NEWS
--Congratulations to Pierz as they achieve success for the Pierz Track Team at the Minnesota State Track Championships Friday night. Ashley Kimman would finish 1st in the 100m hurdles with a time of 14.98 and then Jonny Cheney won the 110m hurdles for the boys in Class A with a time 14.81 both getting gold medals at state.
--The Little Falls Flyer Baseball team will open the Class AAA State Tournament Tuesday against the top seed New Prague at 3pm in Jordan. This will be the 3rd of 4 games that day. There will be a sendoff for the team on Tuesday morning at 9am at the horseshoe area on the south side of the Little Falls Community High School. All are encouraged to root on the Little Falls Flyer as they head out of town on Tuesday morning to the state tournament in Jordan. You can hear the Flyer games on AM960 KLTF and at fallsradio.com.
--Congratulations to Upsala Girls Softball who finished fourth at the Class A State Tournament on Friday losing 6-0 to Moose Lake-Willow River. Upsala wins 1 of 3 at State and again finishes 4th.
--The Minnesota Department of Education has announced a data breach on one of its servers. Minnesota IT Services was notified of the breach Wednesday and took immediate action to limit any additional data loss. The cyber attack was part of a global attack on the MOVEit software, used by many businesses and government agencies The initial investigation has revealed that the breach included: The names of 95,000 children placed in foster care across the state, 124 students in the Perham School District who qualified for the Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer, 29 students taking classes at Hennepin Technical College and 5 students on the same bus route in Minneapolis. A statement from the Department of Education says the files accessed relating to foster care students contained demographic data including the names, dates of birth, and county of placement. Information accessed related to the P-EBT files from the Perham School District contained demographic data including student names, date of birth, and in some instances home addresses and the parent or guardian. The data relating to PSEO participants at Hennepin Technical College included student names, date of birth, addresses, and in some instances the parent or guardian name(s), and high school and college transcript information containing the last four digits of the student’s social security number.
No financial information was included in the breach, and the department is working to notify affected individuals. For more information on the attack, find the data breach website from the Minnesota Department of Education on their website.
--After voting on Friday, striking workers at DeZURIK in Sartell will be heading back to work after ratifying a new, three-year contract The Local Lodge 623 of the International Machinists and Aerospace Workers have been on strike since Sunday night after vetoing the previous offer. The work stoppage came about over wages and benefits concerns but also issues over some management practices.
DeZURIk President and CEO Bryan Burns issued a statement announcing the agreement. Burns says full production resumes at the Sartell plant resumed last night.
--The Morrison County Food Shelf is having a volunteer/community appreciation picnic on Thursday June 15th from 11:30 until 1 pm. Come enjoy lunch and tour the food shelf. This is to thank all the volunteers and the community that supports the food shelf.
--The Pierz City Council meets tonight at 7pm at Pierz City Hall.
--The last of four defendants charged in the June 2021 murder of a woman in south St. Cloud has pleaded guilty to an amended plea. Thirty-five-year-old Angela Jones has pleaded guilty to felony aiding an offender after-the-fact in the shooting death of 25-year-old Keisa Lange of Litchfield. Jones also entered an Alford plea on 2nd-degree murder with intent, no premeditation in the shooting death of Janessa Harris in May 2021. The pleas are in exchange that all other counts be dismissed at sentencing. The sentence for Harris's murder has not been determined yet. A Stearns County jury convicted 25-year-old DeAntae Davis on 1st-degree premeditated murder and other murder charges in Lange's death. He'll be sentenced at the end of June. Two other defendants in that murder have had their cases adjudicated. Twenty-eight-year-old Kenneth Carter was acquitted of all charges by a Stearns County jury, while 38-year-old Alicia Lewis pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Court records alleged Lange was murdered because the defendants thought she was a police informant. Her body was found at the end of Cooper Avenue South in St. Cloud on June 3, 2021. Harris's body was found in a St. Cloud apartment unit in the 1400 block of 12th Avenue North on June 2nd, 2021. Court records indicate she was killed on or about May 31st.
--A Wright County man has been formally charged for allegedly pouring gas on two people while they slept and lighting them on fire. The Chisago County Attorney's office says the incident happened on Sunday at about 3:30am in Fish Lake Township. Emergency responders arrived on the scene to find the man and woman outside the home on the ground rolling in a blanket and screaming in pain. There were flames and heavy smoke coming from the house. The man told deputies he had been sleeping in bed with the woman when 34-year-old Dallas Evenstad had come into the bedroom and threw gas on him and set him on fire. The male victim was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center where he later died. The woman suffered extensive wounds to her legs and hands with second and third-degree burns. She also named Evenstad as the man who lit them on fire. The woman says he had previously threatened the adult daughter of the man who died.
DEATH NOTICES
--Marlene Carol Virnig, age 78 of Little Falls.
WEATHER
TODAY= sunny skies, high near 80.
TONIGHT= clear night, low near 50.
TUESDAY= sunny and warmer, high 86, low around 60.
WEDNESDAY= sunny and even warmer, high 90, low around 63.
SPORTS
TWINS= Twins beat Toronto 3-2 in 10 innings on Friday. Twins go long ball on Saturday to beat Toronto 9-4. Twins blow a 6-1 lead as Toronto comes back to win 7-6 Sunday. Twins have today off.
GOLF= Good Luck to the Abby Turkowski and Imagine Hines of Little Falls who will compete at the State Girls Golf Tournament this week.
Find out how you can win Lakes Jam VIP passes and tickets by tuning in to Q92 WYRQ and 94ROCKS KFML this week. Details on the ticket giveaway and registration locations at the Little Falls Radio Facebook page.