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Fravel trial /5: About those facial scratches
MANKATO, Minn. – The lead attorney defending Adam Fravel in the 2023 murder of Maddi Kingsbury called Winona police investigator Anita Sobotta back to the stand apparently to discredit her observation of scratches on Favel’s face and neck. In cross-examining Sobotta, Zachary Bauer asked:
> Why didn’t you photograph the scratches while initially questioning Fravel?
> Why didn’t you follow up on a fellow officer’s report on vomit outside the duplex where Fravel and Kingsbury lived?
Sobotta’s response: The focus in the early investigation was to locate Kingsbury. Sobotto noted that an agent from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension eventually would photograph the scratches, albeit by then they would be further along healing.
.Earlier: Fravel trial /4: Early search warrants
Fravel trial /4: Early search warrants
MANKATO, Minn, – A Winona police investigator, Andy Mohan, took the stand in the Adam Fravel murder trial and reported he found two laptops, one of them in a burnpit, at the home of Fravel’s parents near Mabel in southern Fillmore County. Both laptops were confiscated as evidence and taken to Winona, Mohan told the jury. Other investigators, he said, would examine the laptops for clues. Mohan said he had gone to the Fravel place near Mabel the day after Fravel’s live-in companion Maddi Kingsbury went missing. The following day, Mohan said, he went back to search the property. Adam Fravel was not there, but Fravel’s parents gave permission to search the property. On the third day, Mohan said, he searched a Winona storage unit that Fravel and Kingsbury rented. Nothing was collected, he said. A few days later in another search of the Fravel house near Mabel, Mohan said, he collected a white jacket for evidence. Mohan was a prosecution witness against Frave,, but it was unclear how his testimony might paint a broader picture of crime.
Earlier: Fravel trial/3: The early forensics
When craving Mountain Dew overrides good judgment
WINONA, Minn. – A Walmart employee with a penchant for Mountain Dew has been fired for filching snacks at the giant East End retailer. Also, at the store’s urging, Jerry David Reams, age 21, of Winona, was charged with theft. Walmart security agents reported these thefts:
> April 17: Mountain Dew and a blueberry muffin, $6
> April 21: Mountain Dew, a croissant and a chocolate chip muffin, $11
> April 28: Pepsi, cookies, isoproponal alcohol, and a blood-alcohol detector, $109.
> May 1: 5: Cookies, milk and Lego toys $44.
Fravel trial /3: A visual journey of the duplex
MANKATO, Minn. – A forensic scientist with the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension took jurors on a bideo tour of the Winna duplex where Adam Favel and Maddi Kingsbury lived. The tour was on the first full day of Fravel’s trial for murder. The tour might preclude a possible jury request for a 280-mile roundtrip from Mankato, where the trial is being held, for Winona for insights into the case. The forensic scientist, McKenzie Anderson, began at the driveway and circled to the backyard and sides of the du0oex. The video showed a shed in the backyard.
Not a “Better Homes & Garden” model
Inside the house the jurors were shown the living room, kitchen, bedrooms, closets ana basement. The. images showed a general messiness, which supported earlier testimony by police investigator Anita Sobotta, who said it difficult to decipher what was normal in the lifestyle of the household and what wasn’t. Images showed part of a couch and a cell phone on a floor next to a charger. In the older child’s bedroom there was no bed, only an air mattress. The mattress was missing a sheet. The master bedroom had separate beds l as well as the younger child’s bed next to a closet. Anderson pointed out how this bedroom had a mark above the window where s painting missing. A similar mark was alsoe above the window in the kid’s bedroom. She didn’t offer a theory on why the walls were mot repaired although they looked to fit a larger unkempt feel. A later image showed Anderson herself holding a coat. In one pocket, she said, there was a cell phone. A backpack im the house held a laptop, in addition to a pink wallet Kingsbury‘s driver’s license inside, she said..
Forensics: No blood at duplex
Anderson said that no signs of blood were found at the house. Some stains were tested but none came back positive for blood, she said.
Fravel trial /2: Early police questioning
Jury box. Jurors are at 90 degrees from the witness stand, the nearest juror only a bit more than an arm’s length away. The judge’s bench is elevated to left in this image. Facing the judge are prosecution and defense tables.
