Atwater News

Jury selection is scheduled to begin this morning in the sexual misconduct trial of Paul Reed Schmidt, 35, of Atwater.

An elderly woman was critically injured Thursday when the car in which she was riding crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with a truck near Gibbon, the Minnesota State Patrol said.

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway company is proposing to increase the maximum speed level for trains traveling through Atwater, Grove City and Kandiyohi, but only two of the affected government bodies ...

An Atwater teen was sentenced Monday to five years of probation, a $500 fine and 190 days in jail on a felony theft charge for stealing auto parts from a Sunburg business and then selling the metal for scrap.

When polls open today, children in the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City School District may be leading their parents to the ballot boxes.

Meeker County Sheriffa s Office and the Atwater Police Department recovered a stock of stolen electronics at a rural Cosmos residence Thursday.

LITCHFIELD a ' Charges are pending against three men, including an 18-year-old from Atwater, stemming from a series of recent burglaries in Grove City and Atwater.

Jennifer Helmuth and Michael Gilhoi, both of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, are engaged to be married December 6 at Calvary Lutheran Church in Willmar, Minnesota.

A Celebration of Life Service for Leroy D. Hranicka, 86, of Trimont, Minn., will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, October 17, 2008, at the United Methodist Church in Trimont, Minn., with Pastor Joel Xavier ...

Oct. 3--ATWATER -- A $90,000 matching grant that would help fund renovations at the historic Hotel Atwater was given preliminary approval Thursday by the Minnesota Historical Society.

The arched brick entrance and granite pillars of the Hotel Atwater casts a historic shadow of the building's former grandeur on Atwater's Atlantic Avenue.

An 18-year-old Atwater girl has pleaded guilty to a second-degree felony assault charge for cutting another student at New London-Spicer High School with a razor blade.

A tornado warning is in effective for southern Kandiyohi, southeastern Swift and eastern Chippewa counties, the National Weather Service announced.

Kevin and Karla Partch of Sartell announce the engagement of their daughter, Risa, to Kent Anderson, son of Augusto and Marge Anderson of Atwater.

ATWATER - A Balaton man was in critical condition today at St. Cloud Hospital after a four-vehicle pileup.

“In these kinds of cases, it really comes down to what witnesses say.”

A federal lawsuit from last year's immigration raid in Willmar was whittled down Wednesday when a judge dismissed counts against the U.S. government and authorities acting in their government roles. via KAAL-TV Austin