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Strong to severe thunderstorms rock central Minnesota early Wednesday morning between 12-5am. Trees were uprooted near Royalton, estimated at 60 to 70 miles per hour were reported in the region, one of the trees reported fell on and severely damaged a house in the 100 block of Aspen Street in Royalton. Some signs were ripped up and tossed from the strong winds and heavy rains overnight. Many were out surveying the damage after sunrise on Wednesday morning. Powers outages were reported throughout the day in Royalton, more in Agram Township, northwest of Little Falls toward Camp Ripley, Long Prairie to Bertha, Wadena and Otter Tail Counties had outages, Minnesota Power at 2:50pm Wednesday still reported around 50 customers without power in their electric zone. Xcel Energy reported over 54,000 at one point overnight in the state for their customers, hundreds will without power by mid-afternoon Wednesday. 

The Morrison County Sheriff’s Office reports that on 6-10-2026 at approximately 1:34am their office received a report of a motorcycle accident on Highway 10 near 83rd Street, approximately three miles north of Royalton in Bellevue Township. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the driver of the motorcycle, 60-year-old Dale Larsen of Little Falls, MN was traveling on Highway 10 north of Royalton when he struck a deer with his motorcycle. Larsen was transported to St. Gabriel’s Hospital by Mayo Clinic Ambulance with unknown injuries.

A Semi-Truck went off Interstate 94 in Douglas County around 2:30am Wednesday morning. 35-year-old Gill Singh of Winnipeg, Manitoba was driving a semi pulling a trailer near Brandon when he veered off the road and rolled the vehicle. Singh and 33-year-old Lehal Maninder of Winnipeg were both taken to Alomere Hospital for treatment of non life threatening injuries. 

A St. Cloud man is charged with trafficking a woman for sex and taking the profits for nearly a year. According to the criminal complaint filed in Stearns County District Court, 35-year-old Trinnis Campbell actively promoted, facilitated, monitored, directed, and profited from the woman's prostitution. An investigator with the Central Minnesota Human Trafficking Task Force met with the victim in December after she was arrested in St. Joseph. The investigator was familiar with the woman from previous human trafficking investigations. Police say the victim agreed to allow authorities to search her phone, where they say more than 6,500 messages were exchanged between her and Campbell between January and December 2025. Court records allege the messages contained conversations about advertising, payments, transportation, and appointments. The investigation allegedly revealed numerous electronic fund transfers from the victim to Campbell using CashApp, Apple Cash, Venmo, and other financial platforms. Investigators say the transfers routinely occurred immediately after prostitution encounters or discussions regarding sex buyers. In a follow-up interview with the woman, she allegedly told investigators that she hosted numerous sex encounters in Campbell's garage, gave all of the money she made through prostitution to Campbell, and commonly directed sex buyers to send payments directly to him. The victim said Campbell received substantial proceeds from her during that time. Campbell is charged with soliciting a person to practice prostitution, promoting the prostitution of a person, receiving profits from prostitution, and engaging in the sex trafficking of a person.  His next court appearance is scheduled for July 14th.

The victim in a shooting in Fosston back on Monday afternoon has died. The Cass County, North Dakota Coroner’s Office says 31-year-old TeeJay Alvarez of Fosston died this morning as a result of injuries from a gunshot wound. The suspected shooter, 22-year-old Cory Burnette Jr. of Fosston, was arrested without incident on Monday. Burnette has been booked into the Northwest Regional Correctional Center in Crookston on probable cause second-degree assault and discharge of a firearm. Formal charges are pending. The incident happened at an apartment complex on the 300 block of Mark Avenue in Fosston.

Another reminder from Public Works that a lot of road work is going on this week around Morrison County and beyond. There are posted speed limits in these work areas, including a reminder for those using County Road 76 Haven Road north of Little Falls that speeds are to be 30mph through the work zones and that goes for other work zones in the county, they are reminding motorists that speeding fines double and if close calls occur could even be more if caught speeding in those areas. Work is scheduled to continue through mid August for the project on the north end of Little Falls. 

Death Notices: Archie Doroff, age 86 of Little Falls passed away June 4th. 

Weather: Thursday partly cloudy skies, showers and thunderstorms possible midday, high 72 and windy. Showers early Thursday night then clearing low around 51. Sunny and very breezy on Friday, high 76, winds gusting to 30mph or higher. Showers Friday evening then clearing low 53. Sunny and mild Saturday still very breezy, high 71, low 48 with winds again gusting 20-35mph. Sunny and less windy Sunday, still cool, high 67, clear Sunday night low 47. Monday and Tuesday chance of showers, highs around 72. 

Sports: Twins wrap up at Detroit at 12:10pm Thursday. State High School Baseball Tournament begins Thursday with Class A in St. Cloud, Class AA with St. Cloud Cathedral in St. Cloud, Class AAA with Rocori in Chaska and Class 4A in St. Paul. Championships at Target Field on Monday. State Golf wrapping up on Wednesday get results Thursday morning on Little Falls Radio and online at fallsradio.com. 

KSTP TV had part 2 of the their investigation story last night on Oakland Cemetery in Little Falls. The link to their 2nd part of the story is here https://kstp.com/5-investigates/little-falls-cemetery-complaints-spur-calls-for-investigation/....

Last night on KSTP TV News they investigated Oakland Cemetery in Little Falls the story uncovered dead board members, a big raise for the cemetery’s caretaker and an attempt to...

The Morrison County Sheriff’s Office Saturday morning shared that Douglas County was searching for Endangered Missing Person. The sheriff's office was asking all residents to please keep an eye out...

One person was injured in a one vehicle accident Thursday around 1:08pm in Lastrup of Morrison County. 86-year-old Sharon Schlegel was on Highway 27 at Pine Street when she hit...