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Pickup hits Rogers High students at bus stop; driver arrested

Pickup hits Rogers High students at bus stop; driver arrested

Three 15-year-old students were hit in Otsego while the school bus was stopped with its stop arm out. All three are at Hennepin County Medical Center; two are listed in critical condition.
by MPR News Staff

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Rescuers search for 30 after avalanche hits Italian hotel

Two people escaped the devastation at the Hotel Rigopiano, in the mountains of the Gran Sasso range, and called for help, but it took hours for responders to arrive to the remote zone.
by The Associated Press

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Collapse of burning Tehran high-rise kills 30 firefighters

Some 75 people were injured, state media reported. The disaster struck the Plasco building, an iconic structure in central Tehran just north of the capital's sprawling bazaar.
by The Associated Press

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Search for missing Flight MH370 suspended after almost 3 years

Search for missing Flight MH370 suspended after almost 3 years

In March 2014, the flight vanished from radar with 239 people on board. Search crews have examined more than 45,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean, to no avail.

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1 dead, 4 others injured by apparent carbon monoxide

The incident, on a rural southern Minnesota lake, is at least the third carbon monoxide related fatality involving ice anglers in Minnesota in the past three years.
by Dan Kraker

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6 people injured in explosion at Minnesota truck plant

6 people injured in explosion at Minnesota truck plant

The explosion happened Wednesday morning at McNeilus, a truck manufacturer and major employer in Dodge Center about 70 miles southeast of Minneapolis.
by Catharine Richert

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Blaine's water deemed safe again, boil order lifted

A test released on Monday afternoon found that the city's water is free of contaminants.
by Jon Collins

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Trespassing woman hit by falling sheet of ice at Minnehaha Falls

Trespassing woman hit by falling sheet of ice at Minnehaha Falls

Minneapolis park police are stepping up patrols around Minnehaha Falls after a woman was injured while trespassing behind the falls over the weekend.
by Jon Collins

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Sister: Iowa man killed at Florida airport; wife wounded

Michael Oehme, 57, from Council Bluffs owned his own land survey business. His wife, Kari Oehme was shot in the shoulder but is expected to recover.
by Associated Press

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