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Lyon Co. to increase jail service rates

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MARSHALL — Starting next year, it will cost more for Murray County to house jail inmates at the Lyon County Jail. On Tuesday, Lyon County Commissioners approved a proposal from Sheriff Eric Wallen to increase the jail service fees to $125 per day in 2027, and to $175 per day in 2028. “I was asked to review our contract with Murray County for the housing of their inmates in our jail,” Wallen told county commissioners. “The (Lyon) county’s cost of housing inmates in our jail is, per day, significantly higher than what we’ve been charging Murray County, so we’d look to ...

Zimmerman to plead guilty in Hanska double-murder

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NEW ULM – Randy Zimmerman entered a petition to plead guilty in the double-murder of Justin Reinarts and Tabitha Trescott on Monday. A grand jury formally indicted Zimmerman back in November with first-degree murder in the Nov. 2 deaths of Reinarts and Trescott. He was charged with breaking into the Hanska home of Reinarts and fatally shooting Reinarts and Trescott in the bedroom before fleeing. He was arrested in Louisa County, Iowa, and later indicted by a grand jury on counts of first-degree premeditated murder. Court records indicate Zimmerman had a history of domestic assault ...

Balaton man pleads guilty to criminal sexual conduct

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MARSHALL — A Balaton man pleaded guilty in Lyon County District Court Tuesday to charges of criminal sexual conduct. Ethan Lennen Nelson, 36, said in a hearing that he was taking “full responsibility” for having sexual contact with minor victims while he was a youth group leader at a Balaton church. Under a plea agreement, Nelson will serve 120 days in jail and complete seven years of probation with conditions, including that he not have contact with the victims in his case and that he not have unsupervised contact with minors outside his own family. Nelson pleaded guilty to ...

Friendships, laughter keeps them pedaling

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MARSHALL — Jan Louwagie, one of the founding members of the Trail Travelers Bike Club, recalls going to a campground in Walker with everyone. They spent hours around a table playing cards and laughing. She remembers at one point the hostess came to see if they needed anything, but everyone ...

Sinking AI stocks pull Wall Street further from its record

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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street pulled further from its all-time high on Tuesday as AI stocks got back to sinking. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% for a third straight modest loss since setting its all-time high on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 116 points, or 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1.3%. Leading the way lower were stocks that have been big winners in the boom around artificial-intelligence technology. They've been veering up and down this summer on worries that their prices shot too high in the AI frenzy and that the strong demand for memory, processors and other ...