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On October 3 at approximately 10:42 P.M. the Stearns County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to a one vehicle crash on County Road 18 in Raymond Twp., Stearns County. The female driver stated she had been driving northbound on County Road 18 from Padua going towards Sauk Centre when she had struck some type of animal, which she believed to be a cow, but she was not sure. She … [Read more...] about Stearns County Crash

On 9/29/2018, the Stearns County Communications Center received a call of 2 black lab dogs located in the ditch off of Lovell Lake Rd, in the Lovell Lake Wildlife Protection Area. A deputy responded to the scene and located a male and female black lab that had been discarded in the ditch, both suffering from fatal gunshot wounds. The caller told deputies he had been … [Read more...] about Stearns County Sheriff’s News – Suspicious Activity

Videos about how to get deer tested for chronic wasting disease, how to quarter a deer, how to cape a trophy deer and how to remove lymph nodes from a deer are available on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources website at mndnr.gov/cwd/videos.html. “We’re informing hunters about what they can do to minimize risk to our wild deer population,” said Lou Cornicelli, … [Read more...] about Videos explain CWD testing and how to quarter and cape a deer

A deer taken during the opening weekend of archery season in southeastern Minnesota’s disease management zone has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, according to the Department of Natural Resources. A hunter harvested the adult male deer about 1 mile east of Preston in the center of the CWD management zone. Mandatory surveillance is in effect for the area, which is … [Read more...] about Deer tests positive for CWD in disease management zone