Hampton News

Best in Show at the Shell Rotella SuperRigs competition was a 2007 Peterbilt owned by Brad Caton of Hampton, Minn.

WEST TO DENNISON, STANTON, AND NEW MARKET. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE, STANTON.

Utilities planning to build three power lines through Minnesota are now proposing a different route for a 345-kilovolt transmission line that would run between Hampton, Minn., and La Crosse, Wis.

Ted Cooka s hit to lead off the sixth inning broke up Augie Lindmarka s no-hit bid, but that was all Stewartville-Racine could manage off the left-hander from Luther College.

Authorities are blaming arson for a fire that destroyed Ravenna's town hall early Wednesday.

A child goes missing. A gangster is on the loose. There's a fire at the refinery, and the floodwaters are rising.

In response to growing energy demands throughout the region, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has approved a Certificate of Need for the CapX2020 project, which recognizes the demand for three 345-kilovolt electric transmission lines, two of which Otter Tail Power Company is involved with.

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Thursday gave CapX2020 utilities a green light to construct three 345-kilovolt electric transmission lines in Minnesota - " including one that goes through Douglas County.

It happened during a New Year's festival attended by about 2,000 people. At least two people exchanged gunfire in a parking area just west of the temple.

The Dakota County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting that happened during a celebration at the Cambodian Temple in Hampton.

There were gunshots fired but no injuries when an argument apparently got out of hand Saturday afternoon at the Cambodian Buddhist Temple in Hampton.

Tania Fay Pryor owned five HR Block tax preparation businesses in the metro and a Hastings day care.

Wendy Wulff of Lakeville, a self-employed web designer and Lakeville City Council member, has been named to fill the District 16 seat on the Metropolitan Council.

Opponents who question the safety of a 345-kilovolt power line proposed to run from near Brookings, S.D., to a Hampton substation in Dakota County say they want route changes to move it away from where clusters of people live.

For months, area electric utility companies Great River Energy, Xcel Energy, along with nine others from the Dakotas to Wisconsin, have held public meetings to explain a proposed power line expansion project called CapX2020.

Metro counties will host township elections today from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. In Dakota County, contested races will be held in the townships of Castle Rock, Greenvale, Hampton, Nininger and Ravenna.

Co-owner Charlie Wiederholt of Wiederholt's Supper Club in Miesville, Mn., left, chats with former employee and longtime customer Agnes Hoffman who celebrated her birthday with extended family at Wiederholt's ...

Submitted by Mathias Baden on January 22, 2009 - 5:00am. Shannon Fiecke of the Shakopee Valley News reports: A coalition of Minnesota utilities has selected a route passing through southern Scott County where ...

PROPER ALIGNMENT Under the watchful eye of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Representative Corey Boyer , crews from Park Construction of Hampton, Minn.

Judith G. Wersal Evjen, age 68, of Hampton, passed away on Dec. 13th, 2008, after a long battle with diabetic complications.