NEWS
--The Morrison County Sheriff’s Office wants to inform residents of a new scam that is being reported. According to Sheriff Shawn Larsen, the most recent cases are targeting small businesses in the county. According to recent complaints, a male party with a foreign accent will call businesses from the phone number (410) 384-8272. He will ask for prices to purchase large amounts of product and ask if they take credit card payments over the phone. If so, the businesses ship out the product after the payment goes through, later to find out that the credit card number was stolen. The business is then out the money and the product. Sheriff Larsen reminds local businesses to use caution and if you do business over the phone, make sure the transaction is legitimate. In these particular cases, the business owner looked into the request and discovered that the phone number listed was used in multiple reported scams.
--A Cohasset woman died Saturday when the ATV she was riding fell through the ice on a rural Itasca County lake. The body of Bernice Elaine Kane of Cohasset was recovered from the waters of Rice Lake, near Cohasset, on Sunday afternoon. Kane is believed to have died from drowning. The Sheriff's Office responded at about 5:45pm Saturday to a report of an ATV falling through the ice. Deputies discovered that two people had been on the ATV. Michael Anthony Gibbons of Duluth was able to get out of the water on his own and call for help after the ATV broke through the ice. The incident is under investigation by the Itasca County Sheriff's Office and Itasca County Medical Examiner's Office.
--Authorities on Monday identified the woman who drowned after an ATV she was riding went through the ice late Friday night on Grace Lake. Authorities say 23-year old Lauren Lund of Bemidji died at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center after she was pulled from the water by rescue personnel. Lund and 27-year old Ethan Oftedahl of rural Bemidji, were on the ATV on the northeast Hubbard County lake. Officials say Oftedahl was able to get out of the water and call 911 from a nearby residence. Rescue personnel used a hovercraft to find Lund. Oftedahl also was taken to Sanford Bemidji, where he was treated for hypothermia.
--A Foley woman was hurt in a two-car crash in Benton County on Sunday. 33-year old Amanda Elizabeth Strang was taken to St. Cloud Hospital with non life threatening injuries after a crash on 25th Avenue at Minnesota Highway 23. According to the Minnesota State Patrol report, 52-year old Gary Wayne Slaamod of Sauk Rapids was driving on 25th Avenue when he failed to check for cross traffic and struck Strang's vehicle on Highway 23. The crash took place shortly before 4:30pm. Slaamod was not injured.
--Police are looking for witnesses after they arrested a man who tampered with vehicles in a Target parking lot on Sunday. Some of the vehicles were occupied. 39-year old Jose Carlos Lopez was arrested on misdemeanor charges of tampering with a motor vehicle. The incident occurred at the Target parking lot at 4201 West Division Street. Witnesses said the man tried to pull the door handles of several vehicles, including two that were occupied and trying to back out of parking stalls. Officers responded at around 4:00pm and were told the man also attempted to take a purse from a woman walking in the area. The woman with the purse, as well as drivers of vehicles he tried to enter, had left the area before officers arrived. The St. Cloud Police Department is looking for the woman with the purse as well as the drivers of those vehicles. Any witnesses or those with information on the incidents can contact St. Cloud police.
--Two people were hurt, including a three-year-old boy, in a crash in Stearns County. The Minnesota State Patrol says the crash happened around 10am Saturday at the intersection of Highway 55 and Mill Street in Paynesville. Authorities say an SUV driven by 25-year-old Emily Liestman of Paynesville was going south on Mill Street when she was struck by a car that allegedly failed to yield at a stop sign. The car was driven by 19-year-old Eli Ahrens from Madelia. Liestman and her passenger, 3-year-old Colton Liestman of Paynesville, were taken to Paynesville Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Ahrens was not hurt.
--Four people are hurt, including one person with life-threatening injuries, in a head-on crash near Becker. The Minnesota State Patrol says the crash happened just after midnight Sunday on Highway 10 near 137th Street Southeast just east of Becker. Authorities say a car driven by 19-year old Tyler Harmon of Becker, was going west on Highway 10 when the car went off the road, through the center median and struck an SUV driven by 54-year old Natalie Chairez of Vadnais Heights, head on. Chairez was airlifted to North Memorial with life-threatening injuries. Her passenger, 23-year old Samantha Chairez of Vadnais Heights was taken to North Memorial with non-life threatening injuries. Harmon and his passenger, 18-year old Matthew Wilson of Clear Lake, were taken to St. Cloud Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
NATIONAL NEWS
--An Amtrak Train traveling at 80 miles per hour derailed during rush hour Monday morning between Olympia and Tacoma Washington. At least 3 people were killed. There were multiple people with injuries who were on the train and also the highway where vehicles stopped to watch the wreckage occur. The investigation into the train derailment is ongoing by transportation officials.
DEATH NOTICES
--Karen Jones, age 54 of Hinckley
--Alan Olson of Randall
WEATHER
TODAY= sunny, steady temps around 30 then fall in afternoon, windy
TONIGHT= temps fall to around 14, snow develops by early morning.
WEDNESDAY= snow likely 1-2 inches, high near 20, low near 15.
THURSDAY= snow early, then clearing and turning colder, high 19.
THURS NIGHT= clear and colder, low near 6 above.
FRIDAY= sunny and colder, high around 12, low near 9 below zero.
SPORTS
HS GBB= Holdingford at Pierz tonight at 7:30pm on FM94 KFML
NFL= Atlanta defeated Tampa Bay 24-21 last night, the Falcons improve to 9-5 and with their win and also Detroit, Dallas and Minnesota winning this weekend, the Green Bay Packers at 7-7 are officially eliminated from the playoffs this year. The Packers host the Vikings Saturday at 7:30pm on AM960 KLTF.
LOCAL= check out high school sports schedules at fallsradio.com.