Meeker County News

Three unrelated scams have been recently detected in the area - the unauthorized takeover of a local business owner's email, a scam that involves real-looking checks sent to residents, who are being asked to act as "mystery shoppers," and a Facebook scam that attempts to obtain users' passwords.

Meeker County's former practice of strip-searching and sometimes photographing private body parts of all newly arrested people as they were booked into jail will cost the Minnesota Counties Insurance Trust $1.75 million.

Investigators says a man may have been listening to music on his headphones before he was struck and killed by a train in Litchfield.

A 35-year-old Willmar man made his first appearance Monday on a felony charge for allegedly committing a sex act with a vulnerable adult male he met while driving a Kandiyohi Area Transit bus.

Luck might be an asset on top of all the numerous skills required for fire department training these days, but firefighter Steve Dietel of Lester Prairie will take it.

To hear the buzz, the new SweeTango that went on a sale this week at select grocery stores could eventually dethrone Honeycrisp as the "must have" apple.

One person died when a van crashed into a parked trailer on a highway in Meeker County, the Minnesota State Patrol said.

A 71-year-old Grove City, Minn., man died Thursday in a crash with a pickup and a trailer parked on the side of Hwy.

On Monday, August 24, the Wadena County Sheriffa s Department received a teletype from Morrison County reporting a burglary at a golf course in that county that resulted in the arrest of two individuals by the Morrison County Sheriffa s DepartA ment.

A commercial turkey flock in central Minnesota's Meeker County has been quarantined after routine testing discovered a strain of bird flu.

With the confirmation last week that a turkey flock in Minnesota has the H7N9 Avian Flu, Columbia has stepped up and suspended imports of poultry and poultry products produced in Minnesota.

A turkey flock in south central Minnesota has been tested positive for the H7N9 strain of avian influenza.

Four candidates for the Minnesota governora s seat visited the Meeker County Fair last week to explain their plans for reforming health care and taxes, growing jobs and reducing governmenta s role.

A commercial turkey flock in Meeker County is under quarantine after routine testing discovered a strain of the avian flu virus, the state Board of Animal Health announced Wednesday.

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The Hennepin County Medical Examiner has identified some of the victims who were killed in a head-on crash in Independence Tuesday.

Authorities still don't know the cause of a crash near Independence Tuesday morning that killed two adults and two children, but they released some details about the case today.

Much of what U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said about health-care reform to a county government group's meeting here Monday played well with Amy Wilde, a commissioner for a county in central Minnesota.

The wild parsnip population "exploded pretty good this year," Wright County Urban Specialist Brian Sanoski said, which could be dangerous for people who come in contact with the harmful plant.

There's an attraction in Minnesota so offbeat, none other than "Weird" Al Yankovic penned a song in its praise.