The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Rural Ashby resident Alicha Judy was lucky to receive only a minor hand injury Tuesday after her car was involved in a rollover down a steep embankment, the county sheriff’s office reported today. Judy, 20, had just picked up her mail and was on County Highway 38, near the intersection of Bluebird Road, according to [...]

A Lincoln, Neb. woman received minor injuries after crashing her car into a tree Wednesday night, the county sheriff’s office reported. She was then arrested for DWI. Jessica Adams, 24, was driving southwest on Northshore Drive, near Battle Lake, when she veered off the left side of the road and ran into a tree just [...]

The 19-year-old woman whose alleged texting and driving caused a car crash that killed a 77-year-old Parkers Prairie woman pled guilty Tuesday to a charge of criminal vehicular homicide. Kayla Kathryn Carry, of Browerville, has also been charged with a misdemeanor reckless driving charge. She will be sentenced on Oct. 10 at 9:15 a.m. Prosecuting [...]

A 20-year-old Fergus Falls man died Wednesday after being broadsided by a semitruck in Morrison County, according to the county’s sheriff’s office. The sheriff’s office reported that Thomas “T.J.” Krivanek was driving west around 3:30 p.m. on Abaca Road, near the town of Upsala, when he made a U-turn. As he was doing so, he [...]

A 12-year-old girl was taken to the hospital Sunday after hurting herself on a dive into Otter Tail Lake. The sheriff’s office reported that the girl was at an address on Clearmont Road around 4 p.m. and was jumping off a dock into the water. She went in for a dive but hit her head [...]

An Ottertail woman was not on the road long Saturday before distracted driving propelled her into a slough, according to law enforcement. Maria Kangas, 19, had just driven out of her driveway on County Highway 54 (near 447th Avenue) at 11:50 a.m., the sheriff’s office reported. She was headed west but drove across the oncoming [...]

Four people were injured Thursday when a passenger car was hit by a tanker truck on State Highway 29, near the Otter Tail/Wadena county border. Curtis Howard, 57, of Menahga, was driving his tanker east on the highway when Ronniedale Lannes, 49, of Deer Creek, attempted to merge his car onto the road, the Minnesota [...]

A Fergus Falls man was life flighted to Fargo Tuesday evening after falling from the tree he was trying to cut down. Steven Frendin, 59, was seriously injured when he fell 12 feet from a tree at a residence at 919 Mt. Faith Avenue. The extent and type of his injuries is not known at [...]

Eight people were injured south of Elbow Lake Saturday when two vehicles collided on State Highway 55, causing a fire in one of the vehicles. The state patrol reported that Emma Chasteen, 18, of Elbow Lake, was driving a 1997 Oldsmobile south on the highway around 7:30 p.m. As she was driving, she crossed the [...]

An 18-year-old man died Thursday morning after his Ford Mustang was involved in a head-on crash with a semitruck on State Highway 108, the Minnesota State Patrol reported. The man, whose name has yet not been released, was traveling east on the highway shortly after 6:30 a.m., near Lake Lida and the intersection of Cross [...]