Cops: Fravel first cooperative, then clams up
MANKATO, Minn – A police investigator testified that Adam Fravel turned uncooperative on the third day of the investigation into the disappearance of his on-again, off-again companion Maddi Kingsbury. Fravel is now on trial for Kingsbury’s death. Testifying at the trial as a prosecution witness, investigator Anita Sobotta said recounted interviewing Favel about the whereabouts of Kingsbury. Fravel, she said, told herbthat he had last seen Kingsbury the morning of March 31. Their relationship, he acknowledged, had become rocky.
The Mabel interviews
The night that Kingsbury disappeared, Fravel was at his parents’ rural home near Mabel, 40 miles south of Winona. With Maddi missing, he explained that he had taken their two children to his parents’ place. On body cam video played to the jury, Fravel was in a recliner and seemed to take Kingsbury’s disappearance casually. Fravel said that he and Kingsbury had been “in an on and off relationship for seven years. ” He said that they had started couple therapy. He then explained that two to three weeks earlier that he and Kingsbury “just weren’t feeling it anymore” and decided to separate. He wasn’t surprised that she had left, he said. Fravel gave officers his phone and password.
Cell phone
Sobotta said that Fravel gave her a cell phone. The phone, she said, showed Fravel texted Kingsbury half a dozen times about her whereabouts, what her plan was, and if she would be taking their daughter to visit family over the weekend. There were no responses to any of the messages. The last message Fravel received from Maddi had been about cash transfer of $20 in the morning. Sobotta said that she and her partner, Deputy Police Chief Jay Rasmussen, were confused by the texts and the times they ostensibly were sent. Fravel, she said, had trouble explaining why the texts and times were aligned the way they were. Sobotta said she and Rasmussen told Fravel that they were having a hard time buying his story. About an hour into the interview, Fravel was directly asked numerous times:
> “Do you know where Maddi is?”
> “Do you have anything to do with her disappearance?”
Fravel replied: “No.” The interview ended when Fravel said: “I’ve been working with you guys, but now I am putting up a wall.” He invoked his right to an attorney.
Face, neck scratches
Sobotta testified that Fravel appeared to have scratches on the left side of his face on his nose, above an eye, on his neck, and two more below his nose. Fravel claimed the scratches were from his home gym equipment or maybe from his daughter or a cat or a dog. Fravel told investigators, “Maddi and I do not have any history of violence,and we have never laid hands on each other.”
A deteriorating relationship
As the interview progressed, Sobotta said, Fravel acknowledged that Maddi was in a relationship with an old college friend, Spencer Sullivan. The officers told Fravel that an informant had reported that Fravel ordered Maddi to stop talking to Sullivan or she would “end up like Gabby Petito.” Petito was a woman in a widely reported murder case in Wyoming. Sobotta said tyat Fravel acknowledged he did say as much but that it was a joke. “I was infatuated with the case. It was so stupid, I was just trying to make a joke.” He denied the informant’s report that he choked Kingsbury. He said he hugged her from behind, Sobotta testified. On their household finances Fravel reported that Maddi was the primary breadwinner but that he helped with bills.
Winona shooting victim hangs on to life
WINONA, Minn. – The man shot in a Thursday morning Winona incident remained in critical condition at a LaCrosse hospital, police said in their regular morning news media briefing. The victim was Anass Gttoa, 35, of Winona. Police released these details:
> The shooting was in a third-floor apartment on Howard Street off Huff Street.
> Gttoa and Cole Robert Cameron, 27, were alone in the apartment.
> Alcohol may have been a factor but not illegal drugs.
> Neighbors were aware of a loud argument and commotion through thin walls and a hallway door.
> Evidence includes bell-ring and other video.
> A black handgun was found in the premises.
Cameron was arrested at the apartment and booked for first-degree assault with consequential great bodily harm. A later charge was added: Intentional discharge of a dangerous weapon.
