Waltham News

A southern Minnesota sheriff's deputy has been cleared of allegations that he used excessive force by unleashing his police dog on a suspect.

Mower County sheriff's deputy Jeff Ellis was found not guilty by a Minneapolis jury Friday in an excessive force trial that involved his national champion K-9, Tazer.

A Mower County sheriffa s deputy and the national champion K-9 Tazer are the focus of an excessive force trial that started Monday in a federal courtroom in Minneapolis.

Two area grain-dryer fires during the weekend continued a trend related to this fall's wet harvesting season.

An area farmer is down one $120,000 combine after it caught fire Friday evening.

Police report, Oct. 13

After a week of roaming northern Mower County fields and roads, a nearly 200-pound llama was shot and killed by authorities Monday after attempts to capture it failed.

After a week of roaming northern Mower County fields and roads, a nearly 200-pound llama was shot and killed by authorities Monday after attempts to capture it failed.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled there was insufficient evidence to prove criminal vehicular homicide in the case of a Hayfield woman now serving time in prison.

The Austin Public School District will be reducing the number of polling places from nine to six, beginning with the November election.

Somewhere between Utopian storybook images and harsh attacks about pesticide use and animal abuse lies the truth about farming.