Becker County News

When knitter Marybeth Potts heard that a local mitten tree, to which she regularly donated, was to be discontinued, she thought, "What can one person do?" Since that thought, Nimble Fingers on the Prairie has formed and donated more than 1,000 sets of hand-knit scarves, hats and mittens to children living in poverty.

Officials have identified the duck hunter whose body was recovered from a lake in northwestern Minnesota.

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On the Road with David Moen, our State Program Manager - November 16-18, 2009 Our own state program manager, David Moen, will be visiting the following towns Nov.

Ita s three down and one to go for establishment of the Prairie Lakes Municipal Solid Waste Authority that would oversee operations of the refuse burner in Perham.

Services for Evelyn Ingrid Sullinger, 69, Osage, are at 11 a.m. Saturday at Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Snellman.

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Around 5:30 P.M. Thursday, the Becker County Sheriff's Office received a report of a one car rollover on a rural township road.

Some rural Minnesota counties are concerned expanding the state's welfare fraud efforts will overload investigators and weaken a successful program.

Changes to a successful welfare fraud investigation program are raising some concerns about overloading investigators, reports MPR .

Three people are in custody for allegedly burglarizing dozens OF homes in Becker and Otter Tail counties since early September.

A plan to consolidate 911 emergency call centers across the state is drawing fire in northwestern Minnesota.

NEW YORK The Becker County Record, Detroit Lakes, Minn., has moved to Sunday distribution from Wednesday , while sister publication The Detroit Lakes Tribune is moving from Sunday to Wednesday distribution, Editor Nathan Bowe informed readers Friday on the DL-Online Web site.

At about 11:00 a.m. on Friday, September 25, the Becker County Sheriffa TMs Department received a report of a head-on collision three miles east of White Earth on County Highway 34.

The Becker County sheriff's office is identifying the mother and her two children who were killed in a head-on collision near White Earth last week.

Here is the latest Minnesota news from The Associated Press WHITE EARTH, Minn. Becker County officials say a Pine Point mother and her two sons died after a head-on collision near White Earth.

A Pine Point mother and her two sons died Friday after a head-on collision near White Earth sent their vehicle skidding down a steep embankment and into Net Lake.

On Sept. 24, 1909, about a year after a city-owned dam was built as part of a hydroelectric station along the Otter Tail River east of Fergus Falls, employee Ben Snyder was awakened at 4:20 a.m. and noticed the lights fading.

Authorities are working on identifying a body that was found in the wreckage of a house fire.

The White Earth Fire Department battled a blaze that destroyed a mobile home in a secluded area in Sugar Bush Township, just after 7 a.m. Thursday.