The weekend anchor at KEYC-TV in Mankato, Minn., is drawing national attention on the Internet after a Sunday night broadcast in which she slurred her speech and stumbled over her words.

Annie Stensrud was on the main page of the Huffington Post’s media section Wednesday. The national Internet news source had one of its quick polls next to her name.

The question: “Is this anchor drunk?” The two answers to chose from: “Definitely!” and “No way.”

It was a question KEYC watchers in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa had been asking one another since Sunday night.

The CBS affiliate’s 10 p.m. newscast started about 15 minutes late because of a football game, with a blurry-eyed Stensrud stumbling over her words. Her words became more slurred and mixed up as she read through stories about a new medical center in New Ulm and an event at Farmamerica, a farm interpretive center in Waseca.

Her broadcast ended abruptly after about three minutes. When news returned after a commercial break, it was filled with weather and sports segments. Stensrud was not seen again and didn’t appear in the closing shot, as she usually does, with meteorologist Mitch Keegan and weekend sports anchor Erick Lind.

The station’s news broadcasts Monday and Tuesday made no mention of the incident. That changed Wednesday after Stensrud’s segment was loaded on to YouTube and picked up by the Huffington Post and other sites.

KEYC news director Dan Ruiter said viewers are jumping to conclusions if they assume Stensrud was intoxicated. There is no proof of that, he said.

In an official statement released Wednesday, Dennis Wahlstrom, KEYC vice president and general manager, declined to say whether Stensrud is still working at the station.

“Sunday night’s uncharacteristic newscast on KEYC Mankato can hardly be considered private,” Wahlstrom said in his written statement. “Nonetheless, in our judgment, the matter represents a personnel issue to be resolved internally.”

The Internet life of Stensrud’s broadcast began on the Rants & Raves section of Mankato’s Craigslist. The first post was within a half-hour after the broadcast was over. Before 1 a.m. Monday, someone made a post saying he or she had a digital recording of the broadcast.

Two days of posts explaining how to load the recording on YouTube followed. Someone loaded the video on Craigslist early Wednesday, and the Huffington Post picked it up Wednesday afternoon.

Other sources also posted the video, including The Onion’s A.V. Club entertainment site and Gawker, which asked, “Is This News Anchor Drunk or Just Minnesotan?”

The video was reminiscent of another YouTube video that made the rounds in February with a headline suggesting a television journalist reporting live from the Grammy Awards was under the influence. It turned out the woman was suffering a “complex migraine” on the air.