RUTHTON — 21-year-old twins Jenna and Cody Lingen are the two youngest parishioners of Peace Lutheran Church. The next youngest is their mother. They sat at the tables downstairs eating breakfast, reflecting on the church's final year and what life will be without it. "Peace Lutheran to us, ...
MARSHALL — A regional economist with the U.S. Federal Reserve found that there is a "sense of nervousness" among businesspeople in southwest Minnesota. Erick Garcia Luna, a regional economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, was in Marshall and Lamberton last week to meet with ...
MARSHALL — Burglary reported at 2:03 p.m. Monday on the 600 block of West Southview Drive is under investigation, Marshall Police said. TAUNTON — Vandalism reported at 1:58 p.m. Monday on the 300 block of West First Street is under investigation, the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office said. MARSHALL — Theft reported at 11:27 a.m. Monday on the 400 block of South Saratoga Street is under investigation, Marshall Police said.
KENSINGTON, Maryland (AP) — The contiguous United States sizzled to its hottest month ever last month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. July averaged 76.89 degrees Fahrenheit across the Lower 48 states, eclipsing the Dust Bowl's July 1936 by an eighth of a degree. Records go back to 1895. "It's not good when you're breaking records from the Dust Bowl, which we are in this case," said meteorologist Jeff Masters of Yale Climate Connections. "And that was a crazy sort of situation where you put tens of millions of people in motion. You had this great ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different single-disease shots and administering all childhood immunizations at separate appointments whenever possible. It also directs the nation's health department to improve research on vaccines, which are already extensively studied, and present a ...
MARSHALL — It was the first step toward a new home for a Lyon County family. On Monday, local officials and contractors gathered to break ground for a Habitat for Humanity house in Marshall. Ground work for a new home on Brussels Court is planned to start later this week, said Kayla Klein, ...
