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The Nicollet County Sheriff’s Office received a call for a house fire in Ridgely Township Thursday afternoon. Fairfax Fire and Ambulance responded at shortly after 4:30pm, and found the residence off Highway 4 completely engulfed …
03 Nov 12
A Mankato woman was charged with felony aiding and abetting burglary in Brown County Court this week over allegations that she helped a group of juveniles burglarize the Sleepy Eye Dairy Queen. 28-year-old Larissa M. …
03 Nov 12
Daylight Savings time ends at 2am on Sunday, so don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour before heading to bed tonight (SAT). Bob Dahm with the State Fire Marshal’s office says it’s also …
03 Nov 12
Xcel Energy is asking for a more than 10% increase in electric rates. The utility says it needs $285-million in extra revenue to pay for investments in nuclear power plants and a stronger grid. Xcel …
03 Nov 12
Four felony charges of criminal vehicular operation were filed Thursday against a 21-year-old Cokato man already facing multiple counts of criminal vehicular homicide for a triple-fatality car crash near Willmar in August. The additional charges …
02 Nov 12
The Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Office is investigating break-ins at multiple bars around the county. Authorities say that the bar in Good Thunder and the Municipal Bar in Mapleton were both broken into overnight Wednesday …
02 Nov 12
It was a colder than normal October. Assistant State Climatologist Pete Boulay says the month ended nearly two-degrees below normal. As for precipitation, some areas of Minnesota received some badly needed rain last month. But …
02 Nov 12
The Minnesota State Patrol is conducting a statewide saturation on Highway 169 today (FRI). Troopers in the St. Peter and Mankato areas will be working with other districts to conduct high-visibility patrols during the high-traffic …
02 Nov 12
The warm, dry weather of the past week gave farmers their best opportunity yet for fieldwork this season. Around 5 days were suitable for fieldwork last week in Minnesota. That let corn planting advance by …
