Olmsted County News

A hay barn fire was occupying Dover and Eyota fire departments Friday night. The fire was reported shortly before 9:30 p.m. at a farm on Olmsted County Road 142 east of Eyota.

Main Category: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Also Included In: Nutrition / Diet Celiac disease, an immune system reaction to gluten in the diet, is over four times more common today than it was 50 years ago, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this month in the journal Gastroenterology .

EYOTA, MNa 'The Minnesota State Patrol is reporting at least 2 people are dead following a crash in Olmsted County.

Criminal charges have been filed against a Rochester man accused of sexually touching a female detention deputy while he was in the Olmsted County jail in October.

Celiac disease, an immune system reaction to gluten in the diet, is over four times more common today than it was 50 years ago, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this month in the journal Gastroenterology .

There's an old proverb that says, "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Embedded at the heart of that proverb is the conviction that adults have the ability to shape and mold a child - either for good or for bad - and to change the way a child views the world for the rest of his or her life.

One person is dead after a rollover accident on Highway 14 in Rochester. The driver of a 1992 Toyota Tercel lost control of their vehicle near the exit ramp from Highway 52 South to Highway 14 East just before midnight Saturday.

A woman who coordinated booster club activities for the Rochester Youth Hockey Association now is accused of taking more than $36,000 of the funds for her personal use.

A man who allegedly threatened others with a beer bottle and then a knife during a dispute at the Olmsted County Fairgrounds on Sunday now faces felony and misdemeanor charges.

Severe weather season is upon us; so emergency managers across the state are conducting communication tests to see if they're prepared for the next big disaster.

A change in state law will save Minnesota county jails a lot of money. Six years ago a change in Minnesota law sent short-term inmates from state prisons into county jails, but the state did not give them the proper funds to house them.

Congratulations to Rochester on its wonderful sportsmen's rating from Outdoor Life.

PLAINVIEW -- Gerald Charles Walters was born May 9, 1938, in Quincy Township of Olmsted County, to Henry and Leona Walters.

Three Rochester men are charged with three felonies each for their roles in a dispute at the Olmsted County Fairgrounds in Rochester that ended after one of them pointed a BB gun at another group.

Lobbying costs for the city of Rochester are on the rise. But how much they've gone up is hard to determine.

A health alert for you tonight: a young child from the twin cities is the first Minnesotan to die from the H1N1 virus.

Gene Schueller knows well the winding gravel road. The rural Olmsted County man has walked two miles of it nearly every day for about a decade.

The disorder, characterized by an abnormal level of a plasma protein, requires lifelong monitoring as it is a pre-cancerous condition that can lead to multiple myeloma, a painful cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow.

Children who have a condition in which the eye sometimes points outward are more likely to develop a mental illness by young adulthood, new research has found.

Oh, Great Answer Man, I have heard from various elderly residents of Olmsted County that initially Marion was the county seat, but in the mid-1800s the county seat was moved to Rochester.