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Lakes Radio News Stories:
BODY FOUND-MINNEAPOLIS AIRPORT
Body of contractor found in utility area at MSP
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) - Authorities are investigating the
death of a contractor whose body was found at Minneapolis-St. Paul
International Airport.
KSTP-TV reports airport police and Hennepin County sheriff's
deputies found the body of 52-year-old Robert Germundson about noon
Saturday.
The body was in Concourse E above the ceiling where utilities
are located.
Airport spokesman Pat Hogan says family members had contacted
authorities after Germundson did not return home from work Friday.
An official with Premier Electric tells the station that
Germundson supervised electric crews and had worked for the company
since 1985.
The cause of death hasn't been released, but authorities say it
does not appear to be foul play.
ATV death
9-4-2010
A fatal ATV
rollover accident occurred near Underwood Friday night.
A press
release from the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office says the
accident was
reported about 6:20 on 312th Ave .
An ATV with three passengers rolled
over. A 15 year old was transported to
Lake Region
Hospital with fatal internal injuries.
The 15year
old is from Shakopee, MN. The name has not been released.
Henning Area Theft
09-03-10
The Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the theft
of several items from a Henning area residence. Authorities say a
riding lawn mower, 15 horsepower outboard boat motor, a snow blower and
fishing equipment are missing from the residence located on Blackjack
Drive. The items were taken sometime over the past three weeks.
Sugar beet co-ops
anticipating record yields
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Sugar beet cooperatives in the Red River
Valley of eastern North Dakota and northwest Minnesota say yields
this year could set records.
That means farmers might not be allowed to harvest all of their
acres.
American Crystal Sugar Co. tells the Grand Forks Herald that
yields are averaging 20 tons per acre. Yields for Minn-Dak Farmers
Cooperative are running in the mid-20s. Those are high numbers for
this early in the harvest.
Factories can process only so many beets, so sometimes beets
have to be plowed under.
Crystal spokesman Jeff Schweitzer says that co-op will decide
whether all of the planted acres will be harvested after the
harvest is fully under way. Minn-Dak spokesman Tom Knudsen says
that co-op's growers were cautioned early that cutbacks might be
necessary.
Fargo's Innovis Health to
change name
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Another health care system in Fargo is
changing its name.
The Forum says Innovis Health is changing to Essentia Health, to
be named after its parent company. Innovis merged with Duluth,
Minn.-based Essentia in 2008.
The new name and logo is expected to be visible within the next
few months.
MeritCare changed its name to Sanford Health-MeritCare and then
just Sanford Health after the merger last year of those two health
systems.
2 sought in FL killings
waive extradition from MN
WINONA, Minn. (AP) - Two fugitives arrested in Minnesota on
suspicion of killing three people in Florida have waived
extradition back to Florida.
Authorities say 38-year-old James Lindsey Howze, of O'Brien,
Fla., and 47-year-old Lonnie Robert Munn, of Live Oak, Fla., will
be held in Winona until they are retrieved by Florida law
enforcement.
The two were sleeping in a camper and offered no resistance when
a SWAT team arrrested them early Thursday at Whitewater State Park
in southeastern Minnesota.
The two are charged in the fatal shootings of 57-year-old Joseph
Militello Jr., his 68-year-old wife, Nancy Militello, and their
32-year-old nephew, Angelo Rosales, at their Suwannee County home
Aug. 26. Florida authorities say robbery was the motive.
AUTO DEALER-BAIL
Ex-auto mogul Hecker accused of bail violations
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to
send fallen Twin Cities auto mogul Denny Hecker back to jail.
In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors accuse Hecker of
committing new crimes while free on bail as he awaits trial on 24
counts of bankruptcy fraud and wire fraud.
Hecker allegedly concealed more than $150,000 in insurance
checks in defiance of court orders and used the money to pay
country club dues and to lease a car. Prosecutors also question
whether taxpayers should continue to pay Hecker's lawyers.
Hecker's attorney, Brian Toder, told WCCO-TV things don't look
good for Hecker, who's free until a hearing set for Wednesday.
Toder says judges tend to throw defendants in jail when prosecutors
make this kind of a request.
Hecker has pleaded not guilty. His trial is set for Oct. 18.
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