At the end of Gail Nucech’s 44-season coaching career for Hibbing girl’s volleyball, she had a Minnesota-record 884 match victories. On Tuesday, she’ll be inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Normally there are four roads to get to the southern Minnesota town of Henderson, but flooding due to heavy rain has left just one open road to get in and out.
The county says the rain-swollen Blue Earth River has cut around the west side of the dam and there are concerns about debris in the river. Authorities are notifying residents downstream of the dam.
Northeastern Minnesota got a welcome reprieve from Mother Nature Friday. Sunny skies and dry, warm weather helped floodwaters receded in the town of Cook, where Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials visited to tour damage from the flooding that ravaged the small town this week.
The BCA said Chapman drove about two blocks, stopped his car, got out and walked toward Feenstra, holding what the deputy believed was a knife. It turned out to be a nine-inch metal rod. Feenstra fired his handgun, and Chapman died at the scene of multiple gunshot wounds.
Minnesota lawmakers set aside $100,000 for the famous shoes this year. Now the Judy Garland Museum is hoping a benevolent figure can help win them at auction.
According to the soda company, in 1979 Farmington consumed more Mountain Dew per capita than anywhere in the country. Mountain Dew helped them celebrate the news. Fast-forward to the annual summer festival, 45 years strong.
Seventy-four-year-old Robert Ringstrom was police chief of Sartell until he retired in 2004. St. Joseph police said he was riding his bike last Friday when he was struck and killed.