New Ulm News Archives - Page 3 of 76

October 24, 2024

ARREST MADE IN ARLINGTON DRUG INVESTIGATION

On Tuesday, the Sibley County Sheriff’s Office in partnership with the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport Police Department conducted an investigation into illegal narcotics activity at the Shamrock Apartments in Arlington. A narcotics-related search warrant was conducted in the apartment and 19-year-old Asael Pedraza was arrested and charged with felony controlled substance crime in the third degree. […]

October 24, 2024

BROWN COUNTY BURNING BAN STILL IN EFFECT

The Burning Ban is still in place in Brown County. Sheriff Jason Seidl says burning restrictions went into effect October 2. No open burning of CRP land and/or ditches or brush piles is permitted. Recreational campfires are permitted but must be contained in a ring of either cement, rock, brick or metal and must be […]

October 24, 2024

CHARGES EXPECTED IN KANDIYOHI COUNTY SHOOTINGS

A Minneapolis man could be charged today (Thursday) in a pair of shootings in Kandiyohi County that left one victim dead and another wounded. Investigators say the 25-year-old suspect fatally shot 55-year-old Jerome Skluzacek of New London during a carjacking attempt on the south side of Willmar Tuesday. Several Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s deputie witnesses the […]

October 24, 2024

Plenty of Halloween Festivities in St. Peter this Weekend

St. Peter Administrator Todd Prafke explains the Haunted Hayride this Friday and Saturday in St. Peter. The Halloween Run is also this Saturday morning sponsored by St. Peter Chamber of Commerce.

October 23, 2024

COURTLAND INCIDENT CAUSES POWER OUTAGE FOR SOME

Part of the city of Courtland experienced a power outage Tuesday night. Maintenance and utilities supervisor and fire chief Dave Ubel says around 9:45 there was a large flash on one end of town that then went throughout town knocking down power lines and causing small fires in town. Ubel estimates there were lines down […]

October 23, 2024

Sheriff Jason Seidl

Brown County Sheriff, Jason Seidl talks Halloween safety and cyper security during his monthly visit.

October 23, 2024

New Ulm Veterans Day Observance will be at New Ulm High School

Brown County Veterans Services Officer Greg Peterson announced New Ulm’s Veterans Day Program will be Monday, November 11, 10:00am at New Ulm High School. MVL’s Veterans Program is scheduled for Wednesday, November 6. On Sunday, November 10, Veterans Celebration Program at State Street Theater. Starting at 2pm, there will be a guest speaker, artifacts and […]

October 23, 2024

Kiersten Hanson

The DNR Media Specialist talks upcoming hunting seasons and now is the time to visit a State Park.

October 23, 2024

NO ONE HURT IN ONE-VEHICLE CRASH ON BROADWAY

New Ulm police were called to a one-vehicle crash a 8:04 Tuesday morning on the 1500 block of North Broadway. Police say 20-year-old Lucas Compton of Bloomington was driving a Subaru Outback northbound when he lost control, went into the median, hit a sign, then went back into the northbound lane and onto the curb […]

October 23, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS MAN SHOOTS TWO, KILLS ONE IN KANDIYOHI COUNTY

A series of violent incidents that started in Minneapolis ended in Willmar with one in custody and two people shot. Authorities say everything started around 12:30 pm when a man involved in a domestic situation on Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis fired shots from a balcony. The man fled west and ended up in Kandiyohi […]