A person lay dead in a house in the southern part of Owatonna. The shooter asked to speak to the sheriff.
Sheriff Bill Hildebrandt and his deputies knew the gunman too well. He was a repeat offender in the county, and he was assumed to be mentally unstable.
After the school bus crash last month in Cottonwood, Minn., that killed four children, the merits and demerits of mandating seat belts on buses is now on the public’s agenda.
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When he gets excited spit follows the words out of his mouth. “Sorry about that,” he said, while wiping saliva off my shirt. He cannot contain himself because of the “beautiful tag” he saw at the Midway bus yard.
Her boyfriend risks his life every time he clocks in at work. Promises of danger lurk during each hour of the 12 on his shift. Tonight, there may be an armed robbery, a domestic assault, even a murder, God forbid. She asks him to call her before he starts and again when he’s back at home. She prays he’ll make it through the night safely.