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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.