river rescue

The Sauk Rapids Police Department and other law enforcement agencies rescued a man from the Mississippi River today (Thursday). Stearns County Sheriff's Lieutenant John Lentz says at about noon a man drove onto the Sauk Rapids bridge, parked his car, then ran a short distance on the bridge before jumping into the water, falling about 50 feet.

Two Twin Cities men had to be rescued from the Sauk River in Spring Hill Township Friday evening. The Stearns County Sheriff's Department got a call from a man who said two men from their group capsized their canoe and were clinging to some branches.

The swollen Sauk River continues to cause headaches for area rescue crews. The St. Cloud Fire Department was called to the river today after two men freed-up a sunken rescue boat that eventually got stranded on a bridge abutment.

St. Cloud fire crews conducted another river rescue on the swollen Sauk River. A woman and her boyfriend were tubing near the VA Medical Center when she became tangled in some trees.

Three teenage boys were treated for hypothermia after their small boat capsized and sank on a western Minnesota river. Wilkin County sheriff's officials say the three friends, all 17, were on the Otter Tail River near Breckenridge Monday night when the trolling motor on their flat-bottom boat failed.