A helicopter hovers over Stearns County Road 48 about a mile southwest of Marty, Minn., where a Minnesota National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed on Dec. 5, 2019. The helicopter took off from St. Cloud around 2 p.m. for what the Guard described as a "maintenance test flight" and called mayday about nine minutes after takeoff.
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Eleven-year-old Alberto Luna of Leech Lake, left, drills with his coach as 11-year-old Eh Do of White Bear Lake, right, warms up with coach Dave Lusby on May 4, 2019, at Lucy Laney Elementary in Minneapolis. The school held its first Junior Olympic boxing tournament after dean of behavior Morgan McDonald started the Lucy Laney Boxing Academy as an after school program.
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Canoeists paddle through a flooded playground at Harriet Island Regional Park in St. Paul on March 29, 2019, with the Clarence W. Wigington Pavilion in the background and the St. Paul Cathedral in the distance.
Andrew Krueger | MPR News
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