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MMU generator plant nears completion

MARSHALL — Construction of a new electrical generator plant for Marshall Municipal Utilities made a lot of progress over the summer. Work on the generator project is nearing completion, said MMU Electric Operations Manager Tony Mead. “Things have been going well,” Mead said. “The ...

Most US stocks fall after the bond market cranks the pressure even higher

NEW YORK (AP) — Most of the U.S. stock market fell Wednesday as Wall Street contended with the downside of a U.S. economy that keeps powering through its many challenges. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% to close out its third losing month in the last four. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 443 points, or 0.9%, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.2%. Stocks turned lower after data reports suggested the U.S. economy was even stronger during the spring than earlier thought. That helped yields remain high in the bond market, which in turn kept up the pressure weighing on stocks and all ...

Crime

MARSHALL — A Marshall man, 27, was arrested for domestic assault in an incident at 9:02 p.m. Tuesday on the 1300 block of Birch Street, Marshall Police said. RUSSELL — A report is pending on a family matter at 7:17 p.m. Tuesday on the 1600 block of 200th Street, the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office said. TRACY — A family matter was reported at 4:35 p.m. Tuesday on the 200 block of Hollett Street, Tracy Police said. No further information was available. MARSHALL — Check fraud reported at 11:21 a.m. Tuesday on Circle Drive is under investigation, Marshall Police said ...

Two injured in Redwood Co. crash

MILROY — Two people were injured in a two-vehicle crash east of Milroy on Wednesday morning, the Minnesota State Patrol said. An Arlington woman was transported to Sanford Tracy Medical Center, the State Patrol said. The crash was reported at 7:54 a.m. at the intersection of Minnesota Highway 68 and Redwood County Road 5. A 1997 Chevy GMT 400 driven by Lilli Jade Voneschen, 18, of Arlington was traveling westbound on Highway 68, and a 2012 Lexus hatchback driven by Xia Xiong, 26, of Walnut Grove, was traveling northbound on County Road 5. The two vehicles collided, the State Patrol ...

Klobuchar’s knowledge of college sports comes in handy during hearing

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor nominee for governor, leaned on her knowledge of Big Ten sports to embarrass a Republican colleague Tuesday over the otherwise weighty matter of President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, was grilling former U.S. Department of Justice special prosecutor Jack Smith — whose team secured indictments against Trump — and called him a “dirtbag.” Schmitt was eager to show Smith was colluding with Fulton County Attorney Fani Willis, whose Georgia case against Trump collapsed ...

Governors pledge to oppose federal overreach

Earlier this month, the bipartisan National Governors Association for the first time in over a decade updated its internal principles on federalism — the system of power sharing between Washington, D.C., and the states. That document now says governors must defend state sovereignty, including through public criticism of federal overreach, legal challenges to federal action, and declining to use state resources to enforce federal laws. The new policy comes as more state leaders during President Donald Trump’s second term elevate the importance of federalism, the uniquely American ...