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• Motorcycle Accident Kills Scandia Man

  Shannon Weidemann | April 23, 2008 11:35 AM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  A 47-year-old man has died following a motorcycle accident on Sunday evening. He was a resident of Scandia. The victim was driving a motorcycle about 8:30 p.m. Sunday on Manning Trail North...

• Minneapolis Car Accident Kills Woman

  Shannon Weidemann | April 04, 2008 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  A 26-year-old woman from Minneapolis was killed in a car accident on Friday night. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the other car was also injured and taken to a local hospital...

• Chlorine Leak Injures Almost 40

  Jenny Albano | March 27, 2008 7:48 PM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  On Wednesday, March 26, a chlorine gas leak in a pool injured 36 students and one adult. Rocori High School is the same school where two boys were killed in a shooting over four years ago.No one was critically injured, but twelve students and the injured adult had to stay over night at St. Cloud Hospital for further treatment. The leak was found just before 2 p.m. and the building was...

• Spelt Bread Recalled Due to Wheat

  Shannon Weidemann | March 20, 2008 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  Food for Life has issued a product recall for spelt bread that was made with wheat products. The wheat is not declared on the packaging and could pose a health hazard to those allergic to wheat. The recall involves over 2,200 cases of spelt bread. The recalled frozen products were sold nationwide through health food distributors and natural food retailers in 24 oz. light blue packages. The...

• Doctors Remove Wrong Kidney in Minneapolis Hospital

  Staff Writer | March 18, 2008 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  Surgeons at a hospital in Minneapolis accidentally removed a healthy kidney from a patient undergoing surgery for kidney cancer. The hospital made full disclosure of the glaring medical error afterwards in what has become an all-too-common occurrence at hospitals in the United States nowadays: wrong-site surgery. The chief medical officer for Park Nicollet Health Services made the error known...

• Man Dies in Oregon Construction Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | March 07, 2008 8:10 AM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  A construction worker from Stayton was killed on Wednesday in a highway repaving project. The construction accident happened in Alsea on Highway 34. The victim was using an asphalt grinder. The grinder rolled over the man and down an embankment. It appears part of the highway collapsed causing the accident. The victim was pronounced deceased at the scene. He was employed by Hatch Company, a...

• Woman Thrown Into Traffic on I-69 in Shakopee

  Shannon Weidemann | February 28, 2008 6:55 PM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  Car accidents were avoided, but police are still searching for a man who threw a woman into oncoming traffic on Highway I-69 Monday night in an extreme case of road rage. Jennifer Boulden made a legal U-turn on Interstate 69 near Shakopee when she missed her exit. The truck driving fast behind her motioned for her to pull over. She did and the driver got out of his truck and started yelling...

• 35W Bridge Collapse Victims May Be Limited in Aid

  Shannon Weidemann | February 20, 2008 9:37 AM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  The 35W Bridge collapsed in Minneapolis last August and left 150 victims. 13 of those people died. Many families were left with large medical bills and the loss of income from the victims. State legislators have been busy working on a victims' compensation fund. The proposed plan my fall far short of what victims need though. The Senate bill would limit payments to $400,000 per victim,...

• Two Injured in Head-on Minneapolis Car Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | February 10, 2008 7:44 AM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  Two people were injured in a late night car accident in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening. Two cars were traveling on Interstate 394, with one driver going the wrong way in the eastbound lanes. They collided head-on and both drivers were injured. Minnesota State Patrol Lt. Mark Peterson said investigators smelled alcohol on the breath of the wrong way driver."Troopers when they were...

• Infant Critically Burned from Ignited 'Oxygen Hood'

  Jenny Albano | January 24, 2008 9:26 PM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  An infant was critically burned when oxygen ignited inside the 'oxygen hood' worn by the infant. The newborn was lying in an open-topped bassinet underneath a warmer when the accident happened. The incident occurred at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids on Tuesday, January 22.The baby was wearing an oxygen hood, a device that fits over the face to supply additional oxygen, when something caused the...