KTOE Noon News 2-12-25

Top Stories for Noon 2-12-25

• Blue Earth County Hosting CSAH 15, CSAH 28, and Schalow Drive Reconstruction Open House

• A Minnesota non-profit is launching an initiative to install outdoor AED cabinets in the Mankato and North Mankato area in memory of Faith Larsen.

• Minnesota Milk hosts annual meeting and Dairy Day at the Capitol

• The federal Feeding Our Future fraud trial resumes today in Hennepin County Court in Minneapolis. The defendant is Aimee Bock, the founder and former executive director of the nonprofit. A Faribault restaurant owner testified yesterday that she paid an associate of Bock 30-thousand dollars a month for Feeding Our Future’s sponsorship in a federal program to provide meals to children during the pandemic. She also told jurors how she falsely claimed to serve a thousand children per day at the direction of Bock. The defendant has been charged with multiple felonies for allegedly organizing the large pay-for-play scheme that involved dozens of co-conspirators. Bock has denied the allegations.