KTOE Noon News 8-5-25

Top Stories for Noon 8-5-25:

• The public is invited to Storybook Park in North Mankato on Tuesday, August 5th from 6-7:30pm for National Night Out! The City will be serving FREE pizza while supplies last and The Wonderful World of Woody will be providing musical entertainment for all ages!
  “This program was made possible in part with a grant from the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment through the Traverse des Sioux Library System.”
• A town in Wabasha County is sheltering in place as a manhunt continues. Deputies say the order is in effect for an area west of Elgin after a Black man fled the scene of a vehicle crash two miles west of the town on Wabasha County Road 25. Canines and drones have been deployed as the search continues with “high law enforcement presence.” All residents within one square mile of the scene are asked to lock down and be alert. Deputies ask anyone with information to call 9-1-1 immediately. No other information has been released.

• Jerry’s Abra Mankato Hosts Future Auto Body Technicians at Youth Transportation Camp

• United Way’s Women with Heart Luncheon Set for Record Turnout Wednesday

• City officials in Mendota Heights say their new speed camera is up and running. It’s part of a state pilot project to stop speeding on residential streets. The thirty-day warning period started this week, which means drivers going more than ten miles per hour over the speed limit will be sent a warning. Police say the goal is to issue very few warnings and even fewer forty-dollar citations after the warning period. Minneapolis plans to begin using speed limit enforcement cameras next month.
• A bear with a jar stuck on its head for over a week in northern Wisconsin is free. The state’s D-N-R received reports for a week of a skinny black bear roaming with a plastic jar stuck on its head. Officials finally pinpointed the two-year-old female bear, tranquilized her, and cut the jar off before relocating and releasing her into the woods. The bear weighed in around eighty pounds, anywhere from thirty to seventy pounds lighter for her age than she should be during the summer. Officials say she began eating berries immediately after her release and received ear tags for later identification.
• Minneapolis Animal Care and Control (MACC) is offering free animal adoptions every Wednesday now through September. This is made possible through a thirteen thousand three hundred dollar grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). This is part of a national campaign to raise awareness about the importance of pet adoption and efforts to place more animals in loving homes. MACC says on average, they have four hundred animals staying in their facility each month. The hours for adoption on Wednesdays are from 1 p.m. until 5:30 p.m.