Mankato

One person is confirmed dead after a police standoff in North Mankato led to a shooting. Police released few details about the shooting that came after a three-hour standoff at a home on the North Mankato hilltop Thursday.

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Minnesota State University, Mankato, has reassigned a football coach who was cleared of child pornography charges last month.

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Hundreds of people have turned out in Mankato to mark the 150th anniversary of the hanging of 38 Dakota men - the largest mass execution in U.S. history.

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A Minnesota man made a tearful plea for leniency before a judge sentenced him to just over four years in prison for a crash that killed two people, including a woman with whom he allegedly was having sex while driving.

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A Minnesota judge has dismissed child pornography charges against a college football head coach accused of making pornographic videos of his children.

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Health officials have traced the source of a norovirus outbreak in Mankato to an ill or recently ill food service worker or workers.

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Mankato teenager Shelby Tweten wowed the judges during Wednesday night's episode of American Idol. She sang former Idol Carrie Underwood's song Temporary Home. You'll be seeing a lot more of her too, she advanced on to the Hollywood round.

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A Mankato television news anchor has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving two weeks after her on-air broadcast raised questions about her sobriety.

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Mankato police are looking for the driver who hit and rolled over a woman, then took off. Nancy Benshoof was crossing an access road in the Immanuel St. Joseph's-Mayo Health System parking lot about 7 a.m. Friday. She says the car hit her, then "stopped right on top" of her.

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