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29-Jul-2026

Red Lake Man Sentenced For Domestic Assault

A Red Lake man has been sentenced in district court for “domestic assault by a habitual offender.” According to the US Attorney’s Office, 46-year-old Allen Robert Cloud was sentenced on Thursday, July 23 after pleading guilty in December, 2025 to “one count of domestic assault resulting in substantial bodily harm.” The sentencing comes from an incident on July 11, 2025 that happened on the Red Lake Nation reservation when Cloud reportedly sought out the victim, his longtime partner, at a neighbor’s house where she was hiding from him. Upon finding her, Cloud violently assaulted her and forced her to leave the neighbor’s house, and prevented her from escaping. After Cloud fell asleep, the victim reportedly attempted to flee when Cloud chased her down and hit her on the head with a piece of concrete. The victim was airlifted to a hospital due to her injuries. Cloud was sentenced to 41 months imprisonment. Prior to the July, 2025 assault, Cloud had at least five Tribal Court convictions for criminal domestic violence and stalking involving domestic assaults committed between 2010 and 2023.

29-Jul-2026

Teen Dies In Motorcycle Crash

A St. Cloud teenage boy died in a crash in Benton County on Monday evening. The Benton County Sheriff's Office says they received a report around 8:30 p.m. about a motorcycle and a tractor crash at the intersection of 15th Avenue NE and 160th Street NE in Langola Township. First responders arrived to find the 17-year-old boy with serious injuries and began life-saving measures. Investigators determined the motorcycle and tractor were both going north on 15th Avenue. The boy attempted to pass the tractor being driven by 64-year-old Allen VanNurden of Rice when VanNurden tried to turn left onto 160th Street, and the boy collided with the silage wagon VanNurden was towing. The Sheriff's Office says both the tractor and silage wagon had slow-moving vehicle signs affixed to them, and the 17-year-old boy was not wearing a helmet. Despite the life-saving efforts, the teenager was pronounced dead at the scene.  VanNurden was not hurt in the crash, and the investigation is ongoing.

28-Jul-2026

Man Faces Child Solicitation Charges And Drug Charges

A Fergus Falls man is facing multiple felony child solicitation and drug charges after an online sting led police to his home. Police were called just before 9:30 a.m. July 24 to the 100 block of West Lincoln Avenue after a member of a citizen group that poses online as minors reported disturbing messages. The group said 41-year-old Braxton Monte Anderson believed he was talking to a 14-year-old girl, sent sexually explicit images and messages, and talked about meeting her. Documents say Anderson met the decoy through a dating app and continued the conversations even after being told the girl was 14. According to documents, the group confronted Anderson outside his residence, then called police. After reviewing evidence, officers interviewed Anderson, who admitted that he had been communicating with someone he believed was 14 and that the messages were sexual. Documents say police searched Anderson’s apartment and seized electronic devices, along with about 7.5 grams of suspected methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. Documents also say two children under 15 were in the home located a block from a city splash park and city park. Anderson is charged with three felony counts of electronic solicitation of a child and two felony drug-related counts: third-degree controlled substance crime, possession of methamphetamine in a park zone, and storing methamphetamine paraphernalia in a residence with a child.

28-Jul-2026

New Minnesota Deer Hunting Regulations

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resource (DNR) is introducing new regulations when it comes to deer hunting ahead of the upcoming season.  Arguably the biggest change for the coming year involves the monitoring of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal condition to deer that has been spreading in recent years, with the state now moving to a four-year statewide rotational surveillance plan.  The entirety of Minnesota is now divided into four quadrants, Hunters in each quadrant will be required to have all deer harvested during the firearms opening weekend that are older than one-year-old tested for CWD depending on the year. Hunters in southwest and parts of west-central Minnesota are required to do so this year. Hunters will have a variety of ways to get their deer tested, including at staffed or self-service sampling stations, ordering free mail-in sampling kits before opening weekend, or visiting taxidermists participating in the partner sampling program. Another new regulation involves changes to carcass disposal, as hunters will now be allowed to move deer carcasses harvested within a CWD management zone to outside of it. However, hunters are still required to dispose of the carcasses with their trash hauler, at a local landfill, or with a meat processor. In the past, hunters had to quarter their deer to take meat out of the zone or wait for a “not-detected” test result to take the whole deer out.  As a result, the DNR dumpster program will be going away this fall. Minnesota’s 2026 firearms deer hunting season opens on November 7.