The Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Minnesota State Patrol will close Highway 99 east of Highway 169 in St. Peter into Le Sueur around 1 p.m. due to flooding.
Traffic is advised to use LeSueur County Road 21 and Highway 22 as an alternate route.
Scaffold timber was really from bridge, historical society says
A timber beam held in storage by the Blue Earth County Historical Society is not part of the scaffold used to hang 38 Dakota Indians in 1862, Executive Director Jessica Potter said Friday.
Sculptors create horse and sleigh from ice for Waseca Sleigh and Cutter Festival
A 30-year-old Mankato man was taken to the hospital after his pickup truck crashed into a South Bend Township nursing home's lobby Thursday night.
MURRAY: Over-the-top kid at heart
Claeys, Dorothy, services 11 a.m. at Our Lady of the Prairie Catholic Church
in Belle Plaine.
Eastman, Jane, services 10:30 a.m. at Evangelical Free Church in North
Mankato.
Fitterer, Laurel, services 10 a.m. at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in North
Mankato.
Hogan, Judith, services 10:30 a.m. at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church
in Mankato.
Larsen, Evelyn, service 11 a.m. at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Odin.
Monahan, Shirley Ann, services 10 a.m. at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Le
Sueur.
Pirsig, Mildred, services 2 p.m. at Patton Funeral Home in Blue Earth.
Soeffler, Bernice, services 11 a.m. at Peace Lutheran Church in Arlington.
Vee, Ruth, services 11 a.m. at Bricelyn Lutheran Church.
If it weren’t for a tiny glimpse or two on camera Thursday night, and her mom’s confirmation on Facebook, the world wouldn’t have known that North Mankato’s Shelby Tweten advanced on “American Idol” again this week. The West High School student has made it to the most infamous challenge of the season: “group round.”
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