Monday, April 28, 2025
Severe Thunderstorms are expected over Minnesota today. This morning showers and thunderstorms with possible locally heavy rain expected through mid-morning. After that temps will rise into the mid 70s over central and lower 80s in the southern and southeastern Minnesota with dewpoints in the 50s and 60s making for ripe conditions for strong thunderstorms this afternoon. The Storm Prediction Center is stating the heaviest line of thunderstorms will be from 3pm to 1am starting in western Minnesota moving through the central portion and then really pickup up steam over south-central and southeastern Minnesota where a large tornado outbreak is expected tonight. The storms are likely to produce heavy rain, large hail and straight line damaging winds today. Continue to listen to Little Falls Radio for the latest weather details.
A St. Cloud man is accused of running an illegal marijuana grow operation from his house and possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms. On Thursday afternoon, the Central Minnesota Violent Offender Task Force executed a search warrant at a home in the 1600 block of 10th Avenue Southeast. According to a press release, they located 23 marijuana plants in different stages of growth. They also allegedly confiscated six pounds of marijuana flower, two and a half pounds of marijuana concentrate, and a felony-level amount of Psilocybin mushrooms. Investigators say they also found six guns and cash believed to have come from drug sales. Minnesota law allows a person to grow up to eight plants, with no more than four budding at any time. Residents are also barred from possessing more than two pounds of marijuana flower. A 36-year-old living in the home was arrested and is facing multiple drug charges.
On Thursday, the Lakes Area Drug Investigative Division (LADID) executed a search warrant in the city of Brainerd as part of an ongoing investigation into the sale, distribution, and trafficking of methamphetamine in the Crow Wing County area. As a result of this investigation, 8.2 pounds of suspected methamphetamine with an approximate street value of $30,000 was located and seized. An adult male, who is a resident of Brainerd, was arrested and charged with multiple felony-level controlled substance crimes. The LADID reported a tip led to the arrest and ask that if the public notice suspicious activity in your area to call your local police or sheriff's office to investigate.
The Minnesota House passed the 2025 Agriculture Budget bill on Thursday with overwhelming bipartisan support in a 130-3 vote. The legislation, co-authored by Agriculture Committee co-chairs Rep. Rick Hansen (DFL-South St. Paul) and Rep. Paul Anderson (R-Starbuck), allocates $172.3 million for 2026-27 to fund the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the Board of Animal Health, the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, and the Office of Broadband Development. The budget this year is $17 million more than the previous biennium. Hansen issued a statement saying the budget has more funding for Local Food Purchasing and Farm to School programs while addressing recent federal cuts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The legislation also includes protections for farm, poultry, and dairy workers and secured retail testing for milk and poultry products to address bird flu. It also bumps up the Down Payment Assistance Grant program to support small emerging farmers. The bill now moves to conference committee, where the work starts to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate agriculture packages before final approval votes. Rep. Hansen added, “DFLers and Republicans came together to create an Ag budget that feeds kids and families, helps small farmers get ahead, and protects Minnesotans from bird flu.
Sartell Police are reporting a resident received an email from who they thought was Norton Antivirus requesting a phone call. The person answering asks them to log onto their computer, the victim did so, shortly after that their computer locked and so did their bank account. Tri County Crime Stoppers says the victim was asked to withdraw $8,000 and deposit that into a bitcoin machine, which they did. After this happened they received more phone calls and text messages asking the victim to withdraw an additional $20,000 and send it UPS to a mailing address in California. The victim did so but then contacted Police. The $20,000 package has not been recovered yet, it was asked that the victim request package be returned to sender but it hasn't yet. Sartell Police are also reporting a credit card fraud where someone noticed there were some fraudulent charges over about a month and a half on their credit card. These charges were happening in the Twin Cities Metro and in North Dakota. More than $11,000 was charged. After talking with the bank, some of the charges were refunded. Law Enforcement encourages everyone to keep a close eye on their credit card statements to make sure all of the charges made are legitimate. You should never give out information or follow computer requests over the phone, if you did not place the call to do so.
The Morrison County Sheriff's Office reminds those if you want to have your sandbox filled on May 14th contact the sheriff's office before May 12th to be on the list. Call 320-631-2880 and leave your name, phone number and where the sandbox is located. All that is required is a donation to the local food shelf. Sandboxes will be filled May 14th from 8am-4pm in a 3 mile radius of Bank Square in Downtown Little Falls.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected his wish to be remembered as a simple pastor. Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, prisoners and migrants welcomed Francis' coffin at his final resting place in a basilica across town. According to Vatican estimates, some 250,000 people attended the Mass at the Vatican and another 150,000 more lined the motorcade route through downtown Rome to witness the first funeral procession for a pope in a century. They clapped and cheered “Papa Francesco” as his simple wooden coffin travelled aboard a modified popemobile to St. Mary Major Basilica, some 6 kilometers away.
Death Notices- Patricia "Pat" May, age 83 of Randall.
Weather- Monday morning showers and thunderstorms, rising temps with a high 73 then afternoon and evening strong to severe storms possible with damaging winds and hail. Showers and storms likely until around midnight with some locally heavy rains and severe storms early on then much cooler and windy overnight, low 36. Tuesday partly cloudy, windy and cooler, high 55, low around 33. Wednesday sunny and pleasant, less windy, high 68, low 47 with rain returning Wednesday night into Thursday.
Sports- Timberwolves win 116-104 Friday over LA Lakers then came back in the 4th quarter to beat the Lakers again on Sunday with Anthony Edwards 43 points in a 116-113 win to now lead the series 3 games to 1. Game 5 now returns to Los Angeles Wednesday night. If need be Game 6 would be in Minneapolis on Friday night. Las Vegas beat the Minnesota Wild 4-3 in overtime Saturday in St. Paul. Series tied at 2 games each. Game 5 is Tuesday night in Las Vegas. The Twins beat the LA Angels 11-4 on Friday but lost Luke Keaschell to a broken forearm in the game. Twins continued their winning ways 5-1 on Saturday then Joe Ryan shuts down the Angels as Twins win 5-0 on Sunday to sweep the series and now win 5 of the their last 6 games. The Twins are in Cleveland today to start a 4 game series with the Guardians, pregame Monday at 4:30pm on Q92 WYRQ. High School Softball Tuesday Little Falls at Pierz at 5pm on AM960 KLTF and fallsradio.com.