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100 miles for mental health

MARSHALL — Hope Harbor Executive Director Chad Doyle will walk 100 miles from his home in Sioux Falls to Marshall on Sept. 17 to get the word out and gather donations for the organization. Hope Harbor is a nonprofit founded in Marshall in 2005. According to Doyle,The organization works to ...

PowerOn Midwest to host 2nd round of meetings

PowerOn Midwest will host a second and final round of public open house meetings from August 4-13 to discuss the 765kV transmission line being developed across southern Minnesota. There will be meetings in Lake Benton, Pipestone, Luverne, Slayton and Worthington. According to Xcel Energy Transmissions communication manager Randy Fordice, the project works to create a backbone of energy they expect to last in the southern Minnesota region for the coming decades. The project also keeps in mind the way energy is changing to a focus on solar and wind power while some of the older coal ...

Bruce St. reopening gets closer

MARSHALL — A busy Marshall intersection is getting closer to opening back up after construction, representatives of R and G Construction said. The intersection of Bruce Street and East College Drive could reopen at the end of next week. However, with rain in the forecast today and early ...

Microsoft's best day since 2008 leads US stocks, while inflation worries remain in the bond market

NEW YORK (AP) — A monster day for Microsoft's stock following signals that its big spending on AI is translating into profits led a powerful rebound on Wall Street Thursday, while computer-chip companies regained some of their sharp recent losses. In the bond market, though, worries remained about inflation potentially remaining high for years. The S&P 500 rallied 1.7% and more than recovered its drop from the day before, which was its worst in seven weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 613 points, or 1.2%. The Nasdaq composite, which is full of artificial-intelligence ...

Crime

MARSHALL — A 42-year-old man was arrested in a domestic incident at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday on the 1200 block of East College Drive, Marshall Police said. MARSHALL — Theft of copper wire and motors reported at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday on the 800 block of West Main Street is under investigation, Marshall Police said. Accidents GARVIN — A motorcyclist received serious injuries in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday near Garvin, the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office said. A 1995 Yamaha motorcycle driven by a 66-year-old man and a 2024 GMC Sierra driven by a 37-year-old man were involved in the ...