Blue Earth County News

BLUE EARTH COUNTY - A historic building in Blue Earth county is celebrated today.

MANKATO, Minn. - Union Pacific Railroad and the family of a man killed in a Blue Earth County train crash have reached a legal settlement.

A 65-year-old rural Sleepy Eye woman stopped for speeding on Highway 60 near Madison Lake last Thursday was arrested for methamphetamine possession by a Blue Earth County sheriff's deputy.

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A convicted rapist on Friday lost his bid to gain more freedom from a Minnesota program that confines more than 600 of the state's most dangerous sex offenders after they leave prison.

A woman and three of her friends got on their inner tubes, floated away from the sandy shores of Rapidan Dam Park and started what was going to be a lazy trip down the Blue Earth River on a warm May afternoon.

Divers have recovered the body of a 21-year-old Mankato woman who disappeared while tubing on a southern Minnesota river.

Searchers are trying to find a missing person who was using an inner tube on a southern Minnesota river.

Jennifer Nibbe's Murder case will be held in Blue Earth County when it goes to trial in July.

NORTH MANKATO, Minn. - As the western portion of Blue Earth County was busy draining that evening's rainfall, the eastern portion was still under attack.