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One Teen Dead, Another Critically Hurt in Stearns County Crash
AVON TOWNSHIP (WJON News) -- A Sartell teenager is dead and a St. Cloud teen is battling life-threatening injuries after a two-vehicle crash near St. Anna. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office got multiple 911 calls at around 2:15 p.m. Monday about a crash with injuries at the intersection of County Road 9 and Two Rivers Road. Deputies arrived to find two vehicles with extensive damage in the ditch of County Road 9.
Sartell Teen Dies In Monday Multi-Vehicle Crash; St. Cloud Teen Critically Injured
(KNSI) – A Sartell teenager died in a Monday afternoon crash in Avon Township. The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office says the accident happened at about 2:15 at the intersection of County Road 9 and County Road 52, also known as Two Rivers Road. A 62-year-old Avon man was behind the wheel of a 2014 Chrysler Town and Country minivan headed south on CR 9 when he entered the intersection going at least 55 miles per hour. There are no stop signs regulating traffic for that road.
St. Cloud Council Weighs In On New County Jail, SCSU Future
(KNSI) – In a wide-ranging agenda Monday night, the St. Cloud City Council addressed the future of the Stearns County Justice Center and St. Cloud State University. It moved debate over a resolution on the site of the new jail until a future meeting. Member George Hontos says he believes that choosing a greenspace in another part of the city or on nearby township land that would need to be annexed into St. Cloud would be detrimental to the city as a whole. Hontos made the case that moving the jail would cripple downtown’s economic viability.
Crash at County Road 9 and County Road 52
On July 22nd, 2024, at approximately 2:17 p.m., the Stearns County Emergency Communications Center received multiple 911 calls reporting a two-vehicle crash with injuries at the intersection of County Road 9 and County Road 52/Two Rivers Road in Avon Township. That intersection is approximately ¾ of a mile north of St Anna.
18-year-old driver dies, passenger injured in rural Stearns County crash
An 18-year-old driver was killed and her teenage passenger injured Monday afternoon in a two-car collision in rural Stearns County, authorities said. Just after 2:15 p.m., Stearns County received multiple 911 calls about a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of County Road 9 and Two Rivers Road, about 5 miles north of Avon, where deputies found two vehicles with heavy damage in the ditch.
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