The Minneota Vikings players hold up the section 4A Football trophy after defeating the Dawson-Boyd Blackjacks 21-12 Friday afternoon at the Schwan Regional Event Center on the Southwest Minnesota State University campus. For coverage of the game, turn to page B1.
COTTONWOOD — After about four years without one, the city of Cottonwood was set to have a post office again. But now, construction of a new post office building could face delays over a lack of payments from the U.S. Postal Service, City Administrator Teather Bliss said this week. Bliss said ...
GOP Candidate Brad Finstad formally requested a recount following Tuesday night’s election where he came up short by 323 votes to DFL Candidate Jake Johnson. “Thank you to the 326,000 of my fellow southern Minnesotans who turn out to vote on Tuesday,” Finstad said. “We will work to ...
NEW YORK (AP) — AI stocks bounced back Friday and recovered some of their sell-off from the last two days. The rest of the U.S. stock market was mixed, though, following a whirlwind few days of Wall Street trying to sort out what this week's sweeping victories by Democrats in the U.S. midterm elections will mean for the economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% and trimmed its loss for the week to 2.7%, which was its worst since President Donald Trump shook markets in April 2025 with his "Liberation Day" tariffs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 237 points, or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq ...
MINNEOTA — This week, Minneota Public Schools announced it is seeking information on vandalism to a statue at K.P. Kompelien Field. A post on the Minneota school district’s Facebook page said the school district was asking for the public’s help in identifying those responsible for graffiti to the Viking statue at the field. The vandalism happened sometime last weekend, the school district’s post said. Minneota Superintendent Scott Monson told the Independent on Thursday that he was unable to answer specific questions about the vandalism because the incident is currently under ...
MARSHALL — Theft reported at 7:26 p.m. Thursday on the 1200 block of East Main Street is under investigation, Marshall Police said. MINNEOTA — The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office assisted Minneota Police in an incident at 11:53 a.m. Thursday on the 100 block of Century Drive, the Sheriff’s Office said. MARSHALL — An incident reported at 10:28 a.m. Thursday on the 300 block of Jewett Street is under investigation, the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office said. MARSHALL — A female was arrested on a warrant in a traffic stop at 1:00 a.m. Thursday at the intersection of ...
