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August 14, 2024

Fischbach Easily Fends Off Challenge in 7th District Republican Primary

(Learfield News) Republican Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach easily won yesterday’s (Tues) primary election in western Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District with 65 percent of the vote to rural Kensington business owner Steve Boyd’s 35 percent. Fischbach says she’s been working for three-and-a-half years to represent the people of the 7th District and says, “We’ve been traveling the […]

August 14, 2024

Missing Man Found Dead in Grain Bin in Lamberton

(Lamberton, MN) — Redwood County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating after a missing man was found in a grain bin early Monday morning and pronounced dead at the scene . Deputies went to a Lamberton residence to help search for a missing person. En route, they were told the man had been found inside a grain […]

August 13, 2024

Primary Election Day

(Learfield News/Undated) — Today’s (Tues) primary election will likely determine which Democrat will represent the 5th Congressional District for the next two years in the U-S House and which Republican will represent the 7th District. The highly-visible rematch in Minneapolis and near suburbs is between Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar — Donald Trump’s perennial opponent as […]

August 12, 2024

Fischbach Facing Challenge from Boyd in Tuesday’s 7th District GOP primary

(Learfield News) Republican Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach has former President Donald Trump’s endorsement, but didn’t get enough votes at the 7th District Convention to win the nomination and has a challenge in Tuesday’s G-O-P primary from rural Kensington business owner Steve Boyd. Boyd says Fischbach’s connection to the district has “kind of gone by the wayside.” […]

August 12, 2024

Man Seriously Injured After Fall From Roof

A Paynesville man was seriously injured after falling from a roof in Renville County Friday morning north of Hector. The Sheriff’s Office says 35-year-old Jerman Lieser was working on a roof at a farm site in Brookfield Township when he fell off the roof and then hit his head on the scissor lift. The Sheriff’s […]

August 9, 2024

Kandiyohi Co Deputy Charged in July Crash

(Learfield News/Willmar, MN) A Kandiyohi County sheriff’s deputy is now charged with driving while intoxicated after crashing his patrol vehicle last month. The criminal complaint says 39-year-old Christopher Flatten of Atwater was seen driving erratically on the evening of July 18th before his county SUV left a county road near Atwater and rolled several times. […]

August 9, 2024

Willmar Train Derailment Closes Rail Crossing

(Learfield News/Willmar, MN) — A railroad crossing in Willmar is closed until later today (Friday) after a train derailment Wednesday night. Officials responded to the incident around 11pm, finding four train cars on their side and four others off the track yet upright. The cars contained a gas-ethanol mix, but no leakage or subsequent fire […]

August 8, 2024

Paynesville Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Sexually Assaulting 2 Girls

(Learfield News/St. Cloud, MN) — A Paynesville man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the sexual assault of two girls. Stearns County prosecutors say 42-year-old Matthew Steinemann was found guilty in March for the third-degree criminal sexual conduct of an 11-year-old and pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexually assaulting another girl between 13 […]

August 8, 2024

Name Released in Fatal Kanabec Co Crash

Authorities have released the name of the driver that died in a two-vehicle crash in Kanabec County Tuesday afternoon near Quamba. The State Patrol says the driver of a car, 59-year-old Kim Kolesar of Brook Park, died at the scene. The driver of the other vehicle, 16-year-old Jacob Pickard of Hutchinson, was taken to Mora […]

August 7, 2024

“The Wall That Heals” Coming to Hutchinson

“The Wall That Heals,” a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., will be in Hutchinson for public viewing later this month. Vietnam Veteran Dave Skoog is a Co-Host of bringing the memorial to Hutchinson: The memorial honors the more than three million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed forces […]