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A Mankato, Minn., man is facing several charges after he allegedly beat a woman so severely that police officers “couldn’t see her eyes.” The suspect, 23-year-old Paul Peter Jal, was “upset” because the victim was “wearing an American flag shirt,” a criminal complaint says. Jal is facing charges of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, third-degree assault, threats of violence, disrupting a 911 call, and damage to property. The complaint says Mankato police responded to an apartment residence around 4:15 a.m. Oct. 2 after 911 received a call from a woman who was “screaming” as a male voice and “thumping...

Millie Weaver 🇺🇸 @Millie__Weaver Breaking: FBI agents just surrounded Mike Lindell and executed a search warrant seizing his cell phone! 4:47 PM · Sep 13, 2022 ·Twitter Web App Millie Weaver 🇺🇸 @Millie__Weaver · 7m Replying to @Millie__Weaver "We stoped out of no where at an Arby's in Mankato, Minnesota and they (The FBI) came out of nowhere." -Mike Lindell

The Mankato School Board voted unanimously earlier this month for a policy that may grant additional pay exclusively to non-white teachers. The board is chaired by Jodi Sapp, who previously came under fire for requiring concerned parents to dox themselves in order to comment on school matters. Under her leadership, the board voted to amend district policy so that non-white teachers only may receive “additional stipends” to become mentors to other non-white colleagues. The new policy will also have the district “placing American Indian educators at sites with other American Indian educators and educators of color at sites with other...

NORTH MANKATO, Minn. (AP) -- A wholesale printing company in southern Minnesota says it's eliminating 114 positions. Carlson Craft of North Mankato made the layoffs Thursday in its effort to adapt to the current economic downturn. Besides the economy, General Manager Barb Kaus says in a statement that consumers' needs have changed, and that the restructuring is needed to focus on new technology. The company, which is part of Taylor Corp., makes printed stationery products and personalized accessories. It was founded as Carlson Letter Service in 1948.

On December 26, 1862, thirty-eight Indians were hanged in a mass execution in downtown Mankato. They were executed for their parts in the Sioux Uprising which took place in August of that year. The Sioux Uprising was a short-lived and bloody conflict that took the lives of many settlers and Indians in the Minnesota River Valley in southern Minnesota. The Sioux Uprising eventually touched off other conflicts between whites and Indians that spread across the Great Plains 'til 1890. A military tribunal originally sentenced 308 Indians to death for their parts in the uprising - but President Lincoln (upon the...

MANKATO, Minn. -- More than 20 American Indians rode into downtown Mankato on horseback while dozens more completed a relay run that began at Fort Snelling to commemorate the 144th anniversary of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. On Monday, the riders, who had set out from the Lower Sioux reservation near Morton four days earlier, formed a circle around four drummers on the site of the execution. Tribal leaders delivered a message of hope, The Free Press reported. "This is not about the chaos of a war,'' said Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, chairman of the Lower Sioux Community. "It's...

MANKATO, Minn. -- A wayward Mexican man who hopped a few wrong trains and ended up in a garbage truck in Mankato is headed back to warmer climates, thanks to the help of strangers. Juan Rivera, 46, left his home in Juarez, Mexico, last week. He slipped into El Paso, Texas and went to Riverside, Calif., to look for a temporary job. When he couldn't find work, he asked someone which train headed back to El Paso. But the train went to the wrong city. So he got on another train, then another. Somehow he ended up in Mankato in...

An apparent gunshot hit a glass pane near the entrance to the Republican Party campaign office in Mankato early Friday, police said. Party members filed a report with police after noticing a small pockmark in the glass Friday morning near the office's entrance in the Madison East Mall.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Aug. 2, 2004) — Which American city had the greatest guffaws or the choicest chuckles? Research commissioned by Shoebox, Hallmark’s irreverent greeting card line, set out to find the hotbeds of humor in America. And coming in at No. 1 … Mankato, Minn. Seriously.

Suspect in missing girl's case a native Laredoan By The Associated Press Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., the man suspected in the disappearance of Dru Sjodin, has been accused of sex crimes before and was a native Laredoan. He wasn't always convicted though. In 1979, he sat in front of a jury facing charges that he followed a woman from a department store to her car and forced her at knifepoint to drive to a remote gravel road. The victim told police Rodriguez raped her twice before ordering her to drive him back. The jury heard testimony and returned a not-guilty verdict,...

October 6th, 2003Mayhem erupts on hilltop Dumpsters, car torched in drunken homecoming riot; 45 face charges By Amanda DyslinFree Press Staff Writer MANKATO — Brian Boothe said he felt like he was standing in the middle of a war zone early Sunday morning near Minnesota State University as fires burned around him and bricks flew through the air at police officers.“I just looked around me at all the students, thousands of them, cheering as they threw bricks and bottles and rocks at police,” said Boothe, an MSU senior. “There was fire everywhere, and everyone was drunk, and I just...