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Investigators have made an arrest in connection to the death of a Naytahwaush, Minn., man in an apparent hit and run Sunday, according to Clearwater County Sheriff's Office. Elmer William Thompson, 43, was arrested without a struggle at about 3:30 p.m.
More than 150 people gathered in this small town Monday for a tearful vigil for the seriously injured driver of a public school bus that was involved in a crash with four semis in thick fog Friday. The 34 fourth-graders in the bus escaped safely, but it took almost an hour for first responders to pull the driver, Cathryn Jostad, from the wreckage.
It was dark as Ann Lilleoien drove home Tuesday night from Devils Lake when she thought she saw a deer in the ditch. "I was going 65, but I slowed to 55," she said. "When I got closer, I could see it was a cougar." As she drove along Ramsey County Road 8 about four miles west of Lawton, the animal bounded from the ditch onto the road. "It was running right next to my pickup, and it was going faster than me," she said.
Jason Duane Lampl, 24, has been sentenced in Becker County District Court for felony second-degree burglary. According to court records, in June of 2014 he burglarized a cabin on South Dinner Lake Loop, Park Rapids. The well pump and tank were removed from inside the cabin, and he also took 10 sheets of drywall, a quantity of lumber, and some tools and household items. He was charged after DNA on a cigarette butt left at the site was traced to him via a state database.
St. CLOUD — The former mayor of Richmond in central Minnesota is accused of stealing money from the amateur baseball team that he used to manage. Scott Kron, 43, is charged in Stearns County District Court with three felonies and one gross misdemeanor.
GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. -- A convicted sex offender and drug smuggler from Canada went to extreme measures to illegally cross the Ontario-Minnesota border near Grand Portage last month, federal authorities said.
With a notarized eviction notice on his front door, Mike Marcell Jr. walked the 20 yards to his landlord’s home on the morning of Sept. 4 to tell him he needed more than 14 days to move. Marcell told Gerald Duane Skolte, 63, who owned the property near Perham where Marcell and his fiance's trailer home sat, that he was not going to leave until he had talked to the sheriff.
Cass County Sheriff's corporal who pulled over a woman for speeding was dragged for 25 feet as the woman drunkenly tried to drive away, charges filed Friday in Cass County District Court said. Nicolle Jean Koehler, 32, was charged with felony reckless endangerment and four misdemeanors: fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer, preventing arrest or discharge of other duties, DUI, and refusing to submit to chemical testing. Koehler was speeding in Mapleton when Cpl. Keenan Zundel pulled her over, according to Zundel's report of the incident.
A North Dakota man who allegedly kept his brother's body in his camper trailer for more than five months has been charged with his murder. Aaron Ray Larson, 40, of Powers Lake was arrested Thursday in Bismarck and could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the felony offense. The body of Aaron Larson's brother, Terry Larson, was discovered Monday in a camper in Powers Lake, where Aaron Larson
GREGORY, S.D. — A former police chief was arrested Wednesday morning on one count of first-degree murder for the 2009 death of his then-fiancee because of “additional evidence.” Russell Bertram, 63, of Sioux Falls, was indicted Tuesday by a Gregory County grand jury on suspicion that he intentionally shot Leonila Stickney, of Bridgewater, then age 26, on Oct.