Renville County News

Citizens from Fairfax, Franklin and Morton met with officials from the University of Minnesota Center for Changing Landscapes Nov.

The community gives its gratitude to the medical center for getting the ball rolling at the Vitality Center in downtown Albert Lea.

A woman who backed a minivan over a tent at a southern Minnesota campground and killed a baby has been sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison.

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Olivia Cenex at 1208 West Lincoln in Olivia, Minnesota will be holding a Grand Opening celebration on Wednesday, November 4 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. E85 will sell for 85 cents off the original price per gallon and Biodiesel will sell for 20 cents off per gallon.

Oct. 9--Pork producers lost as much as $35 on every pig they sold last month, according to Ronald Plain, a University of Missouri ag economist who closely monitors the numbers of the U.S. swine industry.

A four wheeler accident in Renville County last night leaves a 16 year old boy dead.The Renville County Sheriff's Department says two teenage boys riding on a four wheeler together crashed on Renville County Road 21 just south of County Road 15.The 15 year old driver was transported to the Redwood Area Hospital with undetermined injuries.The ...

Danube Police Chief Lester Schneider Jr., 39, and his spouse, Jammie Jean Schneider, 38, both of Danube, made their first appearances Thursday in district court in Renville County.

Police in Bird Island are investigating reports of a suspicious man following children around the Renville County Fair on Aug.

The Bird Island Police Department is investigating after reports that man at the Renville County fair allegedly attempted to grab a child from behind a stage and followed some children around the fairgrounds.The police department says the incidents were reported to have happened early Friday evening.They say authorities from across the area ...

Severe Thunderstorms moving through southern Minnesota last night including parts of the Twin Cities Metro area produced heavy rainfall and hail.

Some boys just don't want to do their assigned chores at Boy Scout camp, but James Wertish wasn't one of them.

The best bargain in Renville County on July 24 will be the annual Farm-City Breakfast hosted by the Renville County Farm Bureau.

St. Paul, Minn. -- A public information meeting on the proposed reissuance of the Renville County landfill operating permit is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, at the Renville County Office Building in Olivia.

Officials say that charges will likely be filed today against Nicolle Prechel who is suspect of being drunk as she drove a van over a tent at a campground over the weekend killing a four-month old baby boy.

We now know the name of the woman driving a van that allegedly ran over a four month old infant boy and his mother.The Renville County Sheriff's Department says the infant died after he and his mother were run over at a campground Sunday morning.The Sheriff's Department says they received the call at about 8:40 Sunday morning from a park located a ...

Share + Jul 9, 2009 12:15 pm US/Central OLIVIA, Minn. 1 of 1 Thirty-one-year-old Nicolle Prechel can be released on $200,000 bail if she agrees to certain conditions, such as remaining in the state and having no contact with the infant's parents.

Good evening and thanks for joining us, I'm Betsy Gessell.The woman who allegedly ran over a tent killing a four - month - old boy and injuring his mother makes her first court appearance in Renville County today.Fox Mankato's Carly Aplin has the details from today's arraignment.A full courtroom watched as Nicole Prechel listened to the judge read ...

Four-month-old Wyatt Sander of Redwood Falls, Minn., was a cousin to the woman now charged with three counts of criminal vehicular homicide in his death.

Share + Jul 7, 2009 1:22 pm US/Central 1 of 1 Whyatt Sander, just 4 months old, was killed on Sunday after a woman, Nicolle Prechel, backed over the tent that he and his parents were in.