident of St. Cloud, was merging Southbound on Highway 15 onto Westbound West Division Street. A second car driven by Heather Lynette […]

A man was taken to Stearns County Jail Wednesday morning for fleeing from police in a snowmobile and allegedly riding drunk.   Stearns County sheriff’s deputies received a report of a possible drunk driver on a snowmobile around 12:30 AM this morning in St. Stephen. The driver, 25-year-old Joseph Kiley of Bowlus, refused to stop for deputies and […]

An unlocked door led to a burglary attempt in St. Cloud. The incident took place in the 200 block of 15th Ave South in St. Cloud. The Police Department received a call around Midnight, with a report of a burglary in progress. The suspect was heard upstairs in the victim’s house. The suspect was not […]

When it’s all said and done, this winter storm is expected to produce about 3-5 inches of snow in central Minnesota. SCSU Meteorology Professor Bob Weisman says St. Cloud received just over two inches overnight, and another two or so inches are expected throughout the rest of the day. The snow will likely stop falling […]

Two men were arrested when the Benton County Sheriff’s Office responded to an alarm at a vacant house in Foley. When deputies arrived at the scene they found tracks leading to a snowmobile and sled parked in the driveway. Police found 40-year old Gerald Applegate of Princeton, and 43-year old Shane Sjodin of Oak Grove. […]

The Mahnomen County Sheriff’s Office says a 31-year-old man from Sartell was killed after two snowmobiles collided on a frozen lake. The sheriff’s news release says Christopher Ebensteiner was at the front of a group of snowmobilers crossing South Twin Lake in eastern Mahnomen County just before 6 p.m. Saturday. Ebensteiner struck a snow ridge […]

The number of women elected to local government posts in Minnesota has leveled off at far less than even since reaching an all-time high in 2002. The years between 1990 and 2002 were the peak years for female mayors and city council members in Minnesota. In that 12-year period, the number of female mayors went […]