An Austin woman is dead and a suspect is in custody after a fatal hit-and-run accident in southeast Austin late Friday evening. Officers responded just before midnight to a report of a person lying in the roadway on Oakland Place SE and found Melissa Rack not breathing. The 41-year old was pronounced dead at the … Read more
A Morristown woman has been sentenced to 10 months in the Steele County Detention Center in connection to 2021 theft charges. Beth Allison Lamont, 36, pleaded guilty in October to felony theft after she stole $50,000 from Casey’s Gas Station where she worked, between June 2021 and December 2021, according to the criminal complaint. -0-
ALBERT LEA, Minn. – An Albert Lea woman accepted a plea deal in connection to an undercover drug bust this spring. Delyla Carlina Jarvis, 21, was charged with a first-degree controlled substance crime, which is punishable in Minnesota by up to 30 years in prison, stemming from a search of her Albert Lea home where … Read more
A man charged with stabbing three people in May at an apartment complex in Albert Lea was charged in Freeborn County District Court on Wednesday with stabbing one inmate and attempting to stab another in December in the Freeborn County jail. CK Kyle Kasio, 27, faces additional charges stemming from the Dec. 16 involving a … Read more
[ne/albert lea] Police in neighboring Rochester, just NE of Albert Lea are investigating after a man was found dead in a park Tuesday morning. Officers arrived at Manor Park for a welfare check and found the body of a 20-year-old man lying against a building near the hockey rink just before 8 a.m. Authorities believe … Read more
(ABC 6 News) – During their first meeting of 2023 the Albert Lea city council approved hiring outside council. Instead of having a city attorney on staff like in years past, the council voted this week [mon.] to contract with a legal firm from Whitebear lake in an effort to save the city money, officials … Read more
BATH TOWNSHIP, Minn. – One person was hospitalized in a semi rollover crash in Freeborn County over night. The Minnesota State Patrol says Gulled Maxamed Shill, 48 of Savage, was northbound on Interstate 35 when his semi overturned near mile marker 20. The 48 year old was taken to Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea for … Read more
JANESVILLE, Minn. (KEYC) [waseca county] – Students and staff at a Waseca County school had to shelter in place following a threat. A heavy police presence could be seen Tuesday [Jan. 10] at the Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton school which went into lockdown, following threatening images students were air-dropping to each other, police said. This is a developing … Read more
MASON CITY, Iowa [s/albert lea] – The suspect arrested in a 2022 shooting just south of Albert lea in Mason City is pleading not guilty. Stephen Allen Tidemanson, 24, is charged with attempted murder in connection to the incident in which he and another person got into a fight just after Thanksgiving [November 28], on … Read more
The question of who will be Sheriff Jay Dulas’ chief deputy has been answered. The chief deputy at the time of the Nov. election for sheriff was Dulas’ opponent. But, the current city administrator in New Richland, submitted a resignation letter to the City Council at an emergency Jan. 3 meeting, where he announced he … Read more