Kandiyohi News

Births reported Tuesday to the St. Cloud Times: PAYNESVILLE AREA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Miller, Grant and Cortney; Kandiyohi; boy; Monday, June 29, 2009.

About 25 county and law enforcement officials from Pipestone, Murray, Nobles, Rock, Redwood and Lyon Counties met June 18 in Slayton to discuss the best way to proceed with the Public Safety Answering Point consolidation study.

Courtney Voorhees will go to prison knowing she's been forgiven. Voorhees, 29, of Cottonwood, was sentenced in Lyon County District Court in Marshall on Tuesday to 41 months in prison on charges of criminal vehicular homicide and criminal vehicular injury.

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Starting in July, the state will be boarding fewer prisoners in the Kandiyohi County Jail.

A Paynesville man has appeared in court on charges of felony insurance fraud. 40-year-old Brian Paglusch is charged with felony insurance fraud for having someone steal his ATV in order for him to collect the insurance money, then getting it back and hiding it.

The night Sheila Bass heard her daughter Morgan, 17, had been killed in a crash on Minnesota Highway 23 near Cottonwood, she prayed.

WAITE PARK - Organizers of a recycling event in Waite Park on Friday collected more than 17 tons of electronic waste from 390 customers.

It was also recommended that the Chief Deputy be made HSEM Coordinator. This move would save the county approximately $30,000 yearly, according to the personnel committee.

20-year-old Rogelio Torres was sentenced in Kandiyohi District Court to 19 moths in prison for assaulting a Willmar Officer who was attempting to arrest him on a warrant.

A 38-year-old Willmar man says he wasn't trying to flee police Friday night; he says the accelerator stuck and he drove into a tree to stop the vehicle.

Back in June of last year, a Lake Lillian home was burglarized, several rooms were ransacked and many electronics and weapons were stolen.

WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 443 AM CDT SUN MAR 29 2009 .SIGNIFICANT SNOW AND STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MINNESOTA FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...AS A STORM SYSTEM EJECTS FROM THE ROCKIES ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS.

Lyon County prosecutors charged a 29-year-old Cottonwood woman with criminal vehicular homicide in a fatal crash on Minnesota 23 near Cottonwood in November.

In an effort to save money, some area beaches will do without lifeguards this summer.

Three people were killed in a head-on traffic accident Saturday morning in rural Renville County, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

The economic slump has hit the recycling market, with lower prices being paid for products like cardboard, newspaper and aluminum.

WILLMAR a ' Southern Minnesota cell phone users including those in the west central area who have Verizon Wireless and Unicel contracts will eventually become customers of other companies under Verizona TMs ...

Willmar's new downtown bus shelter could eventually serve as a community billboard.

State and local highway crews were kept busy Monday plowing roads during a storm that dropped about four inches of snow on the area.