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Lyon Co. pursuit ends with New Ulm arrest

MARSHALL — A man pursued by law enforcement in Lyon County on Friday morning was later arrested in New Ulm. Chase David Frieze was apprehended around 9 p.m. Friday, the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office said. Around 11 a.m. Friday, a Lyon County deputy tried to initiate a traffic stop for a 2021 Jeep Gladiator suspected to be driven by Frieze on Minnesota Highway 23, the Sheriff’s Office said. There was a Meeker County warrant out for Frieze’s arrest. Instead of stopping, the Jeep accelerated and fled from the deputy, the Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies pursued the vehicle for ...

Andrew Bailey, an FBI deputy director, says he's leaving the post after just over a year in the job

WASHINGTON — Andrew Bailey, one of the FBI's two deputy directors, announced Monday that he was leaving the position after just over a year on the job and would be returning to Missouri to spend time with his family. Bailey was named co-deputy director in August 2025 to serve alongside Dan Bongino at a time of high tensions between FBI and Justice Department leadership over the handling of the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The appointment was unusual because the FBI for years has only had one person at a time in the deputy director position, the bureau's No. 2 job. A former ...

Bond yields crank higher and pull US stocks further from their record

NEW YORK — Yields in the U.S. bond market cranked higher Monday and again touched their highest levels in roughly two decades, which knocked U.S. stocks further from their record high. The S&P 500 fell 0.8% and gave back much of its gain from last week, which had brought it to the brink of its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 347 points, or 0.7%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.9%. Stocks felt pressure as the yield on the 10-year Treasury briefly topped 5.27% before pulling back to 5.23%, up from 5.17% late Friday. It's back to where it was in 2007, before ...

Crime

MARSHALL — A Marshall man, 34, was arrested in a domestic incident at 1:44 a.m. Monday on the 500 block of Village Drive, Marshall Police said. MARSHALL — A Marshall man, 31, was cited for expired registration at 1:35 a.m. Monday at the intersection of East Southview Drive and East Southview Court, Marshall Police said MARSHALL — A Marshall woman, 20, was cited in a traffic stop at 9:58 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of East Main Street and North First Street, Marshall Police said. MARSHALL — A Marshall man, 19, was arrested for disorderly conduct and obstruction in ...

GOP power player and lobbyist key advisor to Demuth

House Speaker Lisa Demuth has had several defining moments in her campaign for governor thus far. She lost the Minnesota Republican Party’s convention endorsement in May after 10 ballots, though her team successfully raised doubts about the tabulation process to dampen the endorsement of Kendall Qualls. Later, after missing out on what had been considered a must-have endorsement of President Donald Trump, she went on to win the Republican primary for governor. On the convention floor and on primary night as the returns came in, Demuth had at her side a GOP operative and lobbyist ...