Browns Valley News

It took 15 rounds, but Mia Martinez, a seventh-grader from Detroit Lakes, won the Region 4 Spelling Bee when she correctly spelled "precipitate." Cody Coleman from Osakis won first runner-up honors with the word "gazpacho." The additional three spellers who will advance to the state competition are Sammie Lankow of Rothsay, Matthew Bittmann of ... (more)

The South Dakota Highway Patrol says Peyton St. John, of Browns Valley, Minn., was a passenger in a car with two other men when the driver of the northbound car lost control along Marshal County 16 Tuesday.

The dog days of summer can be more than uncomfortable, they can be deadly. A closed up car on a hot day is a prime example.

GOP presidential hopeful and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty today released a list of more than 100 Minnesotans who have endorsed him.