Foley News

T.J. Stiles has won the 2009 National Book Award in the non-fiction category for a oeThe First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt,a his expansive biography of the early American railroad mogul.

Some of the youngest drivers in the United States have challenges beyond being new to driving: More than a quarter - 26 percent - of 16- and 17-year-olds send text messages while they're behind the wheel, according to a national study on teens and distracted driving released Monday.

Deputies arrested a Sauk Rapids man Saturday who was driving a stolen vehicle and was accompanied by a 16-year-old runaway.

United Way Volunteer Central connects people with volunteer opportunities. Call United Way of Central Minnesota at 252-0227 or visit www.unitedwayhelps.org. Holiday donations: Salvation Army needs donations to help incarcerated parents give gifts to their children.

FOLEY - Longtime Benton County coroner Dr. Clifford Stiles is retiring at the end of the month.

FOLEY - Staff cuts at the Benton County Sheriff's Office have administrators scrambling to figure out how to keep up with security needs.

Children crying and screaming. Parents reassuring and comforting. Health care workers sitting and waiting.

FOLEY - The 50th annual Benton County 4-H Leaders Banquet was held Oct. 8 at Foley Intermediate School's cafeteria.

CLEAR LAKE - A Foley woman was arrested Saturday after the SUV she was driving ran into a tractor pulling adults on a hayride, Sherburne County Sheriff Joel Brott said.

A flu vaccine clinic for children in the Sauk Rapids early childhood program is among the first to be scheduled in the region.

National Book Award nominee T.J. Stiles is a Foley native. He attended Carleton College and has degrees from Columbia University.

United Way Volunteer Central connects people with volunteer opportunities. Call United Way of Central Minnesota at 252-0227 or visit www.unitedwayhelps.org. Help a teacher: Mississippi Heights Elementary School in Sauk Rapids needs a teacher's assistant for third grade to help with grading papers, filing and reading with students.

The subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees were better known than the authors.

The National Book Awards finalists were announced Wednesday, and Minnesota is looking pretty good.

What: The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in finding two men added to the county's 10 most-wanted list.

RONNEBY - A 79-year-old Foley woman died and her husband was injured today after their car was hit from behind while it was stopped on Minnesota Highway 23 waiting to turn onto Benton County Road 6 near Ronneby.

WASHINGTON, D.C. a ' It could have been a scene straight from the Minnesota State Fair: a cow munching hay with a gaggle of politicians milling around and talking.

FOLEY - A former Benton County employee faces a felony theft charge after she was accused of stealing $130 of public money while she worked in the auditor-treasurer's office.

FOLEY - Police have linked two Annandale men to golf course burglaries in five jurisdictions, Benton County Sheriff Brad Bennett said.

Elizabeth Olson, a 19-year-old University of Minnesota student from Hutchinson, Minn., was crowned the 56th Princess Kay of the Milky Way during a Wednesday evening ceremony at the State Fairgrounds.