AM 1240 WJON » Mankato http://wjon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:38:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 1 Confirmed Dead After Mankato Standoff Shooting http://wjon.com/1-confirmed-dead-after-mankato-standoff-shooting/ http://wjon.com/1-confirmed-dead-after-mankato-standoff-shooting/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:14:18 +0000 The Associated Press http://wjon.com/?p=162074 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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]]> http://wjon.com/1-confirmed-dead-after-mankato-standoff-shooting/feed/ 0 Mankato Coach Cleared of Child Porn Reassigned http://wjon.com/mankato-coach-cleared-of-child-porn-reassigned/ http://wjon.com/mankato-coach-cleared-of-child-porn-reassigned/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:15:15 +0000 The Associated Press http://wjon.com/?p=157959 Minnesota State University, Mankato, has reassigned a football coach who was cleared of child pornography charges last month.

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]]> http://wjon.com/mankato-coach-cleared-of-child-porn-reassigned/feed/ 0 Todd Hoffner Dakota Men Hanged in 1862 Honored in Mankato http://wjon.com/dakota-men-hanged-in-1862-honored-in-mankato/ http://wjon.com/dakota-men-hanged-in-1862-honored-in-mankato/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:13:34 +0000 Abby Faulkner http://wjon.com/?p=157501 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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]]> http://wjon.com/dakota-men-hanged-in-1862-honored-in-mankato/feed/ 0 uhura1701, Flickr Minn. Driver Distracted By Sex Gets Prison Time http://wjon.com/minn-driver-distracted-by-sex-gets-prison-time/ http://wjon.com/minn-driver-distracted-by-sex-gets-prison-time/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:16:43 +0000 The Associated Press http://wjon.com/?p=154436 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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]]> http://wjon.com/minn-driver-distracted-by-sex-gets-prison-time/feed/ 0 Judge Tosses Child Porn Case Against Mankato Coach http://wjon.com/judge-tosses-child-porn-case-against-mankato-coach/ http://wjon.com/judge-tosses-child-porn-case-against-mankato-coach/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:51:02 +0000 The Associated Press http://wjon.com/?p=152010 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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]]> http://wjon.com/judge-tosses-child-porn-case-against-mankato-coach/feed/ 0 Todd Hoffner, Blue Earth County Jail Mankato Sickness Outbreak Linked To Ill Worker http://wjon.com/mankato-sickness-outbreak-linked-to-ill-worker/ http://wjon.com/mankato-sickness-outbreak-linked-to-ill-worker/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:05:03 +0000 The Associated Press http://wjon.com/?p=151372 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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]]> http://wjon.com/mankato-sickness-outbreak-linked-to-ill-worker/feed/ 0 Getty Images Mankato Teens Gets 'Golden Ticket' on American Idol [VIDEO] http://wjon.com/mankato-teens-gets-golden-ticket-on-american-idol-video/ http://wjon.com/mankato-teens-gets-golden-ticket-on-american-idol-video/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:59:58 +0000 Jim Maurice http://wjon.com/?p=70182 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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]]> http://wjon.com/mankato-teens-gets-golden-ticket-on-american-idol-video/feed/ 0 TV Anchor Arrested for DWI After On-Air Falter http://wjon.com/tv-anchor-arrested-for-dwi-after-on-air-falter/ http://wjon.com/tv-anchor-arrested-for-dwi-after-on-air-falter/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:25:00 +0000 Abby Faulkner http://wjon.com/?p=61403 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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]]> http://wjon.com/tv-anchor-arrested-for-dwi-after-on-air-falter/feed/ 0 Annie Stensrud, Facebook Woman Recovering After Hit-And-Run In Mankato http://wjon.com/woman-recovering-after-hit-and-run-in-mankato/ http://wjon.com/woman-recovering-after-hit-and-run-in-mankato/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:16:47 +0000 Jim Maurice http://wjon.com/?p=6041 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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