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A woman is seriously hurt after falling out of an ATV. The Morrison County Sheriff's Office says the incident happened on Saturday at about 1:20pm on Sage Road, about five miles southeast of Hillman. Nineteen-year-old Dylan Batien of Milaca was diving a side-by-side on Sage Road, traveling about 40 miles an hour.  Nineteen-year-old passenger Izabella Roffe of Milaca fell out of the side-by-side while it was moving and suffered severe injuries.  Roffe was not wearing a seatbelt or helmet. She was airlifted to North Memorial Hospital by North Air Care.

A traffic accident in Sartell has caused widespread service outages across the city. According to a Facebook post from the Sartell Public Safety Department, the crash occurred earlier this afternoon at the intersection of 2nd Street South and County Road 78. Reports indicate the intersection’s stoplight was struck, rendering it nonfunctional. The department said it may take a while to fix because the signal is county-operated. The collision has also disrupted phone and internet services throughout the city, including in the Sartell school district, which reported its phone lines are down. Utility crews are on scene assessing and repairing damage and are expected to remain for several hours. Drivers are encouraged to seek an alternate route. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

A homeless man from St. Cloud has pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced for having child sexual abuse material. A Stearns County judge sentenced 45-year-old Matthew Monson to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to four counts of possessing child sexual abuse material while being a registered predatory offender. Nine other counts were dismissed at the settlement conference and sentencing. Monson also pleaded guilty to a different charge for failing to fulfill registration requirements as a predatory offender. His sentence on that charge will be served at the same time as his child pornography sentence. According to the charges, Google flagged several images and videos of child sexual abuse material coming from two IP addresses at a Holdingford rehabilitation center. Court records show Monson lived at the facility and is linked to a customer "cloud storage" account where the images were stored. An investigator with the Stearns County Sheriff's Office met with Monson in January and confiscated his phone. The officer conducted an extraction on Monson's phone and allegedly found more than 1000 images and videos involving the sexual exploitation of children.

A reminder that area school buses are back out this morning as many students still have a few days left of school this week with most of the public schools...

Today is Memorial Day, Monday May 25th a Federal holiday with many offices closed including all federal agencies, government centers, city halls, court houses, banks, financial institutions, post offices (no...

A 15-year-old girl from Rice was hurt when she crashed her dirt bike on Wednesday. The incident happened just after 5:30 p.m. on 450th Street in Two Rivers Township, about...

Authorities in Crow Wing County have contained the large wildfire around Crosslake but are asking the public for help gathering evidence in the Flanders Fire. The fire was reported on Saturday,...