Benson News

A vehicle driven by a teen male struck a power pole in Rochester Monday morning, leaving the driver with minor injuries and knocking out power to 1,700 customers.

Paul apartment on Monday, May 18, 2009. Van Thomme hopes for a career in crinimal law.

At a party to celebrate their graduation from law school, Timothy Brovold and his buddies discussed job placement rates.

It's not often that you can consider vodka a health product. Then again, it's not your health Prairie Organic Vodka is likely to improve, but the planet's. "Will drinking organic spirits make you healthier? Probably not," laughs Cam Matches, the Canadian director of sales for Phillips Distilling Co., which produces Prairie Organic Vodka.

The National Weather Service has posted a winter storm warning for the Twin Cities and elsewhere in the region on Thursday.

Weather officials are predicting a major snowstorm to strike central Minnesota - including the Twin Cities metro area - come Thursday, with more than six inches of snow possible.

"Big Dan" Commerford has a big heart to match his 6 feet 4 inch height. Commerford, a Benson, Minn.

Minnesota cities are struggling in the down economy and in Benson, finances are so tight that it's decided to send back $167,000 in state transportation money.

Judge Robert R. Benson was elected as the new chief judge of the Third Judicial District on Jan.

North Mankato officials unveil the plans for the expansion of Benson Park.Community members had the opportunity to see the latest plans for the city park...Members of the planning committee say the goal is to ...

WILLMAR a ' Minnesota economic development commissioner Dan McElroy acknowledges the country is in challenging economic times, but describes the situation as a recession and not a depression.

Temperatures are on their way down even as we speak. And with another big freeze ahead comes a new warning from local utilities: "keep an eye on your pipes, or you could be looking at problems.

Swift County Sheriff Scott Mattison identifies the men as 70-year-old Dale Ehrenberg of rural Milan and 47-year-old Michael Kotzer, Sr., of rural Benson.

DANVERS a ' The drivers of two vehicles involved in a head-on collision around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday along County Road 17 about three miles south of Danvers were both killed, according to Swift County Sheriff ...

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It was a big year for big cases in Minnesota, and some of the attorneys behind those big cases are among those being honored by Minnesota Lawyer with its 10th annual "Attorneys of the Year" award.

A December-long statewide DWI enforcement effort resulted in 2,655 DWI arrests. The average alcohol-concentration of the DWI offenders was 0.14 - nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08. Preliminary arrest totals ...

Commissioner Jim Bryant called it the most controversial permit he's ever seen. Yet the Goodhue County Board on Tuesday gave Terry and Barb LaCanne permission to build a turkey litter storage structure on their ...

Law enforcement officers in Kandiyohi and Swift counties arrested 25 people for driving while impaired during December, with most of the arrests bunched in the weeks just before and after Christmas.

A United States District Court judge has ruled evidence from a 2007 drug search can be used against a Mankato man facing a federal firearms charge.