CHIPPEWA CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A Pelican Rapids, Minnesota semi driver is dead after a crash early Tuesday evening in Chippewa County. Minnesota State Patrol says 59-year-old Timmy Tarnowski collided with a truck at the intersection of Highway 7 and County Road 4 north of Maynard, near Granite Falls. Tarnowski died in the crash. The driver of the pickup, a…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A 19-year-old man is accused of holding his girlfriend captive in her dorm room at a university in Minnesota while he raped, beat and waterboarded her for days until she escaped. Keanu Labatte of Granite Falls was arrested Sunday at St. Catherine University, an all-female school in St. Paul. He is charged with five felony…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – A Granite Falls, Minnesota man is in the Cass County Jail, arrested around 1:30 a.m. Friday after getting into a fight with Fargo police. Officers on foot patrol saw Justin Bruce, 40, passed out in a car in the parking lot near the Empire Tavern on Broadway. As officers attempted to wake Bruce, he became uncooperative…
GRANITE FALLS, MN — Newly-released dash cam video shows how a sheriff’s deputy and a firefighter helped stop a runaway bus. It all happened Wednesday near Granite Falls, Minnesota, about an hour and a half south of Alexandria. The bus driver was having a medical emergency and the bus hit several cars on Highway 212. No one else was on…
SISSETON, SD — Authorities have identified a Minnesota woman who died in a crash on I-29 in South Dakota. 23-year-old Marrisa Mountain of Granite Falls was a passenger in a pickup that went off the interstate and rolled north of Sisseton on Saturday morning. She died at the scene. The 28-year-old South Dakota man who was driving suffered serious but…
