One person was killed in a crash on Highway 15 near Kimball yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon. The State Patrol says the incident happened just after 2:00 p.m. near Lake Carnelian.
Authorities say alcohol and speed may have been factors in a Brooklyn Center crash that killed two people. State Patrol spokesman Lt. Eric Roeske says witnesses say the car was moving at very high speed when it blew through a red light at Highway 100 and 57th Street, broadsiding another car and killing the two people inside just before 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
A funeral is set for a woman and her two young daughters killed in a crash during a winter storm in central Minnesota. Thirty-one-year-old Melissa Lorenz and her daughters - 10-year-old Angela and 7-year-old Desiree - died Monday night on Highway 27 just west of Little Falls.
Icy roads are to blame for a fatal crash on Interstate 94 in Stearns County. 62-year-old John Kalas of Bloomington lost control of the pick-up he was driving and sput-out hitting a wall, and then was struck by a truck.
Three people were killed in a three-vehicle crash near Little Falls last (Monday) evening. The State Patrol says the incident happened just before 7:00 p.m. on Highway 27, four miles west of Little Falls.
A 28-year-old man was killed in a rollover in Benton County. William Thompson of Bemidji was the driver of the vehicle. He was killed when he was ejected as the vehicle rolled in the ditch.