Moose Lake Star Gazette - Serving Carlton and Pine Counties since 1895

Three crew members injured when a North Memorial Health Care ambulance helicopter crashed about 2:07 a.m. Saturday, September 17, north of the Alexandria Municpal Airport near the edge of Lake Winona have been identified. Among the crew members is...

According to press reports, Eric Terhaar, 26, an offender who has been in treatment in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) in Moose Lake, has been ordered to be unconditionally released. The order was issued by a Minnesota Supreme Court...

Press reports Linda Langness and Jerry Haller were named as Carlton County's Outstanding Senior Citizens at the Carlton County Fair on Friday, August 19. The honor was based on their outstanding commi...

On Thursday, August 25, the Carlton County criminal justice community is sponsoring a “warrant workout” event at the Carlton County Courthouse in Carlton. The event will offer anyone with an outstanding Minnesota arrest warrant an opportunity to...

As of Tuesday, July 26, many were still without power following severe thunderstorms that ripped through the region July 21. According to Lake Country Power (LCP), crews were wrapping up their sixth...

According to the Carlton County Sheriff's Office, on June 13 at 5:30 p.m. the sheriff's office received a report of a burglary/kidnapping in the city of Barnum. Upon responding, deputies learned a...

According to the Pine County Sheriff's Office, on Thursday, October 15, Pine County Dispatch received a call that a man had fallen into the water at Oak Lake near Duquette. Initial information indicated the man may have fallen out of a boat and was...

On Friday, August 14, two of Carlton County's seniors were honored with the Outstanding Senior Citizen Award based on their volunteer service to their communities. This year's winners are Rita Baresh...

The Minnesota State Patrol reports alcohol has been determined to be a factor in the March 5 late night crash on Highway 33 in Cloquet that claimed the lives of a nurse and police officer. According to the initial investigation, the vehicle driven...

The trial about the constitutionality of retaining sex offenders at the Minnesota Sex Offender Program in Moose Lake and St. Peter is in its fourth week at the federal courthouse in St. Paul, with U.S. District Court Judge Donovan Frank presiding. Th...

According to the Minnesota State Patrol, a 24-year-old Cloquet woman is dead as the result of a February 10 crash in Carlton County. The woman, Autumn Martineau, was the passenger in a 1996 Toyota Camry traveling southbound on Highway 33. As the...

Coming into the January 10 game at Riverside Arena against the St. Paul Highland Park Scots, the Moose Lake Area (MLA) Rebels boys were outscored 42-12 for the season. This game proved to be very...

A civilly committed sex offender is to be released from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) in Moose Lake, a judge has ruled. Cedrick Ince, 24 years old, was convicted of sexually assaulting two teenage girls when he was 17, news reports state....

The ink is dry on the results of the second Pine County Short Story Contest. First place in the Adult Category was "Nothing Left to Forget" by Tami Jo Riedeman of Sandstone. "The winning story...

A Brook Park man is facing two felony charges for an incident on July 4 in which he drove into a Pine County deputy while he was driving. Justin Roy Steiner, 31, of Brook Park, was charged with use of deadly force against a peace officer, fleeing a...

Offender Richard James O’Reilly, age 51, walked away from the Department of Corrections’ (DOC) Challenge Incarceration Program (CIP) in Willow River at approximately 8:30 p.m. February 25, reports the Minnesota Department of Corrections....

According to the Carlton County Sheriff's Office, on January 14 at approximately 12:25 p.m. a written bomb threat was found in the Esko School. All students K-12 were evacuated to St. Matthews Church and everyone was safe and accounted for. Law...

The Carlton County Sheriff's Office reports that on November 11 just after 4:30 p.m., a 911 caller reported a train had hit a vehicle near the intersection of Central Hall Road and Hwy. 210 in Sawyer Township, Carlton County. Carlton County...

Moose Lake City Administrator Pat Oman recently met with Byron Kuster for a tour of the hiking trails that Kuster has been in the process of creating. The trails are located primarily between the...

On September 12, the Pine County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at a farm on Holly Road in rural Pine County. The search warrant was in connection with a month long investigation into allegations of animal abuse occurring at the farm ne...

“Today, love wins,” said Sen. Tony Lourey, DFL-Kerrick, who voted for the Senate bill to legalize same-sex marriage in a historic vote, 37-30, May 13. The Minnesota House approved a similar bill last week. Gov. Mark Dayton signed the bill into la...

A Cloquet woman was fatally injured in a May 8 Chisago County crash. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, 54-year-old Julie A. Koen of Cloquet died as the result of a one vehicle crash on I-35 between North Branch and Stacy just after 7 p.m....

Former Willow River City Clerk Mary Angela Leonard has been charged with one count of theft by swindle, punishable by not more than 20 years in prison, and/or a fine of $100,000. According to a Pine County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) press release and...

The Community Services Department at Lakes & Pines CAC, Inc. is piloting a Youth Host Home Program in the counties of Carlton and Pine. The goal of the Youth Host Home Program is to break the pattern of homelessness for young people before they...

According to a press release from the Carlton County Sheriff's Office, three children have been hospitalized and one man arrested following an October 19 ATV accident. At approximately 4 p.m. October 19, Carlton County dispatch received a 911 call...