Swift County News

Last update: September 4, 2009 - 1:23 PM The Very Timely Huntdown Name: Jerry Koosman Claim to Fame, Minnesota: pitched for the Twins from 1979, when he won 20 games, through the middle of 1981, when he was traded to the White Sox for Randy Johnson .

Cooler, drier air swept across western Minnesota on Wednesday which was a welcomed relief to the many residents of Swift and Kandiyohi counties still cleaning up the mess left behind by Tuesday's tornadoes.

A tornado touched down in the west-central Minnesota town of Spicer late Tuesday afternoon, causing damage at a shopping mall, while another tornado also went through the small town of Swift Falls, where it destroyed a couple of turkey barns.

A 16-year-old boy is dead after a tragic motorcycle accident Sunday night. According to a press release, Swift County Sheriff's received a 911 phone call of a motorcycle accident.

Site of Swift Falls fire nearly clean, to become a park SWIFT FALLS, Minn. After years of work, a hazardous materials site in Swift Falls is nearly cleaned up, and officials are turning the three-acre site into a park along the Chippewa River.

Just as time and new grass can erase the signs of death on a battlefield, the same is happening in Swift Falls where a once hazardous site is becoming a park.

A highway project begins June 1 near Kerkhoven that will detour traffic for about a month.

Benson Public Schools will trim $154,000 from the budget for the 2009-10 school year without laying off an employee.

BENSON a ' Cody Lee Friese, 18, of Willmar, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months and one day in prison, which was stayed, three years of probation and 60 days in the Swift County Jail for his role in vandalizing the KMS Elementary School in Murdock last summer.