(ABC 6 News) – Austin residents in need are getting a helping hand ahead of the holidays. The Austin Plant, the local manufacturing facility owned by Hormel Foods Corporation announced Thursday that it has donated $10,000 to Hot Meals on Wheels to help fight hunger in the community as part of the company’s Hunger Action … Read more
ABC 6 News) – An Austin assisted living facility is facing allegations of misconduct. South Grove Lodge formerly known as Primrose Retirement community in Austin is accused of mistreatment, altering documents, and a long list of errors when administering medication. The accusations follow a change in management and ownership, with many family members of loved … Read more
You could soon be seeing another stimulus check in your account. During the 2022 midterm election last week, Minnesota’s Democrat Farm Labor Party (DFL) scored the elusive trifecta: DFL Gov. Tim Walz won reelection, the DFL retained its majority in the Minnesota House and the DFL also won a majority in the Minnesota Senate, givingMinnesotans … Read more
An Austin man facing a felony escape from custody charge in Mower County District Court is going back to prison. 31-year old Christopher Nathaniel Easley was convicted and sentenced Thursday to 21 months in prison, stemming from an incident that took place on March 14. Easley, who failed to appear at a hearing on the … Read more
There were over 500 accidents reported on slick roads across Minnesota Monday. Minnesota State Patrol says there were 566 crashes reported statewide between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. Monday, including one in which a 57-year-old man was killed after he lost control of his vehicle, struck a concrete wall then collided with a school bus … Read more
Slippery travel conditions likely contributed to a deadly traffic crash in southeastern Minnesota Tuesday morning. The State Patrol says a 63-year-old man was killed after his car collided with a pickup truck along Highway 52 in Fillmore County east of Canton and about a mile from the Iowa border. The driver of the pickup was … Read more
Tips from concerned citizens about drug activity in their community helped lead to the arrest of a Waseca man. Logan Isaiah Maxon is facing felony drug charges after the 20 year old was reportedly arrested selling drugs out of his vehicle at Clear Lake Park for roughly a year. He was charged last week in … Read more
A New Richland man is facing felony charges in connection to a domestic assault involving a child. Multiple police departments responded on Nov. 5 to a home where Dylan Delbert Grossell, 30, had allegedly punched a juvenile in the face, and when a man intervened, Grossell hit him in the back of the head with … Read more
WASECA, Minn. (KEYC) – Police in Waseca say two people have been arrested following a shooting early Thursday morning. According to a release, just after midnight Thursday, police responded to a municipal parking lot between the Post Office and State Street and found a vehicle had been shot multiple times. Police say there were no … Read more
AUSTIN, Minn. – An Austin man accused of leading police on a cross-border chase in 2020 has been sentenced. A Mower County judge ordered, Weston William Zuehl to three years of supervised probation after he pleaded guilty to fleeing a peace officer on April 20, 2020, following an attempted traffic stop on Highway 218 near … Read more