Wabasha residents grieve following fatal boat crash on Lake Pepin
The southeastern Minnesota community of Wabasha is reeling after a deadly crash on Lake Pepin Saturday night.
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The southeastern Minnesota community of Wabasha is reeling after a deadly crash on Lake Pepin Saturday night.
Two of the decedents were members of the Wabasha Fire Department, the chief confirmed.
The boat belonged to Gary Schoeder Jr., who spent years serving as a police officer and firefighter in Zumbrota. Schroeder medically retired in 2020 while battling PTSD. He later died by suicide in 2023.
A family in southern Minnesota is asking for your help to find a stolen boat you can't put a price on. The boat is tied to memories of a brother and father who passed three years ago. Now, his family say communities across the state are rallying around them.
A 69-year-old man has been arrested after a Lakeville, Minnesota, woman's death was ruled a homicide, the Wabasha County Sheriff's Office said Friday.
One person is dead and another is recovering after a fire at a two-story home in Lake City, Minnesota, on Sunday.
The woman's death was "sudden" and there was no "obvious injury or trauma," the sheriff's office said. The office added that it is standard practice to rule a death suspicious "until further information is obtained."
A woman was "severely injured" and later died in Wabasha County Wednesday, and a man is in custody in connection with her death, authorities said.
United States Sen. Amy Klobuchar visited Minnesota's National Eagle Center on Monday to celebrate the official designation of the bald eagle as the National Bird of the United States.
Authorities in southern Minnesota say a 6-year-old is in the hospital after someone accidentally shot them on Tuesday evening.
The Minnesota Center for Environmental Agency and other community organizations said the contamination is causing an "imminent and substantial" threat to public health.
A 12-year-old boy is dead after a snowmobile crash Sunday afternoon in rural Wabasha County.
A 12-year-old boy is dead after a snowmobile crash Sunday afternoon in rural Wabasha County.
The popularity of the pump organ may have died off decades ago, but for a Wabasha County man, they just might be the future.
There are rock sculptures that have been in Wabasha County for 100 years, and they’re a geologist’s dream. But nobody knows exactly why they’re there.
John Trainor, of Millville, was found guilty of two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree and one count of the use of a minor in a sexual performance.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash.
A passenger on a motorcycle died in southern Minnesota Saturday evening when the driver swerved to avoid a deer and crashed, authorities said.
Deputies in Wabasha County have confiscated roughly 5 pounds of meth and charged a 46-year-old man with two counts of controlled substance crime.
Authorities in southeastern Minnesota have identified the boater whose body was pulled Monday from the Mississippi River.
An 89-year-old man was found dead in the water in Wabasha County Monday evening.
A court has closed a Wabasha County gym that was refusing to temporarily close its operations as required by Gov. Tim Walz's COVID-19 restrictions.
The incident happened around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. The Wabasha County Sheriff's Office says one person was able to jump off the pontoon before it went over the dam.
A pontoon boat went over the power dam at Lake Zumbro in Wabasha County around 10:40 p.m. Saturday. The pontoon driver realized they were at the edge of the dam near Mac's Park Place, the report said.
Sydney Flack, 17, was driving in the southbound lane heading to Winona Friday night, when suddenly and without warning, a limestone boulder tumbled down the bluff and right into her path.
