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HEWITT, Minn. – An 85-year-old central Minnesota man was trampled to death by one of his cows as he was trying to tag a calf Sunday morning, April 8, according to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were dispatched at 10:32 a.m. to 26998 County Highway 75 on the east edge of Otter Tail County after a report that Delbert Horn, of rural Hewitt, had been trampled by a cow.
CASS LAKE, Minn. -- A man died Friday in Cass Lake residential fire in northern Minnesota, according to a release from the Cass County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office received a report of a structure fire at 11:14 p.m. in the area of Second Street East in Cass Lake. Officers and the Cass Lake Fire Department found the home engulfed in flames.
FARGO - Fire crews received a call just after 11 p.m. on Monday, March 19 for a fire at the Fargodome. Upon arriving to the scene, the Fargo Fire Department determined that the fire started in a dryer in the storage area of the building. A sprinkler head was activated at the time of the fire and was able to extinguish part of it by the time crews arrived to put out the rest of it. The fire is said to have caused an estimated three thousand dollars in damages.
ST. PAUL — Anglers catching walleyes on Mille Lacs Lake will have to throw them all back again this summer. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on Monday announced its summer 2018 regulations for the big central Minnesota lake that includes catch-and-release fishing all season, and no night fishing from May 14 through the rest of the year.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- National law firm Robins Kaplan announced Monday it has filed a lawsuit on behalf of South Dakota’s Oglala Sioux Tribe against the opioid industry, joining other tribes in North Dakota and South Dakota that have filed suits alleging devastating public health effects from opioids.
WALKER, Minn. -- A Bemidji man found dead at the International Eelpout Festival on Feb. 25 died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. The Cass County Sheriff’s Office released the cause of 21-year-old Sam Schooley’s death Wednesday, March 7, more than a week after Schooley’s body was found in a fish house on Leech Lake.
BEMIDJI, Minn.-- A group home employee was charged with third-degree assault Wednesday after allegedly hitting a developmentally disabled resident in the face and also fracturing his rib. Connor Michael Shea, 27, was arrested Tuesday, Feb. 27, one day after the alleged assault. He appeared in court Wednesday morning and has since been released from the Beltrami County Jail.
WILTON, Minn. -- A man was injured and a horse was killed in a Wednesday, Feb. 28, car crash in Wilton in northwest Minnesota.
GRAND FORKS -- After a week of hints, it’s official -- Metallica is coming to the region. The band’s WorldWired Tour will play the Alerus Center in Grand Forks on Sept. 8, according to a news release. It’s been almost 30 years since the band played in the city. The heavy metal rock band will also have shows in Minneapolis on Sept. 4, Sioux Falls, S.D., on Sept. 11 and Winnipeg on Sept. 13.
DETROIT LAKES, Minn.—A 47-year-old northwest Minnesota man who has been convicted of drunken driving at least six times appeared in district court Monday, Feb. 12, facing two felony charges of criminal vehicular homicide in the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian near Pine Point last Thursday. Bruce Allen Basswood, 47, of nearby Ponsford is accused of hitting and killing Joshua Charles Jones, 21, of Ponsford as he was walking on Pow Wow Highway, about a half mile east of Pine Point. Pine Point is about 25 miles northeast of Detroit Lakes in Becker County.