accidents

A head-on collision on state Highway 32 killed a teenage boy from Fertile on Tuesday afternoon, the State Patrol said. Cody W. Christianson, 16, was southbound in a Mitsubishi Montero Sport when the SUV crossed the centerline and crashed into a Freightliner semi, the patrol said. The...

A rural Parkers Prairie man heard what sounded like a crop-dusting plane with engine trouble about 6:25 p.m. Wednesday, followed by a loud crash. When Gayle Snook went out to investigate, he discovered the wreckage of a plane in some trees about 90 yards from his home. Otter Tail...

Snowfall on Valentine's Day resulted in slick roadways throughout the area once again, resulting in many minor traffic accidents that day and the next. While most of the mishaps reported involved vehicles in ditches or other minor fender benders, the Otter Tail County Sheriff's Department...

A Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed Friday morning between Dent and Vergas. All train cars were upright and no injuries were reported, according to the Otter Tail County Sheriff's Department. Officials with Canadian Pacific said the tanker cars were empty, though they had...

MILAN, Minn. -- A Granite Falls, Minn., man was killed early Monday morning when a truck carrying an oversized load struck an overhead railroad bridge, causing the load to smash into the man's car. George J. Piasecki, 61, was killed when the load came off a semitrailer on Minnesota...

WARREN, Minn. - A Warren man missing for perhaps a week was found dead Thursday morning, apparently from exposure to the cold, only a quarter-mile from his rural home. It isn't known yet how long his body had been lying there, about 11 miles east of Warren, said Jim Duckstad, manager...

Four people were injured in a two-car accident at an uncontrolled intersection in Perham on Monday afternoon. According to the Perham Police Department, two juveniles and two adults were taken by ambulance to Perham Health with unspecified injuries. One juvenile refused treatment...