2 dead, 1 in critical condition in Willmar park shooting, police say
Two young men are dead and another is in critical condition after a shooting in a park Monday night in Willmar, Minnesota, according to police.
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Two young men are dead and another is in critical condition after a shooting in a park Monday night in Willmar, Minnesota, according to police.
The Willmar Police Department says Paige Wollman left a home on the 800 block of Park Avenue Northwest on Sept. 1 alongside another girl, who has seen been found safe.
Federal labor officials say they have recovered more than $600,000 in back wages for employees of a Mediterranean restaurant with multiple locations in Minnesota.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, the incident happened just after 8 a.m. on Highway 40 at 60th Street Southwest, west of Willmar.
Public schools in Willmar, Minnesota, are closed Tuesday after the district "received a threat regarding school safety," officials said.
While many of the headlines have focused on the Twin Cities, greater Minnesota is feeling the impacts of the immigration crackdown, too.
Authorities say a teenage girl missing from central Minnesota for more than a month may have run away with a 23-year-old man.
The fatal shooting of a boy in central Minnesota on Monday night was likely targeted, police say.
Eight train cars carrying ethanol derailed in central Minnesota Wednesday night, though railway officials say no one was injured and the cars "were not compromised."
A 20-year-old Willmar man has been sentenced to prison for his role in a fatal head-on crash in New London two years ago.
A deputy is in stable condition after their squad car went off a south-central Minnesota road and flipped on Thursday evening.
Daniel Lohse pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol for the July 24, 2022, collision that killed Dalia Zuniga.
At the scene of the shooting, "a number of witnesses in the area were uncooperative with the investigation," police said.
Police in the central Minnesota city of Willmar arrested a 72-year-old man who allegedly threatened to open fire inside a business Wednesday afternoon.
The Midwest Medical Examiner's Office announced Wednesday that Michael Yanacheak's cause of death was blunt force injuries of the head as a result of being tased.
A 55-year-old Willmar woman is in custody accused of running a brothel in a massage parlor and abusing one of her employees.
A Willmar police officer shot a man Sunday morning after the man threatened the officer with a knife, according to the city's police department.
Michael Yanacheak's cause of death has not yet been determined, the BCA said. The 75-year-old was hospitalized after Kandiyohi County deputy Riley Kampsen shocked him with a stun gun.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating after a Kandiyohi County deputy tased a man Monday morning.
Officials believed the powder was a controlled substance.
A 52-year-old man was struck and killed by a motorist on Tuesday.
Carson Eichhorst, a 120-pound junior on Willmar's wrestling team, is known for a variety of devastating moves. And he does them all with one arm.
A 32-year-old man and 32-year-old woman, both from Willmar, are being held in the Kandiyohi County Jail.
The Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office says it responded to the crash at the intersection of 60th Street Southwest and 105th Avenue Southwest at approximately 9:44 a.m.
Authorities in central Minnesota say a suspect is in custody after a road rage incident led to a police chase and eventual crash on Saturday.
