accidents

A Bertha girl was injured after turning in front of a vehicle driven by a Frazee woman on Highway 71 in Wadena on Friday. According to the State Patrol, Caitlyn McKnight, 16, of Bertha suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the crash. She was transported to the hospital...

BEMIDJI -- A 32-year-old pedestrian died when he was hit by a vehicle just before 8 p.m. Wednesday on a road east of Bemidji. The man, who has not yet been identified pending notification to relatives, was walking south along the 16000 block of Roosevelt Road SE when, according...

A semi tractor-trailer rig driven by a Detroit Lakes man backed into a State Patrol squad car this morning in Otter Tail County. No one was hurt in the accident, according to the State Patrol. David Nohner, 48, of Onamia was the driver of the semi. The trooper was Brian T. Gibbs,...

OTTER TAIL COUNTY, Minn. – One man was arrested after driving into Otter Tail Lake, Minn., on Saturday night. According to police, around 9 p.m. Saturday a man drove into open water on Otter Tail Lake, about 20 miles north and east of Fergus Falls, Minn. The man and a passenger...

BRAINERD, Minn. – A Barnesville man was injured in a head-on crash here Thursday morning. Minnesota State Patrol officials said Vaughn C. Gentry, 39, was headed north on County Road 3 near Brainerd at around 8:20 a.m. when he lost control of his Dodge Ram, crossed the line, and...

BEMIDJI, Minn. – A Menagha, Minn., man is hospitalized after he lost control of his pickup truck and hit a bridge guardrail in Bemidji Wednesday morning. Minnesota State Patrol Lt. Tiffani Nielson said Joshua E. Nevala, 20, of Menagha, was headed east on Highway 2 when he lost...

Four people received non-life threatening injuries in a head-on collision that was reported by the Minnesota State Patrol at 9:24 a.m. Friday. A 2005 Chevy Venture was travelling westbound on Highway 34 when the driver, Troy G. Hovde, 46, of Moorhead, lost control while passing...

A motorist died Monday afternoon after fleeing a traffic stop, leading officers on an 11-mile chase, then smashing head-on into an unoccupied squad car at the junction of Highway 59 and Interstate 94 near Fergus Falls. The name, age, gender and city of residence of the motorist...

MAIDEN ROCK, Wis. - A Red Wing, Minn., youth died over the weekend of a gunshot wound that occurred while hunting in Maiden Rock in northwest Wisconsin. The incident is under investigation, according to authorities in Pierce County, Wis. Logan Hinrichs attended eighth grade...

MAHNOMEN, Minn. – A local man was killed early Sunday morning when a train collided with his car, according to the Mahnomen County Sheriff's Department. Timothy Goodman, 45, was crossing the Canadian Pacific railroad tracks at 140th Street just south of town around 3:30 a.m....

WADENA, Minn. -- One man was killed and another seriously injured when the car they were in crossed over the center line and struck a semi head-on near here early Saturday morning. Gabriel Kemp, 23, of Bluffton was killed. He was the passenger in car driven by 22-year-old Tyler...

MOORHEAD – A driver was ejected from an SUV and pinned underneath the vehicle during a rollover crash south of here this morning, Clay County Sheriff Bill Bergquist said. The driver, a 35-year-old Fargo man, was headed south on County Highway 52, near 60th Avenue, about 7:45...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. – A Fergus Falls, Minn., man and his passenger were injured in a rollover crash near here early this morning. Minnesota State Patrol officials said Charles F. Bangs, 52, Fergus Falls, was heading east on I-94 west of County Road 40 in a Buick Lucerne at 6:53...