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Kansas highway crash
A "keep out" sign is posted at the end of the driveway to the Kerber family property Monday, April 2, 2012 in Jordan, Minn. Five members of the family were killed Sunday morning when their vehicle crashed on a Kansas highway. The dead are identified as Tom Kerber, 25, and Melissa Kerber, 24, of New Prague; Joy Kerber, 14, James Kerber, 12 and Jessica Kerber, 10, of Jordan. The family was on vacation to a motocross race.
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This week, we visited an oasis in a western Minnesota food desert, the northern woods and the Jordan home of a family involved in a devastating crash in Kansas.

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