Claremont News

Three days after his son was found guilty in Dodge District Court of four counts of first-degree murder, Danny Ortega Sr.

A Claremont, Minn., man whose truck was found abandoned and burning by Austin police pleaded guilty to a felony DWI charge Friday for refusing to submit to a breath test.

Danny Ortega Jr. was found guilty of all four murder charges against him late Friday morning for the February 2008 slaying of Troy Ulrich in Claremont.

The man accused of killing Troy Ulrich in Claremont last year was convicted on all counts Friday.

Three Rochester men, allegedly angry over getting bogus cocaine from a Claremont man and his brother in Mexico, were charged Thursday for kidnapping and beating the Claremont man while trying to get thousands of dollars in ransom.

MANTORVILLE a ' Monday, a forensic scientist authenticated DNA findings taken from evidence collected at the scene where Troy Ulrich was killed in February 2008.

As we approach the end of 2009, one of the finest and most in-demand vocal groups in the area wind up their 15th year of singing together.

Neighbors, first responders, and Dodge County Sheriff's deputies who arrived to find Troy Ulrich's lifeless body in the hallway of his apartment complex, testified Thursday in the trial of the man accused of killing him.

 CLAREMONT -- Summer was too cool for corn, October was too cold and wet to harvest it, frosty late November mornings make it impossible to pick corn and then Bill Smith came back to his rural Claremont farm late Friday to find his dryer wouldn't dry the corn he had picked.

Share + Nov 28, 2009 9:34 am US/Central MANTORVILLE, Minn. 1 of 2 On Monday, jury selection will begin in the murder trial of 22-year-old Danny Ortega Jr.

A pre-trial hearing was held Wednesday in Dodge County District Court for a man accused of slaying a Claremont man in February 2008.

Dodge County is gearing up for three murder trials in the next few months. Jury selection in the trial of Danny Ortega Jr., 22, of Claremont, is set to begin Monday in Dodge District Court in Mantorville.

A Claremont man asked for mercy before he was sentenced Wednesday in Dodge District Court, but he still got the full 11 years, two months in prison.

A Claremont, Minn., man was charged Friday in Mower County with drunk driving after police found his abandoned truck burning a day earlier.

Sonja SwensonA's Sticks & Stones shop on North Riverfront has grown from an antique store to a boutique that offers beads, clothing, jewelry and gifts.

Vickie Lynn Rand 1956 - 2009 CLAREMONT - Vickie Lynn Rand, 53, of Claremont, died Thursday, Nov.

The number of corn stalks still standing in the fields may have deer hunters grumbling, but it also has plenty of farmers worried what will become of this year's harvest.

All results are preliminary. Walter E. Laue 1934 - 2009 FARIBAULT - Walter E. Laue, 75, of Faribault, died Monday, Nov.

MANTORVILLE The premeditated first-degree murder trial of Danny Ortega Jr., 22, of Claremont is set to begin Nov.

Stewart W. Peterson, age 86 of Waseca died on Monday, October 19, 2009 at his residence in Waseca.