A member of the St. Cloud, Minnesota, police department has died following a crash on Monday night.
Police Chief Jeff Oxton says Officer Ryan Ebert died Saturday morning at Hennepin County Medical Center from his injuries, which were determined by medical staff earlier this week to not be survivable.
The bus driver, a 65-year-old man identified by the state patrol as Phillip Alan Wright of Apple Valley, was taken to the hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening.
An incident report for the crash says there was alcohol in Ebert’s system. Oxton said in a news release on Friday that blood samples taken by medical personnel at the hospital “indicate that he had a very small or trace amount of alcohol in his system, significantly below that which would ever lead to a person being considered impaired or driving under the influence.”
Oxton said Saturday that Ebert’s organs will be donated.
An 85-year-old man has died after a crash in Lakeville, Minnesota late Saturday morning.
Police said they responded to a crash involving two cars on Cedar Avenue and 185th Street West around 11:45 a.m. When officers arrived on scene they provided medical care to the drivers of both cars — the drivers were the only occupants of their car.
According to police, an 85-year-old man was driving a Jaguar the wrong direction on Cedar Avenue when it struck a Tesla driven by a 44-year-old woman.
Both drivers suffered life-threatening injuries and were taken to a Hennepin County hospital. It was later learned the 85-year-old did not survive his injuries. The current condition of the woman is unknown.
The Minnesota State Patrol assisted with a reconstruction of the crash. Officials are investigating the cause of the crash.
A man was killed after being struck by two vehicles in Minneapolis on Saturday afternoon, according to police.
The incident happened a little after 3 p.m. near Franklin Avenue East and Cedar Avenue South. Responding officers said they found the man, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to police, the man was crossing the the street in the middle of the block before getting hit by a car then a bus. Both drivers remained on scene and are cooperating. No arrested have been made at this time.
Police are investigating the accident and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office will release the ID of the man who was killed.
Authorities say one person is dead and two others, including a six-year-old, are hurt after a fire truck overturned near a school in Cottonwood, Minnesota, on Friday evening.
According to the Yellow Medicine County sheriff’s office, the crash was reported just after 6:30 p.m. Authorities learned the truck, which was the only vehicle involved, had turned onto its side in a west ditch along 490th Street near Lakeview School.
The sheriff’s office says the Wood Lake fire truck had been headed north when the crash happened.
One of the three people inside was found trapped under the vehicle and died at the scene. That victim has been identified as a 43-year-old. No other details about the victim were provided due to family notification.
The other two victims have been identified as 37-year-old Andrew Vanhecke and 6-year-old Beaux Vanhecke. They were first taken to Avera Marshall Hospital, but were later flown to Avera Sioux Falls. No word on their current condition.
Cottonwood is about 100 miles northeast of Sioux Falls.
A woman is dead after being hit by a vehicle in Fairmont, Minnesota, early Friday evening.
According to Fairmont police, officers were called to the 600 block of East 4th Street just after 6 p.m. There, they found a 64-year-old had been hit by a westbound vehicle.
The woman died at the scene from her injuries, despite lifesaving efforts by first responders.
The driver, identified by police as a 56-year-old woman, was arrested.
Neither of the woman’s names has been released at this time.
No word on what caused the crash, which is being investigated by both police and the Minnesota State Patrol.
An overnight crash involving a pedestrian in St. Paul, Minnesota’s Greater East Side neighborhood, has left a man dead.
According to St. Paul police, officers were called to the intersection of Maryland Avenue and Clarence Street around 12:45 a.m.
The driver, identified as a man, told police he was headed west on Maryland Avenue and crossing Clarence Street when he hit a man.
Police say the victim was brought to Regions Hospital after medics began life-saving measures. However, the man died at the hospital. While his name hasn’t been provided, police tell WCCO he was 32 years old.
The driver, who said he didn’t see the victim crossing, is being cooperative, according to police. They add that he didn’t show any signs of impairment.
Currently, the driver hasn’t been arrested, and the crash is still under investigation.
This is the second fatal pedestrian-involved crash in as many days along Maryland Avenue.
Although the driver in that crash left the scene, a neighbor’s surveillance camera recorded the crash. Police were able to track the vehicle and arrested a 46-year-old man in the town of Sleepy Eye a few hours after the crash happened. He is being held at the Ramsey County Jail and is suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol.
A 53-year-old woman is dead and a 24-year-old man was rescued by three Samaritans after a crash in Mudgett Township, Minnesota, the Mille Lacs County Sheriff’s Office said on Friday.
