Scott County

Car Found In Lake
Car Found In Lake
Car Found In Lake
Scott County authorities are looking for the owner of a tan Honda Accord that was found in Thole Lake in Louisville Township of Scott County. The car was discovered when a family that was getting ready to go boating. While backing their boat into the water, they hit the car...
Corn Spilled in Scott County
Corn Spilled in Scott County
Corn Spilled in Scott County
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, a driver in a pickup was attempting to make a U-turn on Highway 169 near Delaware Avenue in St. Lawrence Township in Scott County, causing a northbound semi truck to overturn while trying to avoid the pickup and, as a result, the semi spilled its load of corn all over northbound 169...
Elko-New Market Woman Killed
Elko-New Market Woman Killed
Elko-New Market Woman Killed
UPDATE: Mathew Keely Hartley, 33, of Farmington has been charged in the hit and run death of 24-year-old Mollie Mahowald on Sunday morning on Main Street in Elko-New Market. According to KSTP, her friends described her as courageous and outgoing and willing to help out anyone...
Indecent Exposure for Man
Indecent Exposure for Man
Indecent Exposure for Man
After he admitted to numerous counts of indecent exposure, 47-year-old Joseph Gill of rural Le Sueur was arrested and charged. According to the Jordan police department, the incidents allegedly took place in  New Prague, Belle Plaine and Jordan between May and July...
History of 3 Amusement Parks
History of 3 Amusement Parks
History of 3 Amusement Parks
As Valleyfair celebrates 40 years of operation, we look back at some of its Minnesota forerunners. Twin Cities Rapid Transit built street car lines from Lake Harriet to Excelsior. The shores of Lake Minnetonka had many summer residences. There were also year-round homes...
Flash Flood Warning for East-Central Minnesota
Flash Flood Warning for East-Central Minnesota
Flash Flood Warning for East-Central Minnesota
The National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has issued a flash flood warning for southern Washington County, southern Carver County, southeastern Hennepin County, Scott County and Dakota County until 11:45PM. At 8:43PM, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area...
Scott County Judge Reprimanded
Scott County Judge Reprimanded
Scott County Judge Reprimanded
Judge Rex Stacey was publicly reprimanded by the Minnesota Board on Judicial Standards on Tuesday, because they said he had made accusatory, hostile and discourteous comments to litigants in two separate cases. And this is not the first time he has been reprimanded...
Weddings and Wineries
Weddings and Wineries
Weddings and Wineries
The Scott County Board of Commissioners approved some new rules for farm wineries and vineyards on Thursday. These rules were put in place to regulate noise, frequency of events and traffic. According to the Star Tribune, the board voted to allow 15 events at wineries per year which was increase of five over what the county's planning advisory commission recommended...