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Becker County Sheriff deputies, Detroit Lakes Police officers and St. Mary's EMS workers work the scene of a pedestrian/train accident near the intersection of Highway 10 and Washington Avenue in Detroit Lakes, Minn., Tuesday morning. A 35 year-old Detroit Lakes woman was killed by a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train as she tried to "beat the train" across the tracks, according to police. The woman was carrying the stuffed animal in the police car. Brian Basham/DL Newspapers

Woman killed in Detroit Lakes train accident identified

A Detroit Lakes woman was killed Tuesday morning by a train at the Washington Avenue crossing. A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train struck Shannon Marie Bugge, 35, of 1318 Lori...

news Wed, Apr 07, 2010 - 9:01am

Train kills pedestrian in Detroit Lakes

DETROIT LAKES, Minn.

news Tue, Apr 06, 2010 - 2:18pm

The Bemidji Fire Department was one of four agencies that responded Wednesday morning to a phantom 911 call from out on Lake Bemidji. The Fire Department responded with its hovercraft, which was the first time this year the vehicle was used. Photo Courtesy Bemidji Fire Department

A mystery 911 call: Helicopters, hovercraft assisted in search for unknown source

Emergency responders spent about three hours Wednesday morning in search of a person who may have been in distress. The incident remains unsolved - no one was located - but...

news Fri, Apr 02, 2010 - 4:47am

Driver in fatal snowmobile crash is sentenced

Mark Andrew Ruder, the driver involved in the snowmobile crash that resulted in the death of off-duty Alexandria Police Officer Patrick Callaghan, was sentenced Friday. Ruder, 25, of Alexandria was...

news Wed, Mar 31, 2010 - 12:19am

Montevideo man killed while moving snow

MONTEVIDEO, Minn. -- A man was killed here Sunday when the front-end loader he was using to move snow rolled down a hill. According to the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff's...

news Mon, Feb 15, 2010 - 3:00pm

Pat Callaghan

Off-duty police officer dies after crash, February 2010

New details have emerged about a snowmobile crash that resulted in the death of an off-duty Alexandria Police officer, Patrick Callaghan. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office and North Ambulance were...

news Wed, Feb 03, 2010 - 2:36pm

Willmar man dies as result of Thursday accident, January 2010

KERKHOVEN -- A Willmar man who was injured in an accident Thursday near Kerkhoven has died. Craig W. Hartman, 53, of Willmar, died Friday at the St. Cloud Hospital, according...

news Mon, Jan 11, 2010 - 8:47am

NDSU student home from hospital after being exposed to extreme cold

An 18-year-old from Fargo who was hospitalized after being exposed to extreme cold following a New Year's Eve party is back home. Jacob Eichelberger wrote in his online CaringBridge journal...

news Mon, Jan 11, 2010 - 8:43am

"You just never think that anything like this would ever happen," says Keri Drinka, an NDSU academic director whose office was damaged. "I'm just so thankful that nobody was in there."

Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor

BUILDING CAVES IN: No one injured in overnight collapse at NDSU excavation site

Part of a wall collapsed from Minard Hall, a classroom building on the North Dakota State University campus, sometime between midnight and 3 a.m. Sunday. No one was in the...

news / education Mon, Dec 28, 2009 - 7:23am

Fallen apples lead to runaway steer's ultimate downfall

DAWSON -- Fresh fallen apples proved to be the cause of this steer's own down fall. The 1,200-pound Black Angus may have thought he escaped his fate when a mix...

news Thu, Oct 29, 2009 - 5:46am

Beet truck driver charged with negligent homicide in death of Wahpeton teenager

WAHPETON, N.D. - Cathleen Dean, 52, of Barney faces charges of negligent homicide in connection with a late September accident that killed an 18-year-old Wahpeton woman, WDAY TV News reported...

news Wed, Oct 14, 2009 - 8:38am

UPDATE: Morris woman killed in car crash

A 77-year-old Morris woman was killed Wednesday morning in a head-on crash near the Minnewaska Area High School. Margaret E. Miller died from injuries sustained in the accident at about...

news Wed, Sep 23, 2009 - 11:01am

With Alexandria firefighters looking on, a haz-mat crew transferred fuel from a tipped-over tanker to another tanker Monday morning in a ditch near County Road 45.

Echo Press photo by Celeste Beam

Tanker rollover closes road

County Road 45 west of Alexandria was closed for several hours Monday morning after a tanker truck filled with unleaded fuel tipped over on its side. The accident took place...

news Wed, Sep 23, 2009 - 9:08am

Two blocks of power poles and lines were left askew when a boom truck operator, with boom raised, went down a Park Rapids street and snagged a line, setting off a domino effect. (Sarah Smith /Enterprise)

Boom truck snags power line; causes massive power outage in Park Rapids

Much of Park Rapids was left in the dark Thursday afternoon when a boom truck operator snagged a power line, setting off a chain reaction and causing a power outage...

news Fri, Sep 04, 2009 - 4:23am

Firefighters examine a SUV involved in a one-vehicle crash just before noon on Wednesday five miles west of Morris on Highway 28.

UPDATE: Chokio man injured in one-vehicle accident

A Chokio man was injured just before noon Wednesday in a one-vehicle crash about five miles west of Morris on Highway 28. Wesley Picht, 44, was traveling west on Highway...

news Wed, Aug 26, 2009 - 12:29pm

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