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The Hauser family’s media ride climaxes with … a ride home, provided by the media. Las Vegas-based Asgaard Media got Colleen Hauser and her cancer-stricken son Daniel off the lam, onto a chartered red-eye flight and home to Sleepy Eye, Minn., by 3 a.m. Monday. The film company distributed a video interview with the pair, who had fled Minnesota for California, Mexico or parts unknown to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy. The boy saw doctors in the Twin Cities yesterday and a Brown County judge reviews his case today.

Elsewhere in Minnesota headlines today … 

RED WING:  Ex-coach, a suspect in town hall fire, may have killed self. A former high school teacher and coach, 45 and beset with Parkinson’s disease, was found dead after going missing from foster care and possibly setting fire to the Midway Town Hall; brain surgery set for June would have reduced his reliance on a drug that made him erratic. [Red Wing Republican Eagle]

RED WING: 45-foot boat + 60 mph = 13 wet and injured. Drink wasn’t a factor — but the watercraft’s stern losing contact with the Mississippi River may have been. [Red Wing Republican Eagle]

TWIN CITIES: Damn the dams – make the metro Mississippi wild again. The departing Ford Motor Company doesn’t need its St. Paul dam, and barge traffic’s dropping, so some advocate returning the river to rapids. [MinnPost]

NORTHFIELD: At St. Olaf, Paulsen protest not apparent. U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen’s college graduation speech was “pure chloroform,” according to one critic. [Gavin Sullivan]

STATEWIDE: Minnesota pols take to Twitter. The mass-messaging medium has 30 Minnesota lawmakers in its grip, including Paulsen, who says it’s “a mistake” to resist what one of his colleagues calls “The Twitter.” [St. Paul Pioneer Press; Politico]

BEMIDJI: Sales tax to help kids learn native languages. The state will spend $1.25 million in new Legacy Act funds on an “emergency-type situation” — creating new Ojibwe and Dakota speakers. [Bemidji Pioneer]