Slayton News

SLAYTON - In the Wetterling living room on the night of Oct. 22, 1989, 11-year-old Aaron Larson kept waiting for Jacob Wetterling to come home.

They're out there, area residents say. But it's hard to tell just how many coyotes there are in southwest Minnesota, or if their numbers are increasing.

The Museum of Broadcasting has announced long-time local radio presence and family business owner, Wally Christensen, as a 2009 Hall of Fame Inductee.

Running for Canby-Minneota-Lincoln HI are Chelsea Deslauriers and Morgan Merritt .

The First National Bank of Fulda has made application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to purchase the United Prairie Bank branches in Springfield and Slayton from the United Prairie Banks System.

Dick Randall and Dorothy Metz were married on September 30, 1959, at St. Ann's Catholic Church in Slayton MN.

Diane Sherwood waits tables at night at the Magnolia Steak House in Luverne, but the rest of the time she can be found at her home office trying to raise upwards of $30 million for a state-of-the-art medical facility that will specialize in treating people, like 9-11 rescue workers, who suffer from chemical and toxin exposure.

The seventh annual Remember Rally motorcycle benefit run will be held Saturday, Sept.

When people think 4-H and county fair, they think livestock, but some kids competing at the Murray County Fair don't have any livestock, just projects.

Lola Rambosky was in 4-H back in the 1940s. These days, she is seeing the third generation of her family compete at the Murray County Fair.

It's not a tough job to sample all those apple pies, what's tough is to pick a winner.

Skeptical rural voters quizzed two Minnesota congressmen Tuesday over their support of climate change legislation.

In the VFW All-Star baseball game at Legion Field in Marshall Thursday night, it was the North team that captured a 16-6 victory.

The recession gripping the country might contain a local silver lining. Even though this year's cool summer doesn't typify poolside weather, that's exactly where many residents can be found: at the Pipestone Aquatic Center.

URBANA – A Minnesota motorcyclist died Thursday night from injuries he sustained in a crash near Arcola last weekend.

It was World War II veteran Norman Fox's dying wish that he be buried in Soldier's Rest in New Ulm, a town he held an abiding love for though he moved away 36 years ago.

The third annual Murray County Classic Draft Horse Show will be held July 11 and 12 at the Murray County Fairgrounds in Slayton.

Norman Fox was born on February 5, 1927 in Canby, Minnesota, to Edward and Anna Peterson Fox.

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.

Charges were filed Monday against an Iona man who allegedly broke into a house in the middle of the night and entered the bedroom of a 17-year-old girl while she was sleeping.