Waseca News

Skies turned dark and the rain came down in torrents as severe storms rumbled across eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

Both the Twin Cities and the state topped historical high temperatures today. Minneapolis beat the record of 95 degrees set in 1932 by topping out at 98, according to Shawn DeVinny, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Office in Chanhassen.

LE SUEUR COUNTY, MN - Two men are facing drug charges in LeSueur County after selling more than 230 doses of ecstasy to authorities.

In the same room as the Brodmann piano, the Monopoly board and a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Connie Perry keeps her business.

A 32-year-old woman, who's incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institute in Waseca, Minn., pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing more than $23,000 in social security benefits.

RURAL STEELE CO. Minn. - Even though Shane Wilson, the Faribault man accused of stabbing his girlfriend last Saturday, was captured within 24 hours of the incident, some residents in the rural area where he was caught were still upset that they weren't notified he was in the area.

A Minneapolis man is facing first-degree burglary charges and possibly more after authorities arrested him in a Waseca home.