Lake Lillian News

Whether this is your first Thanksgiving as a single parent, or you're just tired of being stressed from working so hard to make Thanksgiving perfect, here's a few tips to make the big day a little easier: Find time to relax.

Swine barns in southern Minnesota have recently become a target for thieves who have stolen hundreds of pigs from at least two farms in Nicollet County and Kandiyohi County.

Courtland, Minn., hog farmer Tim Waibel said of the thief: "This is somebody who knows hogs and knows the area." In southern Minnesota's hog country, homes are seldom locked.

This month, 150 pigs - each one weighing more than an average grown man - disappeared from a farm building in Lafayette despite deadbolts on its doors.