Barnesville News

Though work on the CapX 2020 power line will not reach Fergus Falls until 2013, the city council continues to press project leaders to build the line as close to Interstate Highway 94 as possible to avoid interfering with local landowners' properties.

MOORHEAD, Minn. - A Clay County woman who blamed her ex-lover for setting a series of fires at her farm has been convicted of arson.

A Clay County woman who blamed her ex-lover for setting a series of fires at her farm has been convicted of arson.

Jeffrey A. Lueck, age 45, of Barnesville, Minnesota died Tuesday, May 8, 2012 due to injuries from a car/pedestrian accident north of Barnesville.

Was it revenge by an ex-lover or arson by a Clay County woman that caused a series of fires that burned down her house and barn? Prosecutors say Tara Andvik set the fires on her rural Barnesville property last fall and blamed a former co-worker with whom she had an affair.

A man was hit and killed after stepping in front of a truck on a Northwestern Minnesota highway, and officials believe it was a suicide.