Mankato News

An investigation into a rash of graffiti incidents reported on June 26 has been wrapped up with the arrest of the last suspect Wednesday.

A North Mankato man familiar with the legal system is set to appear in court again on Monday...The case is regarding an environmental issue that has dragged on for over six years.Dennis Turtle and his wife, Mary Jeanne own Riverbend Estates Mobile Home Park.Several times in the past six years the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has inspected the ...

North Mankato's annual summer festival kicks off tonight.The 44th Annual Fun Days got underway this evening with a carnival and Radio Mankato Family Night.Events and activities run from now through Sunday... highlights will include the Fun Days parade Saturday morning and fireworks Sunday night.For a complete schedule, just go to our website and ...

A group of 64 south-central Minnesota schools has aligned itself with area colleges and universities to teach social studies teachers about American history.

Officials in North Mankato expect to know by fall how much it will cost to recertify the soundness of the city's flood walls.

A North Mankato man is arrested after causing a stir for riding around Mankato with an assault rifle on his back.Mankato Public Safety arrested 25 year old Justin Lietha shortly after 10:00 last night.Police say he was riding his bike down Riverfront Drive with an SKS semi automatic assault rifle on his back.The weapon's magazine was empty.Lietha ...

Ken Mills, the bear-hugging former president of South Central College who was fiercely optimistic about life and its opportunities, died Saturday at his Wisconsin home after battling cancer.

MANKATO, Minn. - The passenger train that rolled out of the Mankato downtown depot Friday afternoon, heading north on a line that goes to St.

Meg Cabot doesn't often travel long distances for onion sandwiches. The author of more than 50 young adult and adult novels - including the wildly popular "Princess Diaries" which was adapted for the silver screen - Cabot has sold more than 15 million copies of her books worldwide.

A total of 162 riders packed a special passenger train that the Union Pacific ran from Mankato to just north of St.

Tom McLaughlin was in Vietnam for the Fourth of July in 1967, and he had a story that ended on that day - a story he wanted to tell to the small group of Mankato-area residents who showed up Friday at Military Honors Day.

A Mankato woman has won the HickoryTech Phone Book cover contest. The photograph, taken by amateur photographer Jennifer Prochaska, will appear on the cover of the HickoryTech 2009-10 Phone Book.

KARE11.com updated July 3, 2009 ST. PAUL, Minn. -- After a deadly Memorial Day weekend on Minnesota roads, authorities are stepping up patrols for drunken drivers over the Independence Day holiday.

Read the test scores With results from the state's standardized assessment freshly in hand and only two months before school starts, the race is on for school officials to turn their mounds of data into tools for student achievement.

Adrienne Nesser, living in Mankato in her early 20s, had a long-distance friendship and flirtation with a guy so interested in her, he and his band planned tours around Minnesota just so he could see her.

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A law passed last year that makes it a felony to attempt to take a firearm from a law enforcement officer is being used against a St.

Good evening and thanks for joining us, I'm Betsy Gessell.A Mankato man originally accused of six felony counts for allegedly sexually assaulting a female victim while holding a knife reaches a plea deal on just one of those felony counts.Now, his victim is speaking out... saying the deal the county reached with her attacker is quote "a joke"...Fox ...

Assault charges are being requested for a 19-year-old Mankato man who allegedly assaulted his former girlfriend after a chase involving cars.

A Nashville, Tennessee based music group with a single currently on the country charts makes a stop in North Mankato this afternoon... The group "TelluRide" stopped in at Country 103.5 to perform an acoustic show today.