Lyon County News

Four miles outside of Lynd sits a farm that has been in the Madden family for five generations.

A 29-year-old Cottonwood woman has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for a November crash that killed a 17-year-old Marshall girl.

A 29-year-old Cottonwood woman has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for a November crash that killed a 17-year-old Marshall girl.

THUMBS UP: Members of Bethel Fellowship are doing what their ancestors may have done 100 or so years ago.

The Pipestone County Board of Commissioners has thrown its support behind a groundbreaking wind energy project between the Rural Minnesota Energy Board and the Metropolitan Counties Energy Task Force and the Metropolitan Council.

Lyon County would benefit from having a countywide Economic Development Authority, but it shouldn't replace local development groups, said members of a recommendation committee at Tuesday's County Board meeting.

Benjamin Mark Rohlik, 23, of Lucan appeared in Lyon County District Court Tuesday on a charge of fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle, open bottle, reckless driving and two counts of third degree driving while impaired.

Pipestone County residents can soon get an up close and personal look at the county through the use of a Web program called GeoMOOSE.

Robert William DeCrock, 29, of Minneota pleaded guilty in Lyon County District Court April 28 to a charge of third degree driving while impaired.

Lincoln County Sheriff Jack Vizecky didn't know Gov. Tim Pawlenty had signed Brandon's Law Thursday afternoon because he was out searching for Swanson or evidence of Swanson along the Yellow Medicine River.

Courtney K. Voorhees, 29, of Cottonwood pleaded guilty in Lyon County District Court Tuesday to one count each of criminal vehicular homicide and criminal vehicular injury.

Jessica Grace Walters, 27, of Marshall was sentenced in Lyon County District Court April 7 on a charge of second degree refusal to test with the aggravating factor of prior DWIs in 2005 and 2006.

The Minnesota House on Monday unanimously approved legislation that would require a quicker response when young adults go missing.

Romeo Lucas Perez-Bravo, 28, of Marshall appeared in Lyon County District Court March 24 on a warrant in a probation violation hearing.

Mr. Per Peterson's statement in the Saturday edition of the Marshall Independent that, "I find it hard to believe anyone would want to abolish the police department in their own city," points out that he hasn't bothered to check out any facts on the subject.

The Lyon County Historical Museum is all moved in and ready to unveil a new look to the public.

A group of searchers will try again today to find a 19-year-old man who went missing in May in southwestern Minnesota.

There isn't much doubt that the city of Minneota will need to look at sustainable budget cuts to cope with reductions in state aid money, city officials said this week.

The dozens of commuters who travel Minnesota Highway 68 from Canby to Marshall may still believe it's a long ways off, but MnDOT project director Patrick Weideman did have some hopeful news this week on a ...

MINNESOTA LITERARY GIANT BILL HOLM toppled over recently at 65, collapsing in the Sioux Falls airport of pneumonia and heart problems on his way home to Minneota, Minn., from a month of writing in southern ...