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The Brown County Board on Tuesday unanimously denied an economic development tax abatement request for a new agriculture testing facility in New Ulm. Frontier Labs has proposed renovating and expanding a vacant building in the …
10 Jan 13
The New Ulm District 88 School Board holds its first meeting of the New Year this (THU) evening. The meeting will begin with newly-elected board members Sharon Gieseke, Jill Hulke and Matt Ringhofer taking the …
10 Jan 13
Former US Senator Norm Coleman says that he will not be seeking a rematch with Senator Al Franken in 2014. Coleman announced the decision on Wednesday. He lost to Democrat Franken by a few hundred …
10 Jan 13
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie announced this week that 2012 saw the second highest number of new business filings in the state’s history. Ritchie says that a total of 60,827 new businesses were filed …
10 Jan 13
A 23-year-old Mankato man accused of savagely beating an Owatonna man and leaving him for dead last July will serve at least 10 years in prison for the crime. Dustin Lee Murilla was sentenced to …
09 Jan 13
The seasonal flu continues to sicken hundreds around the local area. The Department of Health’s Kris Ehresman says that cases of the flu in south-central Minnesota are much higher than other regions of the state. …
09 Jan 13
Jury selection is scheduled to begin today (WED) in the trial of a Hutchinson man accused of killing a Little Falls man in October of 2011. Thirty-seven-year-old Jason Dominguez is charged with first and second …
09 Jan 13
The criminal trial of an eye doctor accused of sexually assaulting two of his patients got underway on Tuesday. Todd Gavin is facing two felony and two gross misdemeanor charges for allegedly having the female …
09 Jan 13
The warm, dry weather of the past week gave farmers their best opportunity yet for fieldwork this season. Around 5 days were suitable for fieldwork last week in Minnesota. That let corn planting advance by …
