Tuesday, May 21 2013 11:49 PM EDT2013-05-22 03:49:49 GMT
Victoria Charnaud shared her bed with all three of her children when they were newborns, including Lucy who is three months old. She believes co–sleeping creates an emotional bond between parents and
The finding comes from the largest study yet on crib death.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 10:55 PM EDT2013-05-22 02:55:48 GMT
Today marks the beginning of the Roundabout Ready Campaign designed to help educate drivers on navigating through multi-lane roundabouts. Spending a few minutes waiting at the stoplight at the intersection
The Highway 22 project is a collaboration between MnDOT, Blue Earth County and the City of Mankato, which will include multilane roundabouts.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 8:08 PM EDT2013-05-22 00:08:51 GMT
Members of the Minnesota Republican caucus arrived at the Mankato Regional Airport to discuss their take on the recent legislative session. After the 2013 session came to a close at midnight, the Minnesota
Minority leaders object to tax increases, Vikings Stadium bailout and pretty much everything else
Tuesday, May 21 2013 8:08 PM EDT2013-05-22 00:08:04 GMT
After six months of writing back and forth to their senior citizen pen pals the students of Bridges Community School got to meet with their correspondents.
After six months of writing back and forth to their senior citizen pen pals the students of Bridges Community School got to meet with their correspondents.
The electronic pull tabs industry that the state will rely on to help pay for the $975 million Vikings stadium has been slow going. However, the traditional pull tabs have been pulling in a lot of profits.
Over the past five years Minnesota has sold nearly $5 billion worth of pulltabs.
More than 900 million dollars were spent on pull tabs last year alone. Eagles gambling manager Mike Blanck says in the past 18 months he's seen a significant increase in sales.
Blanck says, "you always like to have an increase you know a certain percentage of growth from year to year and hopefully they'll continue to you know go upwards."
Although sales aren't where they were before the recession, they seem to be on the right track. Another bonus, the increase profits from his pulltabs go back out to the community through donations to various organizations like the 77 Lancers.
Lancer's Director, Brady Krusemark says, "The Lancers as an organization gives local youth the opportunity to perform and travel around Minnesota and the country and represent Mankato and that's due in part to local donations. Without them it wouldn't be possible."
Last year the Eagles Club raised more than one hundred thousand dollars from its pull tab sales to go toward charities and local organizations
