NEWS
--The Central Minnesota Violent Offender Task force executed a search warrant in the 800 block of 25th Ave. North, in the City Of St. Cloud on Thursday. Central Minnesota Violent Offender Task Force Investigators started an investigation after they learned controlled substances were possibly being distributed from the residence. When Investigators entered the residence, they located the resident, Horace Lamond Wimberly, 27 years old and Darnell Darron Gray, 35 years old from Minneapolis. As investigators searched the residence, they located one shot gun, one stolen handgun, and one handgun with an obliterated serial number. Investigators also located a little more than 23 pounds of marijuana and almost $5,000.00 which is believed to be proceeds from drug sales. Wimberly was transported to Stearns County jail where he is booked for 3rd degree possession of controlled substance, ineligible person in possession of firearm, and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Gray was also transported to Stearns County where he was booked for 5th degree possession of controlled substance and ineligible person in possession of firearm. The Central Minnesota Violent Offender Task Force was assisted by the St. Cloud Police Department. The Central Minnesota Violent Offender Task Force is comprised of Investigators from St. Cloud, and Sartell Police Departments and deputies from Stearns, Benton, Sherburne, Todd and Morrison Counties.
--Authorities in northern Minnesota have made an arrest in the homicide of 19-year-old Brandon Morgan Jr. on Monday night. Cass County Sheriff Tom Burch says his office responded to an emergency call at a home in Cass Lake just before 6pm Monday. Deputies found the man's body at the home. An autopsy is scheduled. The sheriff says homicide is suspected and on Thursday a 15-year-old was arrested who allegedly told authorities he fought with Morgan and killed him. Formal charges are pending with Cass County attorney.
--Authorities in Meeker County say someone left "booby traps" in a farmer's field apparently meant to damage farm equipment. Sheriff Brian Cruze says a farmer near Cedar Mills on Monday reported minor damage to a combine after a chain was drawn into the machine during harvesting. The sheriff says the chain may have been in the corn for weeks or months. But he says when the farm family got deeper into the crop, it happened again. Mindy Johnson's family farms about 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans. She says the second incident involved a 6-foot piece of steel rebar pounded into the ground near a cornstalk where it was hard to see. Johnson says she doesn't know why her family's farm would be singled out. On Thursday afternoon the Meeker County Sheriff stated they believe the items were put in the fields intentionally possibly by other farmers, co-workers or acquaintances. However, they would not elaborate if this was done as a bad prank for the hoping to disabling equipment or causing injury. They would only say the investigation is ongoing.
--The Friends of the Library are in need of new members to help continue the history of the Carnegie Library in Little Falls for years to come. Members of the Friends of the Library will be at Coborn's Marketplace today from 8am-3pm to discuss what they do and how you can become the member. The Friends of the Library are also working again on the Holiday Gift Giving Program this year where they will be handing out books to the needy children on the Saturday before Christmas. For more information stop by Coborn's today between 8am-3pm or call the library at 632-9676.
--The West Side Improvement Association is reminding all that the Santa Parade will be back in Little Falls next Friday night at 6pm. The parade starts on the west side near Anderson Custom Processing on Lindbergh Drive and travels north to Highway then east to Bank Square but only on the eastbound lane of 27. Left at Bank Square onto 1st Street and north of the Fire Hall. If you wish to have an entry in the parade (reminder that they ask no Santa Claus as he will arrive at the end), fill out the form on their facebook page, or contact Mary Bednarek at the Little Falls Chamber at 632-5155. They ask that forms be turned in by November 25th for the Parade on the 29th.
--The Little Falls School Board meets Monday at 5pm at the Little Falls Community Middle School media center. Agenda items include approval of 2020 meeting schedule, receive the World's Best Workforce Annual report, get the 2018-19 fiscal audit, establish polling places for next year's school board elections and set a date for the school board retreat in the spring of 2020.
--A busy weekend of events, Cinderella performed at Pierz Healy High School tonight 7pm and Sunday 2pm, a tribute to Buddy Holly show tonight at GRA in Little Falls, St. Mary's Catholic Church in Little Falls Christmas Bazaar 8am-6:30pm Saturday with food, bingo, silent auction and many trickets and treasures to check over, then again 9am-12pm on Sunday with breakfast and raffle at noon. Fall Harvest Breakfast and Bake Sale Sunday at St. Joseph's Parish Hall in Morrill, all you can eat from 8:30am-12pm. Bake and food sale will be held in Bowlus on Sunday from 12-5pm, Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota presents What the World Needs Now concert of uplifting music at 3:30pm Sunday at Tornstrom Auditorium in Brainerd, the concert is free of charge. Turkey Bingo Sunday at St. Mathias Catholic Church, Sacred Heart in Flensburg and also at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Motley. Get details on events at fallsradio.com.
--The Pierz City Council meets 7pm Monday night at Pierz City Hall.
WEATHER
TODAY= sunny skies, high around 35.
TONIGHT= partly cloudy skies, low 26.
SATURDAY= sunny skies, high near 40, clouds increase late, low 30.
SUNDAY= rain showers possible, high 41, rain/snow late, low 30.
MONDAY= rain/snow early, then cloudy, high 38, low around 25.
SPORTS
COL FB= #10 ranked Gophers travel to Northwestern Saturday, kickoff is at 11am, pregame starts around 9am on AM960 KLTF.
NFL= Vikings are off this weekend for their bye and are actually off until Monday, December 2nd when they take on Seattle.
COX= former Minnesota Viking kicker Fred Cox died on Wednesday at at the age of 80 in Monticello. Cox was the all time leading scorer in Vikings history playing in all four Super Bowls as he kicked for Minnesota from 1963-1977.
HS FB= The Prep Bowl is next Friday and Saturday (November 29th-30th) at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Pierz will take on Dassel-Cokato Saturday November 30th at 1pm on FM94 KFML.
TODAY IN HISTORY
IN 1917= The National Hockey League formed.
IN 1963= President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. A nation mourned a tragic loss.
IN 1984= Fred Roger's sweater went into the Smithsonian in DC.