Olmsted County News

Independence Day will be filled with fireworks and celebrations, but not much business.

Susan Waughtal wants to enlighten Rochester residents about sustainable living, one photograph at a time.

The campaigns for elected seats up for grabs in the Rochester and Olmsted County governments got briskly under way on Tuesday.

As Patricia McCormick eyed a bin filled with potatoes at Channel One Food Shelf, her 2-year-old son Owen eagerly clung to a box of fruit dippers.

An Olmsted County jury has awarded damages of nearly $600,000 to two men injured in a head-on traffic crash on U.S. 63 in 2004.

May said the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office and Stewartville Fire Department responded to the call, at 30464 735th Avenue, around 8 p.m. to find the house fully engulfed in flames.

Fire destroyed a machine shed on a farm north of Eyota late Wednesday night. The shed contained seven tractors and some new farm implements.

Almost a year to the day after an Owatonna man was charged with felony sexual assault in Olmsted County, he was arrested in Owatonna and is now facing felony theft of firearm charges as well.

As usual, you'll be able to chow down on fat-laden chili dogs, cheese curds and funnel cakes at this year's Olmsted County Fair.

Being well-off and well-educated may improve your chances of surviving a heart attack, according to new report.

This year's Olmsted County Fair will be smoke-free - even in outdoor areas like the midway.

Authorities in southeastern Minnesota say five children discovered a backpack with a handgun inside.

We don't have many castles in this part of the world. Most of them are in Europe.

Up to five hundred families in the Rochester school district could soon have their hands on a free computer.

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Prosecutors in southern Minnesota want charges reinstated for a Mankato man who had been accused of injuring his baby boy shortly after he was separated from his conjoined twin.

An Olmsted County judge had dismissed a first-degree assault charge against 28-year-old Robert Lee Heck. The judge said there wasn't enough evidence for the charge.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals will hear the case July 15.

Doctors at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester discovered that 2-month-old Jordan James had multiple broken bones on his legs, arms and ribs. It happened after Jordan had been released from the Mayo Clinic where he was separated from his twin brother Jacob.

When Olmsted County Master Gardener Jane Yunginger noticed a tall weed with white flowers and heart-shaped leaves growing in a neighboring yard, she became alarmed.

Minnesota DFLers left their state convention in Rochester on Sunday feeling generally upbeat, and a lot of the credit went to candidates that lost this weekend: Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

On her desk, Sue Bublitz keeps a photo of two blonde children smiling and holding a poster board sign that reads "thank you." The little boy and his sister were part of a child protection case Bublitz handled.

Olmsted County authorities are seeking the indefinite commitment of a convicted sex offender who is scheduled to be released from prison next week.