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07-Nov-2025

Drowning

A 69-year-old Minnesota man drowned after his boat capsized in Lake of the Woods waters, authorities said. The Lake of the Woods Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call at 3:41 p.m. Oct. 18 for a capsized boat. The Sheriff’s Office says Brian Herridge and Lorie Bryngelson of Colorado were pulled from the water by people in a different boat. Paramedics rushed both to Lakewood Health Center in Baudette, where life-saving measures were attempted, but Herridge was later pronounced dead. Bryngelson was treated for exposure; authorities did not provide a report on her current condition. At the time of the incident, the water temperature was 48 degrees. On November 5, the 26-foot aluminum flat-bottom jet boat was recovered 1.5 miles outside the Gap on Lake of the Woods. TowBoatUS, divers, and sheriff’s deputies recovered the boat. The incident remains under investigation. Authorities are treating the death as an accidental drowning pending full autopsy results.

07-Nov-2025

Three Canidates To Fill 7th Judical District In Todd County

The Minnesota Commission on Judicial Selection has forwarded three candidates to the governor to fill an upcoming vacancy in the 7th Judicial District. The commission is recommending Luke Godzala, who is a senior attorney in the Civil Division of the Stearns County Attorney's Office. He was previously an assistant city attorney in St. Cloud. Heidi Hovis has been recommended for consideration. Hovis is an assistant public defender in the Seventh Judicial District and an adjunct professor in the paralegal program at North Hennepin Community College.Franz Vancura is the third candidate up for consideration. Vancura is a partner at the law firm Quinlivan & Hughes, where he represents clients in real estate, business, probate, estate planning, and family law.The judgeship will become vacant with the retirement of Judge Daniel Benson.The seat will be chambered in Long Prairie in Todd County.

06-Nov-2025

Two Vehicle Crash With Injuries

Four people were hurt in a two-vehicle crash in St. Cloud Tuesday night. St. Cloud Police were called to the intersection of County Road 75 and Traverse Road at around 7:30 p.m. Officers arrived to find a 15-year-old boy in the front passenger seat unconscious and not breathing. Officers and St. Cloud Fire personnel provided life-saving measures before the boy was taken by ambulance to St. Cloud Hospital. He was then airlifted to the Hennepin County Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. The backseat passenger in the vehicle was pinned inside and had to be extricated. She was taken to St. Cloud Hospital by ambulance with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Police say the driver of the car, 22-year-old Anwar Kahlin, was northbound on County Road 75 and was turning left onto Traverse Road on a green light when his car was struck by a southbound car that also had a green light. Kahin was ticketed for failure to yield the right-of-way and brought to St. Cloud Hospital with minor injuries. The driver of the southbound car, 20-year-old Cooper Wente of St. Cloud, was also taken to St. Cloud Hospital with minor injuries.

29-Oct-2025

Man Shoots Himself In Leg

A 42-year-old man was hospitalized in Bemidji after suffering what authorities are calling an accidental self-inflected gunshot to his leg. Beltrami County Sheriff Jason Riggs said in a press release that the man had exited a vehicle and shot himself while attempting to unload a firearm. The shooting was reported around 11 p.m. on Monday in Sugar Bush Township, located northwest of Pennington. The driver of the vehicle began traveling to Cass Lake Indian Health Service with the victim, but law enforcement and emergency medical services intercepted the vehicle and began rendering medical care. The man was then taken by ambulance to Sanford Health in Bemidji, where his condition is unknown. The victim’s name has not been released.