Highway 10 Ramps Now Open

Good news for drivers, as an exit ramp to Little Falls has reopened. The Minnesota Department of Transportation has completed repairs on the bridge over Highway 10 at the Haven Road exit. The bridge was damaged late last year when a semi-truck struck the overpass. The damage prompted MnDOT to close the Highway 10 exit ramp on the south end of Little Falls until repairs could be completed. Crews were able to use heat to straighten the damaged steel frame earlier this spring and have now finished installing custom-fabricated steel plates. The plates are used to reinforce the damaged girder and diaphragms. The completed repairs mean drivers can return to using the westbound Highway 10 exit to Haven Road.

Tweo Vehicle Crash

There was a two-vehicle collision in Pierz early Thursday morning. The Minnesota State Patrol says the incident happened at about 6:40 a.m. at the intersection of Highway 25 and County Road 39/3rd Avenue North.   Troopers say a Chevy Suburban being driven by 34-year-old Lucas Nickoboine of Onamia was traveling west on 3rd Avenue North.  A Toyota Rav4, being driven by 53-year-old Robert Matlock, was going north on Highway 25. The Suburban ran the stop sign and collided with the Rav4.  The Suburban came to a rest on Highway 25 on the sidewalk.   The Rav4 came to a rest in the liquor store on 3rd Street. Nickaboine and his passenger, 31-year-old Matthew Mitchell of Onamia, both had non-life-threatening injuries.  Matlock was taken to St. Gabriel's Hospital in Little Falls with non-life-threatening injuries.

Two Vehicle Crash

Homeless Man Sentenced For Child Porn

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. Court records show Monson's criminal history includes two convictions for criminal sexual conduct in both Stearns County and Roberts County, South Dakota.

One Vehicle Rollover

A Randall man was injured after rolling his SUV on Saturday morning. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office says they received a call around 10:40 a.m. about a crash near the address of 35733 County Road 10 in Albany Township. The Sheriff's Department says when they arrived, the driver of the SUV, 43-year-old Michael Ninow Jr.of Randall, told them that he had served to miss a deer and then went into the ditch, struck a driveway, and rolled the vehicle. Ninow sustained minor injuries. Albany Fire & Rescue and Melrose Ambulance assisted.