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Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) – A Minneapolis man suffered an accidental gunshot wound while hunting in Becker County on Sunday morning.
According to the Becker County Sheriff’s Office, on Nov. 5 at 11:33 a.m., 40-year-old Jeremy Nicholas Sailor of Minneapolis was hunting in a rural wooded portion of Forest Township when he was accidentally shot by his hunting partner.
Sailor’s hunting partner was reportedly checking to ensure that his firearm was unloaded when it discharged, striking Sailor in the leg.
Sailor was transported via private vehicle to a nearby medical center when the vehicle broke down. First responders then located the stranded vehicle and finished transporting Sailor to Sanford Hospital in Bemidji for treatment of a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
Law enforcement believes the incident to be accidental and no further investigation is needed.
Members of the Detroit Mountain ski patrol were recognized by the National Ski Patrol Association during their annual regional conference.
The Mountain received the Western Region’s Outstanding Medium Alpine Patrol Award during the conference, while a local patroller, Brandon Morley, received the region’s Outstanding Bike Patroller award.
Additionally, Detroit Mountain patrollers Matt Anderson and Lee Massey received Outstanding Service Awards during the event.
The National Ski Patrol operates 21 different patrols in the Western Region throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota.
According to the news release, Detroit Mountain is one of only three ski areas in the region that offers downhill mountain biking trails with chair lift service, a bike patrol rescue team and emergency medical care services.
The Mountain has a roster of nearly 50 active patrollers whose mission is to provide quality outdoor emergency care, winter and summer rescue, incident prevention services, and skier/snowboarder/biker education.
Three juvenile males needed to be rescued by first responders after their boat capsized on Rush Lake early Saturday morning.
On Nov. 4 at 6:37 a.m., Otter Tail County emergency dispatchers received a report of a capsized boat on Rush Lake with three juvenile males clinging to the top of the boat.
Multiple agencies from Otter Tail County, Ottertail and Perham responded to the scene.
A 17-year-old male, a 16-year-old male and a 15-year-old male, all from Princeton, Minn., were rescued from the water and treated by medical personnel on-scene for mild cases of hypothermia.
A preliminary crash report stated the boys were travelling across the lake to go duck hunting. Two of the three were wearing lifejackets when the boat capsized. The boat and most of the items in the boat were later recovered and removed from the lake.
Law enforcement have not been able to make a determination as to the cause of the vessel capsizing.
Three people were injured in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of 295th Avenue and 100th Street in rural Otter Tail County, west of Ashby, Minn., on Friday afternoon.
On Nov. 3 at 2:10 p.m., a 2008 Buick Enclave, driven by 46-year-old Natalie Rund-Rieppel of Fergus Falls, was westbound on 100th Street with a passenger, 85-year-old Jean Rund of Fergus Falls, when it collided with a northbound 2006 Ford pickup, driven by 20-year-old Colton Lindquist of Ashby, that reportedly failed to yield at the intersection.
Both Rund-Rieppel and Rund were transported to a nearby medical center in Elbow Lake for treatment and Lindquist was transported via a private vehicle to a nearby medical center for treatment of unknown injuries.
The damage from both vehicles totaled over $1,000.
All three vehicle occupants were wearing their seatbelts at the time of the collision and the incident remains under an active investigation by the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office.
Douglas County authorities say a hunter was airlifted to St. Cloud Hospital after falling from his deer stand Saturday afternoon in Carlos Township north of Alexandria.
Sixty-five-year-old Douglas Karsky of Alexandria fell about 10 feet and was on the ground for about an hour prior to the emergency call.
Karsky was experiencing back pain and was treated in the woods by Carlos First Responders and North Ambulance medics before being airlifted to the hospital.
A district judge has ruled that a woman who sued the West Fargo VFW and a man she accused of rape must collect any judgment from the VFW club’s insurance provider.
In August 2019, the woman was drinking at the VFW with Bruce Clayton McCartney. The woman said she didn’t know McCartney, who lived in an apartment above the club.
Because of her intoxicated state, employees at the VFW helped McCartney get the woman to his apartment by wheeling her in a chair.
McCartney later pleaded guilty to sexual assault and spent just over two years in prison.
In an order for judgement filed last week, lawyers representing the West Fargo VFW agreed the woman should be paid $150,000. As part of the agreement, the woman is to seek the damages from the bar’s insurance company instead of the bar itself.
The West Fargo VFW also agreed to be declared negligent in the case, although they still deny liability in the incident.
Secura Insurance Co. has denied the West Fargo VFW coverage for the sexual assault lawsuit.
Nearly 30,000 pounds of Tyson Foods brand Fun Nuggets are under recall after consumers complained of finding metal pieces in the items.
The recall specifically affects the dinosaur shaped patties sold in 29 ounce bags produced on September 5th. They carry the Best If Used By date of SEP 04, 2024, and lot codes: 2483BRV0207, 2483BRV0208, 2483BRV0209 and 2483BRV0210.
The company informed the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and issued the recall out of an abundance of caution.
One report of a “minor oral injury” is associated with the dinosaur-shaped nuggets.
The nuggets subject to the recall carry the number P7211 on the back of the package.
The USDA urged consumers with the nuggets in their freezers to throw them out or return them to the place of purchase.
Story by Jennifer Lewerenz / KNSI
A new monument in Moorhead honors a Black civil war veteran.
Felix Battles joined the Union army at Fort Snelling in 1864. After the war he settled in Moorhead and worked as a barber until his death in 1907.
The monument is set on the campus of Minnesota State University Moorhead and is just feet from where the house in which the Battles lived once stood.
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County program director Markus Krueger said the monument could be a social gathering space, or just a space to sit and contemplate.
Krueger said, quote: “Putting yourself in a place where history happened, even if the history that happened was a barber raised a family here.”
He added there are few Civil War monuments that honor colored troops and there were 209,000 African-American soldiers and sailors who helped win the Civil War.
With Daylight Saving Time shelved until next spring, lakes area residents lost an hour of sunlight.
According to health experts, sunlight is important because it delivers vitamins and provides an overall mood boost to an individual.
Not everyone handles winter days well and it is sometimes diagnosed as seasonal affective disorder.
CentraCare sleep expert and psychologist Jennifer Miller says light therapy can work to best brighten people’s spirits.
Miller said: “You can use this lightbox by you. You can put it off to the side so it’s kind of in your peripheral vision for about 20 to 30 minutes when you first wake up in the morning, and that sometimes can kind of trick your brain into going, ‘Oh, it actually is daytime.’”
In the summer, central Minnesota gets about 15 hours of daylight. By late December, that total dwindles to under nine hours. The shortest day of the year will be December 21st with the official solstice occurring at 7:27 p.m. that night.
Miller says all of us are affected in some way by seasonal affective disorder.
She added: “How the symptoms look for people can vary. A lot of times, it can be very mild, and people just notice I don’t have good motivation, my sleep is crappy, my mood is crappy…I’m tired all the time.”
Miller says seasonal affective disorder and seasonal stress from hosting family or completing holiday shopping can look similar.
She says SAD lasts for about two months, usually from mid-November until mid-January.
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