DODGE COUNTY FREE FAIR SCHEDULE CHANGES FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 14
CANCELED: Enduro Races, LP & The 45s
MOVED TO FRIDAY: Cow milking and fireworks

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It is high school commencement season and speakers are preparing the words of wisdom to pass on to the 2021 Senior Class. It must be a daunting task to create an address that can captivate exuberant teenagers who are more interested in attending post-graduation parties than listening to a speech given by someone they will forget before their five-year class reunion. Besides, after having adults giving them instruction for 13 years, they know t

Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an altercation and stabbing Thursday evening near Byron Middle School. One person was stabbed and transported to Mayo Clinic-Saint Marys Campus and two individuals are in custody, according to reports.

Dodge County Sheriff Scott Rose has released the name of the individual who died in a fire this morning at the Chestnut Apartments in Mantorville.
“As of 4:50 p.m. today we have one confirmed fatality from the apartment building fire this morning. Our victim, 68-year-old Cynthia Ferguson, lived in apartment #11. Cause of death is unknown at this time.

An early morning fire at an apartment building in Mantorville has resulted in one known fatality and at least 5 people transported to Saint Marys in Rochester, according to Sheriff Scott Rose.

The Lois Riess murder investigation will be featured in a two-hour “Dateline NBC” Friday night. The show begins at 8 p.m.
 
Riess is serving a life sentence in a Shakopee prison after pleading guilty last August to killing her husband in their rural Blooming Prairie home in March 2018.
 
She also killed another woman whom she befriended in Florida after being on the run from killing her husband.