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Unbuckled Driver Killed in Crash on Interstate in Southeast Minnesota
Albert Lea, MN (KROC-AM News)- A two vehicle collision claimed the life of a Minnesota man early Saturday morning. It happened on Interstate 90 in southeast Minnesota. Emergency responders were dispatched to the collision in Freeborn County around 1:40 a.m. A car and semi traveling west on the interstate collided...
New state program addressing staffing shortage for Freeborn County Sheriff's Office
ALBERT LEA, Minn. - The state of Minnesota launched the new Intensive Comprehensive Peace Officer Education and Training Program (ICPOET) Grant Program to support law enforcement agencies struggling to become fully staffed. ICPOET will pay for police schooling for college graduates who already have two or four year degrees. The...
Friday morning crash injured Freeborn County woman
GOODHUE COUNTY, Minn. – A Freeborn County woman was injured in a one-vehicle crash Friday morning. The Minnesota State Patrol says Samantha Lou Green, 29 of Geneva, was driving west on Highway 60 in Goodhue County when her 2018 Hyundai Elantra went off the road at the intersection with Highway 57.
Albert Lea man killed in crash with semi on I-90
An Albert Lea, Minn., driver was killed early Saturday in a collision with a semitrailer truck on Interstate 90 in Freeborn County, the State Patrol said. Oscar Antonio Ramirez, 24, was driving west in his Chrysler 300C when he collided with the westbound truck in Bancroft Township, the patrol reported.
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