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06-Aug-2026

11 Year Old Boy Arrested In Stabbing Incident

An eleven-year-old boy is in custody after a stabbing in St. Cloud Tuesday afternoon. The St. Cloud Police Department says they responded to a call around 5:00 p.m. for a stabbing in the 900 block of Cooper Avenue South. Once on the scene, officers found that an eighteen-year-old St. Cloud man had been stabbed multiple times while in the vestibule of a local business.  The victim and other customers were able to subdue the suspect until police arrived. The victim was taken to the St. Cloud Hospital with significant but non-life-threatening injuries. The Police Department says they identified the suspect as an eleven-year-old St. Cloud boy and took him into custody. Officers located the knife used in the stabbing as well. The suspect was not hurt but taken to the St. Cloud Hospital for evaluation.  Police executed a search warrant at a St. Cloud address in connection with the suspect, and authorities say the victim and suspect were not known to each other before the stabbing. The case is still under investigation.

06-Aug-2026

Drug Bust

Two people have been arrested after a traffic stop in Kandiyohi County. At about 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, agents of the CEE-VI Drug and Gang Task Force, along with the Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office, stopped a vehicle near the intersection of Highway 7 and Highway 71. Agents recognized that the passenger of the vehicle had an outstanding felony warrant in Hennepin County. The driver, a 29-year-old woman, and the passenger, a 31-year-old man, both from Minneapolis, were arrested on Controlled Substance charges. Agents allegedly found 466 grams of suspected methamphetamine and six grams of suspected powdered fentanyl, both inside the vehicle and on the two people arrested. There was also a seven-year-old boy in the vehicle. He was placed with Kandiyohi County Family Services.

 

 

06-Aug-2026

UTV Crash

Two juveniles were injured Wednesday afternoon in a utility task vehicle crash in rural Polk County. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said deputies received a cellphone crash detection alert at about 3:25 p.m. near the intersection of 230th Street Southwest and 370th Avenue Southwest, near Fisher. Deputies arrived to find a UTV on its roof with the juveniles outside the vehicle. According to the sheriff’s office the two were taken to a hospital for their injuries. Their conditions were not released. No further information is being released, and the crash remains under investigation.

06-Aug-2026

Wild Fires

Nearly a month after a lightning strikes sparked wildfires in northern Minnesota, officials said Wednesday that conditions have started to ease and they are starting to focus efforts towards recovery. Gov. Tim Walz and other public safety officials said there is no need to extend the peacetime emergency that is set to expire Tuesday as the flames that have razed 65,000 acres of forest in Minnesota are no longer spreading. In the past few weeks, timely rain helped to dampen the wildfires, though officials say there's still a lot of hot spots and residual heat within the Superior National Forest.  Northern Minnesota residents will still need to heed local warnings as conditions could change, officials say. There will likely be no rain over the next week, they added. bLast week, dozens of entry points in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness reopened after wildfires in northern Minnesota forced them to close for more than two weeks. As of Tuesday, the largest fire — dubbed Bear Trap — was 40% contained and had burned nearly 38,000 acres. At the peak, there were 2,400 personnel working to suppress the wildfires. Elevated burning restrictions remain in place in northeastern Minnesota, according to the DNR. Fire danger across the state is mostly low to moderate as of Wednesday, but a patch of central Minnesota is in the high category.

05-Aug-2026

Two Vehicle Crash

There was a two-vehicle crash in Stearns County. The Minnesota State Patrol says the incident happened on Tuesday at about 5:30 p.m. near Melrose.  A pickup was traveling south on Highway 4 while a van was crossing the highway on County Road 186 when the two vehicles collided in the intersection. The driver of the pickup, 40-year-old Beth Schlangen of Paynesville, was taken to Melrose Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.  The driver of the van, 53-year-old Tina Haugen of Melrose, suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

05-Aug-2026

Woman Found Dead At Park

A Baudette woman was found dead at a Lake of the Woods County park Friday after her vehicle was reported abandoned, according to the Lake of the Woods County Sheriff’s Office. At approximately 12:18 p.m. Friday, July 31, the Lake of the Woods County Sheriff’s Office received a report of an abandoned vehicle at Clementson Rapids Park. Baudette Fire and Rescue and Lake of the Woods Ambulance were called to assist in search efforts. At approximately 2:42 p.m., members of Baudette Fire and Rescue located the vehicle’s registered owner, Blossom Chwialkowski, 64, of Baudette, deceased. The incident remains under investigation pending a full autopsy. The Lake of the Woods County Sheriff’s Office is being assisted by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.