The crash happened near the intersection of 280th Street and 100th Avenue around 6:24 a.m. Thursday. Responding deputies found a Toyota Camry in flames and a heavily damaged Lincoln Navigator. The driver of the Camry, identified by officials as Rachael Marie Morey of Rush City, Minnesota, died at the scene.
Deputies saw a person, later identified as Timothy Boros of Little Falls, Minnesota, being carried away from the Navigator by Samaritans. The Lincoln caught fire “moments later,” the sheriff’s office said.
Boros was taken to the hospital.
Investigators later learned that three men saw the crash happen and stopped to help. They used a cut-off saw in an attempt to get inside the Lincoln, and used fire extinguishers from their work vehicles to try and put out the fire, according to the sheriff’s office. The three men eventually broke the driver’s side door of the Lincoln and carried Boros away.
“Their efforts undoubtedly saved Mr. Boros from death or serious injury,” the sheriff’s office said.
A semitruck also involved in the crash sustained minor damage, according to officials. The driver of the truck, one of the three men who helped Boros, was not injured.
The sheriff’s office and the Minnesota State Patrol are investigating.
Police in Maplewood, Minnesota are investigating a hit-and-run that left a man dead Friday morning.
According to city officials, the crash happened around 4:30 a.m. on the 2300 block of Maryland Avenue East. Police responded to a report that a man was down in the road.
When they arrived, they saw an injured 31-year-old man. He was pronounced dead less than 30 minutes later.
A witness said they had seen a large conversion van with a ladder rack near the victim, which had fled the area. Police found the car’s information and collected surveillance video from a nearby residence that captured the crash, officials say.
Police closed down the roadway on Friday morning between Lakewood Drive and McKnight Road.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
A motorcyclist was killed during a crash with a semi-truck Thursday morning in central Minnesota.
The crash happened at the intersection of Highway 28 and Highway 71 near Sauke Centre in Stearns County shortly before 9 a.m.
The Minnesota State Patrol says a 32-year-old man from St. Paul was driving a semi-truck east on Highway 28 while a man on a 1997 Harley Davidson motorcycle was stopped at the stop sign on Highway 28 behind a 2011 Chevy Silverado.
As the 22-year-old driver of the Chevy turned north onto Highway 71, the semi hit the motorcycle and then the Chevy, according to the crash report.
The state patrol says the 63-year-old motorcyclist from Glenwood, Minnesota, died.
Riley Moser is a digital producer who covers breaking news and feature stories for CBS Minnesota. Riley started her career at CBS Minnesota in June 2022 and earned an honorable mention for sports writing from the Iowa College Media Association the same year.
One person is dead following a crash on the southbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike near Mile Marker 277 in Clermont on Wednesday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. FHP said the crash occurred at 3:40 p.m.A 59-year-old man from St. Cloud was driving his 2015 Genesis GV80 on the southbound lanes of the Turnpike when, for unknown reasons ran off the roadway and into an active construction site, hitting a construction tractor. The driver in the construction tractor suffered minor injuries but was not transported to the hospital. FHP said the driver of the Genesis was ejected from his vehicle and transported to South Lake Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. A total of four vehicles were involved in the crash, according to FHP. A third vehicle, driven by a 30-year-old from Orlando, was also transported to a nearby hospital with minor injuries. A fourth vehicle struck crash debris in the inside lane, but the driver was not injured. Southbound lanes near Mile Marker 277 have now reopened, according to FHP.
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One person is dead following a crash on the southbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike near Mile Marker 277 in Clermont on Wednesday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
FHP said the crash occurred at 3:40 p.m.
A 59-year-old man from St. Cloud was driving his 2015 Genesis GV80 on the southbound lanes of the Turnpike when, for unknown reasons ran off the roadway and into an active construction site, hitting a construction tractor.
The driver in the construction tractor suffered minor injuries but was not transported to the hospital.
FHP said the driver of the Genesis was ejected from his vehicle and transported to South Lake Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
A total of four vehicles were involved in the crash, according to FHP. A third vehicle, driven by a 30-year-old from Orlando, was also transported to a nearby hospital with minor injuries.
A fourth vehicle struck crash debris in the inside lane, but the driver was not injured.
Southbound lanes near Mile Marker 277 have now reopened, according to FHP.
The Minnesota State Patrol says a toddler is dead after a high-speed, rollover crash in Maplewood, and his mother, the alleged driver, now faces criminal charges.
The crash happened around 6:30 p.m. Saturday near Highways 36 and 61. The SUV ended up in a ditch where 1-year-old Revon Todd of St. Paul was found dead.
On Monday morning, yellow lines could be found on the southbound exit ramp from Highway 36 to Highway 61. The lines show where a speeding driver lost control and crashed into a watery ditch.
