Murray County News

About 25 county and law enforcement officials from Pipestone, Murray, Nobles, Rock, Redwood and Lyon Counties met June 18 in Slayton to discuss the best way to proceed with the Public Safety Answering Point consolidation study.

Charges were filed Monday against an Iona man who allegedly broke into a house in the middle of the night and entered the bedroom of a 17-year-old girl while she was sleeping.

After spending a year defending his country, Staff Sgt. Aaron Larson is home from Iraq and able to hold his little boy close _ something that means a lot to a man who suffered the loss of his boyhood friend, Jacob Wetterling, when he was just 11 years old.

Services for Elmer A. Johnson, 90, of Balaton will be at 10:30 a.m. today at the Skandia Evangelical Free Church, rural Balaton.

SLAYTON - A former Avoca man facing charges in three separate cases entered into a plea agreement Friday in Murray County District court, and is now out of jail until sentencing.

An easy waiver process would also help counties economize. Last update: March 16, 2009 - 10:41 AM MANDATES ADD UP Among hundreds of minor mandates the Association of Minnesota Counties is seeking to modify or ...

Last week's worrisome front-page New York Times story a ' "As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero" a ' raised the specter of a death knell for many papers in big markets,A but also brought an ...

The proposal to encompass Jackson County's Loon Lake and Jackson trails in a new state trail was merged with an effort to extend the Casey Jones State Trail and passed by the Minnesota Senate's Environment and ...

WORTHINGTON - The good times are rolling right now in New Orleans, as the southern city prepares for the culmination of its annual Mardi Gras celebration on Tuesday - Fat Tuesday.

Richard Leo Derksen, 66, of Woodstock was arrested Tuesday, Feb. 10 after a shooting incident in his home.

Deputy commends dispatcher for calm handling of situation WOODSTOCK - An armed standoff in Murray County Tuesday night ended with the arrest of two rural Woodstock men.

Plans for a small community wind project have collided with a large existing wind farm bringing years of planning to an abrupt halt.

Services for Arnold "Arnie" H. Terhark, 73, of Balaton will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Balaton Methodist Church.

Jackson County's Teal Lake, a small body of water east of Heron Lake, is one of three shallow lakes in southwest Minnesota that the Department of Natural Resources is now aiming to improve.