Death claims ex-Cogressman Nolan
MISWA, Minn. – Former Congressman Rick Nolan, who represented northern Minnesota’s MN-8 for three terms and earlier from the old MN-6, died at age 80. Nolan had heart issues. Nolan started his career as a social studies teacher in Royalton, Minnesota. He served on the staff of Sensy9rn Walter Mondale. He was elected to the Minnesota House in the 1960s and then to Congress. In 2018 he ran for the Democratic nomination as lieutenant governor on a ticket with Lori Swanson. They lost to Tim Walz and Peggy Flanagan. State Democratic Chair Ken Martin eulogized Nolan as “an ambassador for the DFL creed that ‘we all do better when we all do better.’”
Nolan. 1943-2024.
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Fravel trial /1: First police officer at duplex
MANKATO, Minn. – The jury in the Adam Fravel murder trial heard its first testimony — a recording on a police officer’s body camera while making a routine welfare check. There had been a that a call asking police to check up on Maddi Kingsbury, who had been missing most of the day. Fravel was at the couple’s Winona duplex when Officer Nathan Sense arrived. On the officer’s body-cam, Fravel can be heard answering general questions. Toward the end of the exchange, Fravel chuckled several times and said: “I don’t know if I should be worried or what.” This was March 31. As it turned out, nobody had seen Kingsbury alive since the morning. In his testimony, Sense said he had seen vomit on the back step of the duplex. Favel’s defense attorney cross-examined Sense whether he tested the vomit for DNA. He had not.
Witnesses to cops: Argument preceded shooting
WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man, Cole Robert Cameron, age 27, was charged with serious-level assault in the shooting of another man overnight in an apartment near Winona State University. Cameron was arrested at the apartment, said Deputy Police Chief Jay Rasmussen. A black handgun was found at the apartment, Rasmussen said. Several witnesses reported the two men had been arguing, he said.
Fravel defense previews murder trial strategy
MANKATO, Minn. – The chief attorney for Adam Fravel laid out sweeping reasons why Fravel shouldn’t be convicted of murder. For one, Zach Bauer told the jury, the police and prosecutors wrongly flagged Fravel as guilty from the start. The Winona investigators had worn blinders in a myopic focus on Favel beginning with the first search warrant inside the duplex where Fravel and Maddi Kingsbury lived. Even though the search warrant yielded no signs of a struggle or anything tying him to Kingsbury’s disappearance, The investigators went to extra lengths to paint Fravel as the prime suspect, Bauer said. The cops tracked, him followed and him, andput him under surveillance for two months. It was “tunnel vision,” he said. All they looked for was evidence that fit a preconceived theory that Fravel did it. Bauer wound up: “The only verdict you can come to is not guilty.”
Bauer’s pre-emptive strikes
Although opening arguments aren’t normally used to hash out evidence, Bauer did rebut a prosecution claim that he once told Kingsbury she might “end up like Gabby Petito” – a reference to a Wyoming case in which a young bride-to-be disappeared before being found murdered. The Petito case had been followed closely by Fravel and Kingsbury in the news. Bauer accused the prosecution of taking the quote out of context. It was a “horrible joke” and that Fravel hugged Kingsbury right after, he said. The Fravel team also disputed a prosecution suggestion that video existed of Fravel driving Kingsbury’s minivan 40 miles to Mabel to dispose of her body. No such evidence exists, they said.
Opening arguments
Bauer’s presentation, about 45 minutes, followed the prosecution’s opening arguments to the jury. These were previews designed to give jurors a framework for assessing evidence as the trial progresses over the coming three to four weeks. No evidence or testimony was presented in the opening arguments, which can be likened to the preface of a lengthy book. The Blue Earth County courtroom was packed with Maddi Kingsbury’s family and friends and also journalists. At least two sketch artstts ere creating a visual record for news media. No cameras are being allowed by Judge Nancy Buytendorp. Through it all, Fravel sat attentive straight-faced in a gray suit and glasses.
The defense triad
Bauer said prosecution’s case will fall apart when these factors are considered:
> Tunnel vision.
> Secrets of truth.
> Revisionist history.
