Detroit Lakes News

Alice Louise Lerfald was born Feb. 17, 1918, on a farm in Atlanta Township of Becker County.

Weather damage is less than first feared for most growers, but there are "pockets of disaster," particularly in the south.

Connie Hart King took Monday off from work, the same as she has every May 21 for the last 12 years.

Posted at 5:36 AM on May 22, 2012 by Euan Kerr Filed under: Arts around the state , Music The Minnesota Orchestra heads west this week for a Common Chords residency in Willmar.

The sudden cold snap that interrupted Minnesota's warm spring five weeks ago doesn't appear to have been as big a disaster for the state's apple crop as first feared, but it still has left some growers hurting and worried.

Three people were injured - one severely - in a rollover accident on County Highway 4 near Lake Lizzie around 8:15 p.m. Saturday.

Dorothy Blom, died Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at her home under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley.

Not often taken literally, it sure has meaning if you're driving south into the Detroit Lakes district this summer.

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A mock crash staged near a high school as part of a pre-prom demonstration turned real after a unmanned Detroit Lakes fire engine accelerated down a street and into a car, injuring an EMS worker, a state trooper and two students Friday morning.

Detroit Lakes High School students - who had gathered to watch a pre-prom auto accident drill Friday morning - were shocked to see an unmanned fire truck slowly accelerate down the street and plow into two cars that were staged for the mock crash, injuring several people.

Trinity Lutheran Church in Fergus Falls will host its annual LWML ladies spring brunch Saturday, starting with a craft sale at 9 a.m., followed by brunch at 10 a.m. Guest speaker Vicki Marthaler, a chaplain of a senior complex in Detroit Lakes, will begin her program at 10:30 a.m. Her talk will focus on the 23rd Psalm where she will lead ... (more)