Her Chevy Tahoe rolled over several times and landed upside down in about two feet of water. Some people driving by stopped and tried to help everyone get out of the vehicle.
The 28-year-old woman who was driving the SUV made it out safely along with a 32-year-old man who was a passenger. Two of the driver’s boys, ages five and six, also survived. But investigators said her 1-year-old son died after he became trapped under the SUV.
“It’s terrible, it’s horrible. You don’t see a lot of accidents here on 61. But this coming off 36 here would be the spot. It’s a pretty tight angle there,” said Mike Rydel, who lives nearby.
State Patrol investigators said the driver was distraught at the scene and asking first responders to help her son. She told them she had been driving her boys to their grandmother’s, and she admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana, but blamed the rain and bald tires for causing the crash, charging documents say.
Investigators said her blood alcohol concentration was more than twice the legal limit and they found small bottles of alcohol along the path the SUV took.
“I feel for the family, really. It’s horrible,” said Rydel.
The mother has been charged with one count of criminal vehicular homicide.
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US-27 in Clermont was shut down for hours following a fatal crash early Sunday morning, according to Florida Highway Patrol.The crash happened just before 2 a.m. on US-27 north of Frank Jarrell Road. Witnesses told FHP that a 2019 Audi Q5 was traveling southbound at high speed in the northbound lanes when it crashed head-on into a 2021 Toyota Camry.The Audi’s driver, a 22-year-old Windermere man, was transported as a trauma alert to Orlando Regional Medical Center with serious injuries. The 28-year-old Orlando man driving the Toyota was pronounced dead at the crash scene.FHP is continuing to investigate the crash, and the roadway has reopened to traffic.
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US-27 in Clermont was shut down for hours following a fatal crash early Sunday morning, according to Florida Highway Patrol.
The crash happened just before 2 a.m. on US-27 north of Frank Jarrell Road. Witnesses told FHP that a 2019 Audi Q5 was traveling southbound at high speed in the northbound lanes when it crashed head-on into a 2021 Toyota Camry.
The Audi’s driver, a 22-year-old Windermere man, was transported as a trauma alert to Orlando Regional Medical Center with serious injuries. The 28-year-old Orlando man driving the Toyota was pronounced dead at the crash scene.
FHP is continuing to investigate the crash, and the roadway has reopened to traffic.
Authorities suspect alcohol may have played a factor in a Maplewood, Minnesota, rollover crash that killed a 1-year-old boy Saturday evening.
The Minnesota State Patrol says the crash happened at approximately 6:25 p.m. on the eastbound Highway 36 ramp to southbound Highway 61.
A 28-year-old woman from St. Paul was driving a 2002 Chevy Tahoe at a high rate of speed when she appeared to lose control. The vehicle went off the roadway, rolled into the right ditch on the ramp and landed upside down, submerged in 1 to 2 feet of water, according to the crash report.
Authorities say a 1-year-old boy was extricated from underneath the vehicle but died on the scene.
The driver, a 5-year-old boy, a 6-year-old boy and a 32-year-old man were transported to Regions Hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.
After being cleared, the Minnesota State Patrol says the driver was booked in Ramsey County Jail for criminal vehicular homicide.
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Officials are investigating after a driver fatally hit an 85-year-old woman in Victoria, Minnesota, on Wednesday.
The Carver County Sheriff’s Office says the crash happened a little before 9:30 a.m. near Victoria Drive and County Road 18.
Witnesses to the crash say that woman was in the crosswalk when she was hit by the car. The driver, a 53-year-old man, had the green light at the time of the crash, according to the sheriff’s office. He is cooperating with investigators.
The woman was taken to Hennepin Healthcare but later died from her injuries.
The sheriff’s office and the Minnesota State Patrol are investigating.
Chloe is a digital producer at CBS Minnesota in Minneapolis and has worked in numerous positions at the station, including Assignment Editor, Digital Line Producer and Web Producer. She started her career at CBS Minnesota in 2015.
On Sept. 8, 44-year-old Joe Norgaard was surveying a rural stretch of highway, Texas Avenue & 230th Street East in New Market Township, just before noon. The Scott County Sheriff’s Office says a 58-year-old motorist fatally hit Norgaard while he was doing his work.
“It’s the thing you’re the most scared of, that’s the call that you’re the most scared of,” said Courtney Norgaard, the widow of Joe Norgaard.
She says Joe Norgaard had just gotten this job and it was a big promotion for him. Now, she is left to raise their two sons, Henry and Magnus, alone.
“His amazing super dad powers … no one could match them,” said Courtney Norgaard.
