The McLeod County Board approved purchases on Feb. 21 totaling about $548,000 related to the Sheriff’s Office dispatch center and record-keeping upgrades.
Spring truck weight restrictions on state highways will begin March 5 for Minnesota's southeast and Twin Cities Metro area frost zones, and March 6 for the south frost zone. Winter load increases and overweight permits remain in place for the state's central, north-central and north frost zones. The Minnesota Department of Transportation limits truck weights to prevent damage to roads weakened during the spring thaw. Spring load restriction...
FEB. 26: At 9:46 a.m, employees at SuperAmerica, 1210 State Highway 7 W., reported that the driver of a black sport utility vehicle, possibly a Mercury, had left without paying for fuel worth $64.75.
FEB. 24: At 9:34 a.m., John G. Shull of Monticello was southbound on State Highway 15 in a 2000 Chevrolet Malibu when he allegedly failed to obey a red light at the South Grade Road intersection and collided with an eastbound 2003 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Mariah Bates of Hutchinson, who was eastbound on South Grade. Both vehicles has severe damage. Shull was ticketed for allegedly failing to obey a traffic signal.
Preliminary figures from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety State Fire Marshal Division how the number of fire deaths in Minnesota increased 31 percent, from 39 to 51, in 2011. The state’s all-time low fire-death figure was 35 in 2009; the high was 134 in 1976. The 2011 number is an anomaly in a downward trend fairly consistent since the 1980s. State Fire Marshal Jerry Rosendahl called 2011 notable in that six fires accounted for 17 f...