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.
 

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A local senate district has flipped to GOP after Gene Dornink of Hayfield unseated veteran DFL Senator Dan Sparks of Austin.
In the Minnesota District 27 race, Dornink appears to have cruised to an easy victory gaining 14,617 votes or 53% compared to 11,015 or 40% for Sparks in Tuesday’s general election.
The race was hotly contested by both parties.

The City of Dodge Center approved a contract last night which will make Josh Tetzlaff there new City Administrator pending his signature and acceptance of the contract.
 
Tetzlaff  is currently pursuing Master’s of Public Administration at UND, currently serving as senior planner for City of Brighton, Colorado.
 

One person was injured March 8 in a vehicle rollover near the Al-Corn Clean Fuel ethanol plant in Claremont.
The semi-truck driver, Donyell Tyrone Roberts, of St. Paul, was heading to the plant when his vehicle rolled on the frontage road near Highway 14 at 120th Avenue (West Street) and 621st Street, according to the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office.