A 22-year-old Maple Grove woman was killed in a three-vehicle crash Sunday (June 30) near Cedar Mills.

The State Patrol has not released the name of the woman, pending notification of family. According to the State Patrol, she was eastbound on State Highway 7 in a 2006 Saturn Ion at about 3:50 p.m.

A local deputy’s heroism will be recounted Sunday night on the cable series “Crisis Point.” The episode airs 9 p.m., June 29, on TruTV (channel 103 on Hutchinson Telephone Co.’s cable service).

On June 18, 2007, McLeod County Sheriff’s Deputy Jennifer Mueller was dragged for about 20 to 25 feet on Highway 212, east of Stewart, by an escaping suspect’s vehicle. Mueller had stopped Jerry Dean Burt, of Olivia, after he earlier left the scene of a domestic assault.

An 18-year-old Silver Lake resident was one of four high school seniors involved in a fatal crash Wednesday night (May 28).

According to the State Patrol, Mitchell Bayerl of Silver Lake was in criticial condition after the two-vehicle crash, which occurred at about 6:11 p.m., at the intersection State Highway 55 and Wright County Road 6. A total of six people were injured and one — Madeysen Kleve, 18, of Howard Lake, was killed.

A 3-year-old Hutchinson girl who walked out the front door of her grandparents’ apartment around midnight was found early this morning (Wednesday, May 28.)

Hutchinson police said the girl, Bailey Delis, wandered away from the home in her pajamas in the 800 block of School Road Northwest. A McLeod County sheriff's deputy and a resident spotted the girl between two homes on Colorado Court at 7:01 a.m.

"We don't know exactly where she spent the night," Police Chief Dan Hatten said. "But she is perfectly fine."

A Hutchinson man was arrested in St. Cloud last Thursday after leading police on a high-speed chase.
A Stearn’s County deputy attempted to stop a 1991 Nissan Pathfinder, driven by Ronald Clayton Jensen, 45, near downtown St. Cloud when Jensen’s vehicle failed to pull over.

After leading police on a several-block chase in a commercial area, the Pathfinder hit a cement median and a stop sign, slid a short distance and rolled onto its side. The crash took place near the Coborn’s Superstore on Cooper Avenue.

A two-vehicle accident on State Highway 22 north of Glencoe Monday afternoon sent one driver to the hospital.

According to a report issued by Minnesota State Patrol, a 2001 Pontiac Montana driven by Carolina Ramirez, 24, of Glencoe was waiting to turn left into a private lot, when her vehicle was rear-ended by a 1989 Chevrolet Camaro. Ramirez and her passengers, Wendy Barrera, 5, and Islam Barrera, 1, both of Glencoe, were not injured in the accident.

(Note: Kristin Holtz, a staff writer at the Litchfield Independent Review, contributed to this report.)

The Meeker County Sheriff's Office called the Minneapolis Bomb Squad to the Eden Valley City Hall Tuesday morning (May 6) after a man brought an explosive device into the building.

At 9:34 a.m., the sheriff's office received a report from Eden Valley Police that a man found an explosive device while cleaning out a storage shed. He brought it to the City Hall-Police Department building, which was then evacuated.