Stearns County News

Felony sentencings for September 2009 as reported by Stearns County Jon Harlin Willard, 30, Miltona; third-degree burglary, Jan.

Authorities in Stearns County say a 14-year-old boy has been shot in the leg while hunting with a group.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 6:59 pm US/Central Reporting Maya Nishikawa COLLEGEVILLE, Minn.

The man accused of kidnapping his estranged wife and trying to kill her in Fair Haven Township more than a year ago waived his right to a jury trial Thursday and will let a Stearns County judge decide his fate.

A reminder that winter is coming starts next week with Winter Hazard Awareness Week.

Minnesota health officials are reporting three more deaths from swine flu and another death from a flu-like illness that wasn't confirmed as H1N1.

It's been nearly seven years since St. John's University student Josh Guimond disappeared after leaving a small card party about midnight.

I was almost killed just a few minutes before I wrote this! I live off Stearns County Road 1 near Minnesota Highway 15, where County Road 120 is being constructed to as part of a new retail development.

Felony sentencings for September 2009 as reported by Stearns County Christopher Michael Christen, 21, St.

Despite several warnings from local law enforcement, 69 year-old Richard Yarke of Sauk Centre was escorted from his farm by Stearns County Sheriff's Deputies yesterday.

With cattle forced to stand, eat, and sleep in several feet of liquid waste, conditions on 69 year old richard yarke's farm had deteriorated to dangerous and unsanitary.

Two people were arrested Monday after police found $60,000 worth of marijuana in a home in St.

Stearns County Sheriff's deputies seized 47 dairy cows this morning from a farm in Getty Township, east of Sauk Centre.

Members of Stearns County Shooting Sports 4-H Club placed third as a team in senior trap at the 2009 Minnesota 4-H Shooting Sports & Wildlife Invitational.

A St. Cloud health care provider has opened a flu center to manage a surge in illnesses that also is noticeable in area schools.

Charlene Akers had a wake-up call last year. Akers was the director at Scurry County Museum in Snyder, Texas, when she visited a museum in Michigan.

SPRING HILL - So much for cell phones and 911. There are still spots in rural Minnesota where people call the nearest cafe for help when a farmer's life is on the line.

A central Minnesota man is doing OK after being rescued from a corn bin. Stearns County sheriff's deputies were called Tuesday to a farm near Spring Hill by a man who said his 39-year-old son, Steven Pung, had climbed into the bin on the family's farm.

PAYNESVILLE - A 39-year-old rural Spring Hill man was pulled from a corn bin Tuesday by deputies and Elrosa Rescue Squad members at a farm at 35535 Stearns County Road 14.

Peter Robert Stibal was charged today with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and four counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct.