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Jun 28, 2009 3:05 pm US/Central

Mankato Area Hit By Vandals

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) ― Authorities in the Mankato area continue to investigate a string of vandalism that defaced a school, church and statue last week.

Swear words and profane pictures were spray-painted onto Holy Rosary Catholic Church in North Mankato sometime late Thursday or early Friday. Priest Peter Nosbush says the church worked to quickly remove the graffiti before a wedding over the weekend.

Similar graffiti was also found on a memorial and bandstand in Wheeler Park and on Garfield Elementary School in North Mankato.

In Mankato, several locations were hit — including the buffalo statue at Reconciliation Park, a KFC and the Blue Earth County Library.

Mankato is offering a $500 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the vandal or vandals.

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