accidents

RUSHMORE, Minn. -- A Cottage Grove woman was killed when her car was struck by a garbage truck Friday morning in southwest Minnesota. According to the Nobles County Sheriff's Office, Jean Marie Mesner, 57, died at the scene of the accident that occurred about 6:30 a.m. near Rushmore,...

A Cottage Grove man was behind the wheel of an empty school bus that was involved in a fatal four-vehicle crash Wednesday morning on Interstate 94 in St. Paul, the Minnesota State Patrol said. The chain-reaction crash occurred just before 9:30 a.m. when the school bus, driven by...

A 24-year-old Cottage Grove woman and her three children were injured Monday in a Woodbury highway crash. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, Jamie Norris was driving a minivan southbound at 4:24 p.m. on Interstate 494 at Valley Creek Road when she swerved to the right shoulder,...

A Cottage Grove teen was injured Sunday when her car collided with a truck in the town of Oak Grove in western Wisconsin. Sarah L. Lewerer, 18, of Cottage Grove, was eastbound on Highway 10, approaching County Road QQ, when a southbound truck driven by Connor D. Loutsch, 18, of Prescott,...

One person died after falling on Barn Bluff Monday afternoon, the Red Wing Fire Department reported. Mavis Knudson, 75, of Edina, Minn., was hiking on the north trail coming back from the west overlook when she fell shortly before noon. She was pronounced dead at the scene, the...

Washington County is among a handful of counties with multiple motorcycle fatalities through the first half of 2011, contributing to a death rate above 2010 levels. There were two fatal crashes in Washington County between January and July; only Scott County had a higher total at...

A stranded motorist was struck and injured by a Cottage Grove man's car Thursday as he tried to cross Highway 61 in St. Paul to get help. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, motorist Joseph McCallister, 23, of St. Paul, exited his stalled vehicle on northbound Highway 61 at...

Two people were transported to Regions Hospital in St. Paul Thursday after car struck a school bus at Woodlane Drive and Bailey Road. The accident was reported shortly after 4:30 p.m. when a automobile was traveling westbound on Bailey Road and did not stop at a stop sign, a police...