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27-Aug-2026

Anterless Deer Permits

A deadline is approaching for deer hunters who want to harvest antlerless deer in deer permit areas with a lottery system. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is reminding those firearms and muzzleloader hunters that they must buy their licenses by September 10th. The license holders will automatically be entered into the lottery for the deer permit area they declare. Applicants who are successful will receive a postcard in the mail from the DNR to use in conjunction with their regular license in the antlerless permit lottery area. No application is needed in deer permit areas with either sex, two-deer limit, three-deer limit, or five-deer limit designations. A new provision this year allows hunters to apply for both the antlerless permit lottery and special hunts. In the past, hunters were only allowed to apply to one or the other.

 

 

 

 

 

27-Aug-2026

Fatal Car/Train Crash

One person was killed early on Aug. 25 when a vehicle and a freight train collided near Highway 210 and West Gull River Road, according to Pillager Area Fire & Rescue. Crews were paged to the scene at 6:27 a.m. A firefighter arrived within a minute and found the vehicle resting on the south side of the tracks and the westbound train stopped, the department said in a statement. The vehicle had been traveling from south to north, attempting to cross the tracks toward Highway 210, when it was struck by the train. The lone occupant was reached by a firefighter who crawled under the stopped train to get to the other side, but the driver did not survive, officials said. Pillager Area Fire & Rescue thanked the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, North Memorial Ambulance, BNSF Railway, Collins Brothers Towing, the Minnesota State Patrol and Brenny Funeral Home for their work at the scene..

27-Aug-2026

New Princess Kay

Jena Hanson was crowned the 73rd Princess Kay of the Milky Way on Wednesday.20 year old Hanson, from Owatonna, will serve as the official goodwill ambassador for the Minnesota dairy industry and families for the next year.   Princesses are chosen based on personality and knowledge of the dairy community. Hanson was chosen out of 10 county dairy princesses who made it to the State Fair competition. Isabella Schiffler and Jaiden Smith, both of Stearns County, were selected as runners-up. For her first official duty as Princess Kay, Hanson will sit in a cooler on the fairgrounds Thursday and Friday while her likeness is sculpted in butter.  Other finalists will also have their likeness turned into a butter sculpture throughout the fair. Hanson is currently studying at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

 

 

 

26-Aug-2026

Fatal Car/Train Accident

A 37-year-old Brainerd man died when the car he was driving collided with a train Tuesday morning. The Minnesota State Patrol is not releasing the name of the victim until sometime today, but they say the crash happened west of Baxter in Sylvan Township, located in Cass County, around 6:30 a.m. The State Patrol says the man’s car struck a train on West Gull River Road SW. The victim was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. No other information is available at this time.

26-Aug-2026

Manslaughter Charge

A Brainerd man is charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of a co-worker at an Apple Valley worksite. Prosecutors say Christopher Boone Crimmins was operating a hydraulic grapple on August 20th when it struck and killed 26-year-old Tyler Anthony Lynch of Royalton. According to the criminal complaint, Crimmins was maneuvering the grapple so its shadow appeared to grab Lynch and was watching the shadows instead of Lynch when the fatal injury occurred. Crimmins is scheduled to appear in court on September 10th.

26-Aug-2026

Pickup/Semi Crash

A pickup driver was hurt when his vehicle rear-ended a semi. The Minnesota State Patrol says the incident happened on Monday just before 9:00 a.m. on Highway 23 near Milaca in Mille Lacs County. The semi was eastbound on the highway, turning left onto 1st Street Southeast, when the pickup struck the back of the semi's trailer .The pickup driver, 21-year-old Preston Johnson of Danvers, was taken to North Memorial in Robbinsdale with non-life-threatening injuries. The semi driver, 23-year-old Cody Pappenfus of Bowlus, was not hurt.