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VESTA – The 15-year-old Redwood County girl missing from her family’s home was located in a cornfield near her residence around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday by officers flying a State Patrol helicopter. According to Redwood County Sheriff Randy Hanson, Paulina Leach appeared to be...

MADISON — A male juvenile was arrested after an 8-hour armed standoff with law enforcement Monday in rural Lac qui Parle County. According to a news release from County Sheriff Rick Halvorson, officers were investigating a report that Kevin Ernest Morris, 40, of rural Dawson,...

WILLMAR -- Rene Rivera III, 17, of Willmar, pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge of property damage, plus misdemeanor counts of fleeing a peace officer and underage consumption, for his role in shooting out house and vehicle windows with a BB-gun in May. A felony charge for discharging...

WILLMAR -- Two juvenile males, ages 17 and 13, were caught by Willmar Police shortly after the teens allegedly fired several shots from a CO2-powered pellet handgun at homes along the 500 block of Robbins Avenue Southwest. According to a news release from Police Sgt. Michael Anderson,...

WILLMAR -- An 18-year-old who absconded in February from the Prairie Lakes juvenile detention facility, where he was serving time for a crime spree last year that included arson, burglary and theft, was ordered today to the Kandiyohi County Jail. Andrew Charles Wyman will be held...

WILLMAR -- A review hearing for Andrew Charles Wyman, 18, of Willmar, was cancelled this afternoon after he failed to appear before District Judge Kathryn N. Smith in Kandiyohi County District Court. Wyman, who has a warrant issued for his arrest, absconded from Prairie Lakes Youth...

WILLMAR -- The Kandiyohi County Sheriff's office wants citizens to contact law enforcement if they see two 14-year-old girls who are runaways from a Benson juvenile facility. The girls were last seen around 10:30 a.m. in the downtown Willmar area, around the Willmar Public Library,...

WILLMAR -- A 16-year-old Willmar teen was sentenced Tuesday to six months of probation, 40 hours of community service and 12 days at Prairie Lakes Detention Center on felony charges of receiving stolen property and fifth-degree drug possession for possessing a stolen pistol and khat...

WILLMAR -- A 16-year-old Willmar boy pleaded not guilty Monday to three felony charges for allegedly possessing a stolen pistol and khat that were found in a vehicle searched Friday afternoon by CEE-VI Drug Task Force agents. Simon Torres III entered the pleas to charges of receiving...

WILLMAR -- A 17-year old Willmar boy was charged Friday with 15 criminal counts for his alleged role in a two-week crime spree that included a fire earlier this week that left a Willmar family homeless. During an initial appearance as a juvenile in Kandiyohi County District Court,...

WILLMAR -- A 17-year old Willmar boy faces 15 charges for his alleged role in a two-week crime spree. Most of the charges against Andrew Wyman, including a charge of arson in the first degree that left a family homeless, are felonies. During an initial court appearance this morning,...