A young Palisade woman was seriously injured in a car crash last Thursday. Sarah Jean Curtiss, a 2019 Aitkin High graduate and current University of Minnesota-Morris senior, was driving southbound on Highway 9 in Swift county when she collided with a car and a semi headed northbound. According to a report from the Minnesota State…
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The Morrison County Sheriff’s Office reports that on 1-12-2023 at approximately 4:25 pm, their office received a report of a one-vehicle accident at the intersection of Haven Road and 183rd Street, approximately two miles north of Little Falls, MN in Belle Prairie Township. According to the Sheriff’s Office, 45-year-old Garrett Cekalla from Brainerd, MN was…
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Gary Lynn Rognrud was identified as the 83-year-old Palisade man who died in a crash Jan. 10 just west of McGregor. The Minnesota State Patrol reported the crash at about 9 a.m. Rognrud was eastbound on Highway 210 near 257th Avenue in his pickup when he lost control and collided with a box truck traveling west. Rognrud…
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A 58-year-old man died in a vehicle crash Tuesday in Aitkin County. The Minnesota State Patrol reported the crash at 8:48 a.m. on Highway 65 in McGrath. Edward McCoy Casterlow was northbound on Highway 65 in a semitrailer, when the vehicle left the road and rolled into the ditch, coming to a rest on its passenger…
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A 10-year-old Brainerd girl was injured in a crash with a semitrailer Monday in Baxter. The Minnesota State Patrol reported the crash at around 3p.m. A semitrailer, driven by 48-year-old Scottie G. Mishler of Garden City, Kansas, was in the turnaround of Highway 371 and Birchdale Road, partially blocking lanes of traffic, when it was…
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Minnesota State Patrol Captain Adam Fulton of the Baxter/Brainerd District talked to us about some prevention measures to keep drinking and driving incidents from occurring. A new program called Better Bar Safe Rides can help mitigate those increases: Baxter police chief Matt Meier set that program up. The program could use some extra funding, of…
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The Minnesota State Patrol responded to an incident involving an injury on Tuesday evening just outside of Aitkin. 70 year old Richard Wayne Clemons of Palisade was southbound on highway 169 in Spencer Township, just east of Aitkin in Aitkin county, on December 27th. He pulled his 1992 Ford Econoline motor home onto the side…
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Minnesota State Patrol Captain Adam Fulton joined the show to give updates on DWI Enforcement, Winter Driving Safety, Crash/Incident Numbers for 2022:
RELEASE FROM MORRISON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE: The Morrison County Sheriff’s Office reports that on 12-5-2022 at approximately 6:37 am, their office received a report of a one-vehicle accident with injuries at the intersection of Nature Road and 355th Avenue, approximately ten miles southeast of Buckman, MN in Morrill Township. According to the Sheriff’s Office, 42-year-old…
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A crash on Highway 169 in Aitkin Co. sent an 81 y/o woman to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The Minnesota State Patrol responded to the crash, which was reported at 7:25 am on Tuesday, November 22nd. Christine Ann Schneider, 38, was traveling south on Highway 169 in a 2013 Cadillac ATS . Judith Anne Matthias,…
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