Fergus Falls

FERGUS FALLS, Minn—An 89-year-old who had gone missing from an Otter Tail County cabin about two weeks ago was found dead on Wednesday, Oct. 12, authorities say.Thomas Allstopp was reported missing by relatives on Sept. 29 after a relative went to Allstopp's cabin on Spitzer Lake...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - The Otter Tail County Recycling Center here was evacuated Wednesday morning, Sept. 28, due to the release of an unidentified hazardous material, county Emergency Manager Patrick Waletzko said in a news release.Emergency responders from the Fergus Falls fire and...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — A state grand jury has indicted a Fergus Falls man on first-degree premeditated murder for the death of his father in Fergus Falls earlier this year. The indictment, filed Tuesday, Sept. 21, in Otter Tail County District Court, is in addition to a second-degree...

BATTLE LAKE, Minn. -- A 12-year-old girl who had fallen off a tube while it was being towed was injured when she was hit by a passing boat Sunday afternoon on Clitherall Lake about 25 miles east of Fergus Falls.According to the Ottertail County Sheriff’s Department, Seth Lebrecque,...

FERGUS FALLS — The Bemidji VFW baseball team has a three-game winning streak going after sweeping Fergus Falls in an away doubleheader Wednesday, winning by scores of 2-1 and 7-4. Fergus Falls is one of the two other teams in Bemidji’s district this season, which provides added...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - The suspect in an apparent murder has been identified by the Fergus Falls Police Department. Dustin Defiel, 28, is charged with second degree murder of his father, Ricardo Defiel, a city employee in the northwestern Minnesota town. The Fergus Falls Police Department...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A 25-year-old Fergus Falls man was sentenced Friday in Otter Tail County District Court for a year in jail and 10 years of probation for giving the victim alcohol throughout the day on Sept. 1 and then sexually attacking her. Battern allegedly forced her into...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- Parents of a Fergus Falls teen who drowned on a church youth trip two years ago have reached a settlement with the church and the company the church rented two houseboats from. Briggs Anderson, 14, drowned July 29, 2013, while on a youth trip with Hope Evangelical...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A 17-month-old child was pronounced dead Monday afternoon after being hit by a car in Fergus Falls. Fergus Falls police say Avah Mae Dirkman was struck about 12:30 p.m. by a 2009 Dodge Journey driven by Katie Diane Black, 29, of Fergus Falls. Reports...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A 59-year-old man was recently arrested on charges of raping a 15-year-old girl who worked for him at the Traverse County Fair in summer 1990, court documents show. Timothy John Solem of Wabasha, Minn., was arrested in southern Minnesota and first appeared...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A 59-year-old California man drowned Friday night in Jewett Lake, about 10 miles north of Fergus Falls, according to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office responded to a report of a person who had fallen out of a boat on the south...

FERGUS FALLS — Matt Gregg’s 71 is leading the Bemidji High School boys golf team as the Lumberjacks are ninth out of 11 teams after day one of the Fergus Falls Invitational. Bemidji shot a team score of 324, 22 shots behind invite leaders Alexandria and Eden Prairie. After Gregg,...