The Scott County Sheriff’s Office says the driver of the vehicle that killed Norgaard was not impaired, pulled over to call 911, and cooperated with investigators. Despite all that, the Norgaard family is frustrated.
“This man is with his family, and Joe isn’t,” said Courtney Norgaard, “I don’t know if there is any justice. There’s nothing that could replace him.”
She remembers Joe Norgaard through the passion project he leaves behind — his garden.
“[The garden] was his pride and joy this summer,” said Courtney Norgaard.
She hopes Joe’s memory can be honored by everyone being more attentive behind the wheel.
“Just please keep your eyes on the road,” said Courtney Norgaard, “One split second can change everything.”
An online fundraiser has been set up to help Courtney Norgaard and her two sons.
It’s an Eagan, Minnesota woman’s continued legacy. After Adelyn Miller died in 2023, her organs saved five lives, and four of those she saved gathered together to live out her legacy.
“Oh man, I just miss talking to her,” said Vicki Wichmann Miller, Adelyn’s mother.
Adelyn Miller’s family says she was adventurous, loving and made people laugh. She was 20-years-old when ejected from a vehicle, fracturing her skull, killing her days later due to a brain herniation.
Her mother says she wanted to be a paramedic one day.
“She was very much about helping everybody else,” said Miller.
Which is exactly what she did.
“I owe her my life,” said Golownia, who received lungs.
Dennis Golownia
“You saved my life and I’m eternally grateful,” said Kevin Enders, who received a liver.
“I just want her to know she’s changed my life,” said Jack Feast. Feast got Adelyn Miller’s heart.
Hopefully she could see it in my eyes, how grateful,” said Suzie Dauer, who got her kidney.
“Being able to meet her recipients has been extremely healing to me,” Miller added.
After Adelyn Miller’s passing, her mother reached out to her donors and heard back from four of the five.
On Saturday, they gathered together as one big Brady Bunch. Recipients and loved ones painted rocks that’ll be placed across the world. If you find one, you’ll notice a QR code linking to Adelyn’s story and her impact as a donor.
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“I feel like I’ve gained a whole new family with Vicki and everyone else that’s here in Minnesota,” said Feast.
Feast, who lives in Illinois, can enjoy life with his daughter again. He has also gained new friends — or as he says ‘family’ members like Kevin, who also traveled from the Land of Lincoln for the weekend.
“The fact we’re both still alive because of Adelyn is indescribable,” said Enders.
Something that Dennis from the Milwaukee metro would also agree with.
“I can see the scars on my chest and I still think of her,” he added while his granddaughter was hugging him.
All signs that Adelyn’s legacy is alive.
“She really impacted a lot of people” said MIller.
To become an organ donor, register online through the National Donate Life Registry.
Frankie McLister, originally from Middletown, Maryland, holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.
He was on his way to school with his mother, Liberty Borg. Her friend, Marisa Casebolt, was driving. Both died at the scene.
“They got intercepted and never even seen the car coming,” said Nicole Page, Borg’s mother and Greyson’s grandmother.
Page said her grandson is a miracle child twice over. He was born three-months premature and weighed just 3 lbs.
Greyson grew to be the loving child he is now, only to have to deal with immense loss.
Scene of the deadly crash in north Minneapolis on Sept. 5, 2025.
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“The first thing he said was, ‘I watched my mom die, and then they came and busted open the doors and pulled me out,’” Page said.
She said it’s amazing Greyson survived.
“He had an open fracture, which means the bone goes through the skin,” she said.
Page is grateful for the first officer on scene who got Greyson out of the wreck and to the hospital.
“That was probably the hardest part, seeing him, you know, completely stabilized and all these wires and tubes,” she said.
Even though both legs and one arm are in casts, and another on his hand to heal a broken thumb, Page said Greyson’s light still shines.
“They said he had a traumatic brain injury as well, but you can’t tell,” she said. “That boy’s using words bigger than I use. All the neurological testing that they’re doing, they’re finding that he’s normal.”
But he will have a long road to recovery.
From left to right: Marisa Casebolt and Liberty Borg
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“He has his moments when the pain gets really bad. You don’t want to talk to him because he’s like, ‘Nope, not doing nothing. I’m not taking my medicine.’ And he’s like, ‘I’m just stuck in this bed,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, it’s temporary, it’s temporary,’ I have to keep telling him,” Page said.
She is proud of how her grandson is handling what has happened to him and his family.
“He’s just fully aware of what happened to his mom. It’s like he knows that the grandma’s not OK. And some of the family members, he won’t talk about it in front of them. He just says, ‘People died,’” she said.
Her faith is helping her deal with what has happened and what he now faces.
