A woman from Pipestone was sentenced to more than eight years in prison this week, after cutting an infant’s face with a pizza cutter at a Rochester day care center last year. In June, a jury found Andrianna Qwanae Newburn, 27, guilty of seven charges, including first degree assault and ...

CLARKFIELD — A man died when a skid loader slid into a drainage ditch Wednesday in rural Clarkfield, the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office said. The body of Dustin Lucius Virkus, 51, of Clarkfield was recovered from the skid loader, which was submerged in the ditch. Around 1:40 ...

MARSHALL — With the new school year’s start just days away, several Southwest Minnesota State University students and faculty were on campus Thursday to welcome and help move-in the next incoming class into their dorms. Upon arriving on campus, incoming freshmen and their families were ...

news@marshallindependent.com FAIRMONT — Today is the 60th anniversary of The Beatles’ lone visit to Minnesota, at the Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington on Aug. 21, 1965. One Fairmont resident, Deeanne Helfritz, was there to witness it at 15 years of age. She said she had heard about ...

MARSHALL — For the second time this summer, Lyon County commissioners declared a state of emergency in response to severe storms. On Tuesday, commissioners passed a declaration, related to wind damage and flash flooding over the weekend. “That would be the first step in helping these ...

MARSHALL — Plans for the Box Car Wind energy project in Lyon and Murray Counties are still moving forward, representatives of Apex Clean Energy told Lyon County commissioners this week. Company representatives said the wind 1,000-megawatt project is in the design phase this year, and will ...