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The Wadena County Sheriff’s Office responded to a two-vehicle crash shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of County Roads 23 and 9 in Rockwood Township.

Two people are dead after what police are calling homicides in rural Perham. According to a press release from the Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the residence at 5:17 a.m. this morning (Tuesday) on a reported assault. The release states that when they arrived,...

A man reaching for a dropped cell phone crashed on Highway 29 Sunday afternoon. The man, identified as Jonathan Beau Haase, 34, Williston, N.D., was driving southbound on Highway 29 in the area of 260th St. when he reached for his cell phone on the floor of his vehicle. The vehicle...

March 29 • When a deputy stopped a driver for speeding he produced a German driver's license which the deputy was unable to read or run. The deputy issued him a warning. March 31 • A domestic incident involving one male head-butting another was reported but the caller was very...

It's only been about a year since Ross Olson recalls the Bell Hill Recovery Center near Wadena was connected to broadband internet through West Central Telephone Association (WCTA). Just last fall, he finally was connected to broadband at home as well. "I've gotten so used to it,"...

April 3 • Joseph Lee Swain, 28, of Hewitt, was arrested on a Stearns County warrant. Swain was booked into the Wadena County Jail. April 5 • Amanda Rae Leeper, 25, of Wadena, was arrested for domestic assault. Leeper was transported to the Morrison County Jail. The Wadena Police...