“I have to stay on that outside-the-box so I can be like, ‘This is what we need to do, this is what we need to prepare for, this is how we’re going to handle it,’” she said.
Page is asking for the community to “pray positive thoughts that everything will go as planned.”
She said there are things the family must get before Greyson is allowed to go home, like a hospital bed and wheelchair.
An online fundraiser has been set up to help with his recovery.
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A 45-year-old man with an “extensive criminal history” faces charges in connection to a carjacking and chase that ended in a fatal crash at a busy north Minneapolis intersection Thursday.
The two women who died were identified as Marisa Ardys Casebolt and Liberty Borb. Both were 25 years old. A six-year-old passenger was taken to the hospital with broken femurs and a traumatic brain injury, charging documents said.
Edward Tiki Arrington, also known as Troy Mike Payton, is charged in Hennepin County with two counts of fleeing a peace officer resulting in death and one count of fleeing a peace officer resulting in great bodily harm. He also faces federal charges of one count discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence and one count of carjacking.
The chaotic spree started around 8 a.m., police said. Arrington was driving recklessly before crashing into a silver car at Lake Street and Fourth Avenue South. He ran up to the silver car while pointing a gun at the driver. Arrington then turned and ran up to a second car on the road and pointed his gun at that driver, charges say.
An image of the suspect on East Lake Street before he carjacked a victim on the morning of Sept. 4, 2025.
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The driver of the second car sped away, and Arrington ran up to a black Volkswagen, pointing a gun at the driver. The driver got out of the Volkswagen and Arrington stole it, documents say.
State charges say that the investigation into the carjacking and attempted carjackings is ongoing, but at some point during the series of events, Arrington fired his gun multiple times. Federal documents say he also approached a pedestrian and asked her where her guns were. When she replied that she didn’t have a gun, Arrington released her and ran back to the Volkswagen.
According to the criminal complaint, Arrington also drove up to the car he had initially crashed, got his dogs and loaded them into the stolen car. He then took off eastbound on Lake Street.
Minneapolis police responded to the carjacking calls and eventually spotted Arrington driving “erratically on city streets through downtown and into north Minneapolis,” documents say. Officers activated their emergency lights and sirens in an attempt to stop him, but Arrington continued to drive.
He eventually made his way onto Olson Memorial Highway and ran a red light at Penn Avenue, charges say. He T-boned a blue Ford Focus on the passenger side. Casebolt and Borb were pronounced dead at the scene.
Arrington was also injured in the crash. He was taken to the hospital for his injuries.
He has an “extensive criminal history to include multiple assaults with firearms, illegal possession of a firearm, and two convictions for fleeing police in a motor vehicle from 2000 and 2006,” state documents say. The federal charges also say he has a prior conviction of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, for which he was sentenced to 40 months in prison in 2009.
“Two young women should be alive today. Instead, their lives were cut short by a senseless crime committed by a career criminal,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson. “They deserved better. We all deserve better. I am weary of this endless violence. Minnesota deserves peace. We will keep fighting to restore it.”
“This tragic loss of life was entirely preventable,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said, “Two women with their entire lives ahead of them are gone, and a young child is in the hospital with serious injuries. They were simply going about their lives on a Thursday morning and deserved to make it home safely. We issued charges against Mr. Payton immediately to protect our community and anticipate additional charges as the investigation continues.”
In a statement shared with WCCO, Casebolt’s sister Blaze shared the following:
Marisa was a loving and devoted mother who was always smiling. That’s how I will remember her. Even during difficult times, you wouldn’t know it, because she carried herself with warmth and joy. She had a great sense of humor and would always make us laugh, even as a child.
She loved being a mother and took great pride in her children. Marisa was a good person who loved her job, her kids, and her family and friends deeply. She was also an enrolled member of the White Earth Tribe, something she carried with pride.
To her family, Marisa was more than a sister — she was a best friend. My sisters and I most late nights would be in our group chat sending pictures of our kids, laughing, and offering each other advice as we navigated motherhood together. She was also an amazing aunt whose love and presence touched all of us.
That’s who Marisa was giving, joyful, and full of love for her family. Her memory will live on in the laughter she shared, the love she gave, and the strength she showed every day.
Arrington is being held on a $4 million bail, Moriarty’s office said. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance Monday afternoon.
The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that killed two people near Randolph on Saturday morning.
Officials say a 28-year-old from Kenyon in a Dodge pickup truck was driving the wrong way on Highway 56 when it hit a GMC Terrain head-on.
The driver of the GMC and his passenger were both killed, according to state patrol.
Investigators also say the 28-year-old pickup driver was also under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash. The driver was air lifted to a hospital, the extent of his injuries are unknown.
The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating the crash.
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