Brown County News

The number of abortions performed in Minnesota in 2008 fell to the lowest level since the 1970s and marked the second straight year of declines, the state health department reported Wednesday.

A local New Ulm woman noticed something quite unusual in Lake Hanska following the storm winds on Tuesday.

Brown County Commissioners learned Tuesday that a Minneapolis-based firm wants to build a 21-turbine, 31.5 megawatt Large Wind Energy Conversion System southeast of Morgan in Brown and Redwood counties.

A Brown County Judge refused a motion that would have lifted the child protection order put in place to make sure 13-year-old Daniel Hauser undergoes life saving chemotherapy treatments.

Daniel Hauser, the 13-year-old cancer patient from Sleepy Eye, Minn., began acupuncture and acupressure treatments in Mankato on Wednesday in an effort to control side effects from his chemotherapy and perhaps to speed healing from cancer, the attorney for the boy's family said Thursday.

A Sleepy Eye couple that has been ordered by a judge to continue chemotherapy for their 13-year-old son has hired a new attorney.

Brown County Commissioners awarded a bridge and approach grading contract on CSAH 11 over the Cottonwood River Tuesday to the project's low bidder.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's cuts in Local Government Aid, announced Tuesday afternoon, are about two thirds of what he had announced earlier, according to New Ulm City Manager Brian Gramentz.

X-rays show the tumor in the chest of a 13-year-old boy from rural Minnesota has shrunk significantly after two courses of court-ordered chemotherapy, a family spokesman said.

A couple dozen special olympic athletes plus Brown County employees and New Ulm and Sleepy Eye police officers bicycled and walked from Sleepy Eye to New Ulm Tuesday to raise money for Special Olympics Minnesota.

Community And Seniors Together , Dist. 88 Community Education andAARP will sponsor a four-hour refresher 55 Alive Safety Driving course from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24 at the New Ulm Community Center.

With the safe and willing return of Colleen and Daniel Hauser to Brown County, the court and the Hausers can now concentrate on the most important matter at hand: getting treatment for Daniela TMs cancer.

The United Way of the Brown County Area announces that Donna Lambrecht has agreed to serve as its new Executive Director.

After a journey from southern Minnesota to southern California and back, cancer-stricken Daniel Hauser capitulated and is continuing his chemotherapy in Minneapolis, in the custody of his parents.

A 50-year old rural New Ulm man, Kurt Odegard, died at the scene of a one-vehicle rollover accident Saturday evening near Hanska.

A visit to a Brown County Fair booth led a Sleepy Eye family to become the owners of a new Minnesota Valley Habitat for Humanity home being built on North Spring Street.

Daniel Hauser, the 13-year-old cancer patient whose mother took him on the run from the law to shield him from chemotherapy, is feeling sick after a second round of the treatment his family later agreed to.

The 13-year-old Minnesota cancer patient who fled the state with his mother rather than face chemotherapy underwent a round of the treatment he feared Thursday -- and doctors have vowed to soften the symptoms with natural methods favored by his family.

The family of a cancer-stricken 13-year-old boy who fled Minnesota with his mother because they objected to chemotherapy are turning to the web to raise money for their expenses, which could mount as he restarts the therapy Thursday.

NEW ULM - The Minnesota boy who fled the state with his mother rather than undergo court-ordered chemotherapy can stay in the custody of his parents, who agreed in return to set aside their religious objections and let him enter cancer treatment.