Thursday, September 4, 2025
Morrison County Sheriff Shawn Larsen announced the commencement of the Law Enforcement Scholarship Program for 2025. Sheriff Larsen proudly announced that the MSA Board of Directors has established a scholarship fund for the awarding of up to 18 - $2,000 scholarships for this year. These scholarships are due to the coordinated efforts of the 87 elected Sheriffs of the State of Minnesota. The MSA gives special recognition to the financial needs of students attending the peace officer skills course or one of the two or four-year law enforcement degree programs around the state. The MSA recognizes the importance of pre entry training for people considering law enforcement as their career choice. The MSA also acknowledges that some students may need outside help in meeting the costs of such training, even though they excel academically. The MSA Scholarship Committee, in making its selection of awards, intends to achieve representation from all geographical areas of the state. The scholarship deadline is November 28, 2025. Awards will be announced by December 30th of the same year. Application forms and a statement of procedures are available at the Morrison County Sheriff’s Office. Scholarships are only available to students currently enrolled in one of the following three categories: 1. Mandated POST Skills Program. 2. In their second year of a two-year law enforcement program. 3. In their third or fourth year of a four-year college criminal justice program. To qualify, students must have completed at least one year of the two-year program or two years of a four-year program. Students meeting these criteria are invited to obtain a scholarship application form from their local sheriff’s office or online at www.mnsheriffs.org.
Wednesday morning, on the House floor, 7th District Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach congratulated the Pierz Lakers on their weekend victory in the Class C State Amateur Baseball Tournament. Her office wanted to make sure all got a chance to listen to her with his video clip video clip.
A 17-year-old St. Cloud boy is facing felony charges after a short police chase in Waite Park Tuesday evening. A Waite Park Police officer was on patrol just before 7:00 p.m. when they tried to stop a vehicle near the 3rd Street North detour area. The driver fled and quickly evaded the officer before crashing the vehicle in a yard near the area where the officer lost sight of the suspect's vehicle. Officers set up a perimeter and called in the Sartell Police Department's drone unit to help search the area. A number of witnesses also helped direct officers to where the suspects were. The 17-year-old juvenile suspect driver was arrested and held for court. Authorities say they found a BB gun on the teen, who now faces multiple charges, including felony aggravated assault, felony 2nd-degree assault, felony fleeing police in a motor vehicle, and others. Two passengers, 18-year-old Hussein Mohamed Makaran and 19-year-old Abshir Muhidin Farah, both of St. Cloud, were cited for misdemeanor fleeing police.
A driver was hurt in a crash in Sherburne County. The Minnesota State Patrol says the incident happened on Wednesday at about 2:30 p.m. on Highway 24 at 106th Street in Clear Lake Township. Eighty-three-year-old Gary Marsden of Clear Lake was driving a 2015 Porsche Boxster north on the highway from County Road 75 when he left the road and struck a tree. Marsden was taken to St. Cloud Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The State Patrol says assisted by Mayo Ambulance, Sherburne County Sheriff, Wright County Sheriff, and Clear Lake Fire Department.
Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance are in Minneapolis Wednesday, exactly one week after a deadly shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church. The Vances boarded Air Force 2 in Washington D.C. around 9:15 a.m. CST, and landed at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport at 11:30 a.m. A motorcade transported them to Annunciation School, where the Vice President and Mrs. Vance stood in front of a memorial and laid bouquets amid the numerous other flowers before walking to meet the families in private, away from cameras. According to the vice president's staff, Jesse and Mollie Merkel and Mick and Jackie Moyski, the parents of the two children who were killed, Fletcher and Harper, respectively, joined Vice President Vance, as well as Annunciation Father Denis Zehren and Principal Matt DeBoer. The Vances also reportedly visited the church sanctuary to pay their respects.
Next Thursday marks the 24th anniversary of the tragic September 11th attacks in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. Central Minnesota will remember those who died and all who helped in that tragic day at ceremonies including at 8am at the Morrison County Government Center in Little Falls. 12:45pm on that Thursday with a Patriotic Rosary at St. Joseph's Church in Pierz with many groups, organizations and students from the school. There will be a program at 5pm at the St. Cloud Police Department to remember the fallen on that fateful day September 11th, 2001. AM960 KLTF will have a special program with Jerry Stewart in the noon hour next Thursday to remember 9-11.
Weather- increasing clouds with afternoon showers and thunderstorms, high 62, storms likely tonight some with heavy rains and gusty winds, cool, low around 42. Friday partly sunny skies and windy, high 57, clear Friday night low around 39. Saturday partly sunny, slight chance of PM showers, high 60, low around 34 with patchy frost into Sunday. Sunday sunny skies, high around 65, clear night low around 47. Sunny skies on Monday, slight chance of late day thundershower, warmer, high around 71 low around 50.
Sports- White Sox score 3 runs in the 9th to beat the Twins 4-3 last night at Target Field to take the first three games of the series as the Twins wrap up series with Chicago White Sox tonight at 6pm on Q92 WYRQ. The Minnesota Lynx (32-8) are in Las Vegas tonight at 9pm. The NFL regular season begins tonight as Dallas is at defending Super Bowl Champions Philadelphia Eagles, hear the action starting at 6pm tonight on AM960 KLTF. Tune in Saturday at 9:05am for the weekly Saturday Morning Sports Wrap on high school sports and Alex had a chance to do many interviews with the Class C State Champions Pierz Lakers, hear all of his interviews Saturday morning on AM960 KLTF and fallsradio.com.