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Disasters

Authorities identify woman who died in U of M window fall

Police said the woman was trying to move from the window to a rooftop area when she fell. A screen had been removed from a window, which was not designed to be an exit.

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Verso paper mill demolition begins

Crews have started demolishing the former Verso Paper mill that was destroyed in an explosion and fire last year.

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Mom of Lilydale landslide survivor objects to new field trip permission slips

Mom of Lilydale landslide survivor objects to new field trip permission slips

Facing parent scrutiny and the possibility of litigation related to the field trip and the landslide, field trip permission slips from Peter Hobart Elementary School look much different that they did last year.
by Trisha Volpe

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Lilydale landslide victims' families critical of new report

Lilydale landslide victims' families critical of new report

Investigators say the City of St Paul could not have known about the potential danger to a class of fourth graders on a fossil-hunting field trip on May 22, of whom two died. Families of the victims say the city is trying to avoid responsibility.
by Rupa Shenoy

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Co-founder of Kowalski's Markets dies

Co-founder of Kowalski's Markets dies

A family member says Kowalski suffered a fatal head injury while on a fishing trip in Ontario.
by Martin Moylan

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Lilydale landslide: Report says St. Paul didn't know of danger

Lilydale landslide: Report says St. Paul didn't know of danger

While the deaths of the two children, Mohammed Fofana and Haysem Sani, were tragic, the city could not have predicted the slide, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman told reporters Thursday morning.
by Curtis Gilbert and Tim Nelson

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Lilydale landslide reports set for release

The city hired an engineering firm and the dean of the Hamline School of Law to look at the May 22 landslide, which killed to children and injured others.
by Tim Nelson

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Reports on Lilydale Park landslide are out

Two probes of the fatal landslide have resulted in reports being issued this morning.

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Railroad tracks at site of boy's accident lacked fence, despite law

Railroad tracks at site of boy's accident lacked fence, despite law

Minnesota law requires railroads to "build and maintain good and substantial fences on each side of all lines of its railroad." There was no fence guarding the tracks where 9-year-old Marshawn Farr-Robinson had his feet severed under a train.
by Trisha Volpe

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Containment of Yosemite fire increases overnight

A massive wildfire burning around Yosemite National Park in California is now 75 percent contained.

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