Bauer used all three terms repeatedly. By “secrets of truth,” Bauer told the jury that Fravel and Kingsbury’s relationship was full of love since they had met in college and eventually had their two children. The relationship, he said, had “ups and downs and there was fighting like everyone else.” Kingsbury’s disappearance, he said, “was quite frankly a regular occurrence in their relationship.” By “revisionist history,” he said he meant that some testimony in preliminary hearings about abusem ay have been generated by the power of suggestion that compounded itself tangentially in the weeks she was missing. About bruises that family and friends later remembered, Bauer said that Kingsbury herself had explained contemporaneously that “things got out of hand in the bedroom.”
Bauer.
Dokken.
Defense team
The Fravel defense team is led by Zachary Bauer and Grace Dokken of the Rochester firm Meshbesher & Spence. Bauer has practiced in Rochester since 2003. His focus is criminal law and has represented 1,500 clients in the Rochester area. His law degree is from the Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Dokken is a 2023 Mitchell Hamline law school grad whose experience includes immigration law, criminal law and civil law.
Gusts, dry air make state a tinder box
Fire danger. Pink for explosive conditions.
Burning restrictions. Yellow-red stripes for banned open burning
Red-flag warning. Eighty-five Minnesota counties — almost the whole state – were put on alert for wildfires. The warning means that fires can spread quickly and easily progress out of control. Gusty winds and low relative humidity are major factors. Conditions will be worst in northern counties through 6 p.m. and then roll south through 7 p.m. Friday. Image: State Natural Resources Department
Judge to Kasson pedophile: Serve your time
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Supreme decided against reviewing the conviction of a Mormon youth leader for molesting boys in Kasson. Michael Adam Davis, now 40, was convicted by a Dodge County in 2022. Chief Justice Natalie E. Hudson wrote the denial. Davis’ release date from prison is 2042. Records show a pattern of abusing minors going back to when Adams lived in Utah. His Dodge County conviction gave rise to questions about church tolerance of aberant behavior and cover-ups.
Winona gunshot victim airlifted to LaCrosse
WINONA, Minn. – A 35-year-o;d Winona man with a serious gunshot wound in his chest was airlifted from the Winona hospital’s rooftop helipad for Level 1trauma care at Gundersen hospital in LaCrosse. His condition remained categorized as life-threatening. The shooting was about 4:20 a.m. in a campus-area apartment near Winona State University.
Death claims Sparta woman in domestic case
SPARTA, Wis. – A Sparta woman died at a LaCrosse hospital eight days after serious injuries from an incident that police say was a domestic beating. The victim was 35-year-old Ticarra Manning. Doctors attributed death to intracerebral hemorrhaging. The brain swelling, they said, was inoperable. She had two sons, ages 13 and 8. Her death prompted he Monroe County district attorney in Sparta to upgrade charges against Andrew Nauman, who had been arrested October 8 at the scene. The revised charges: First-degree intentional homicide, felony murder, aggravated battery, and felony bail jumping. Nauman, age 39, has been in the Monroe County jail since the arrest, already on $1 million bail regading a previous case.
Fravel prosecutor launches case with emotion
MANKATO, Minn. – The chief prosecutor against Adam Fravel told jurors that they won’t hear from his strongest witness – the murder victim Maddi Kingsbury herself. In a 45-minute opening statement, Phillip Prokopowicz, speaking in calm and stoic tones, said:
“Madeline Kingsbury will not testify. She’s not here. But through the testimony of her friends, family, forensic scientists and investigators you will hear the story of Kingsbury’s life. You’ll hear her happiness, her sadness and her tragic death.”
Fravel, in gray suit and glasses, sat in silence as Prokopowicz accused him of abusing and killing the mother of their two children. Prokopowicz made these points about what the jury will hear over the next three to four weeks of the trial:
> A history of domestic violence to be told by friends and family.
> Kingsbury carried bruises on her neck and wore turtlenecks so they wouldn’t show.
> The sheet in which Kingsbury’s body was found 10 weeks after she disappeared matched a missing sheet from the couple’s shared duplex.
> Duct tape used to seal the body inside the sheet was like a roll found inside the duplex.
> Kingsbury died of asphyxiation, smothered in a bath towel in a slip knot around her and thattye towel matched a bath towel at the duplex.
> A timeline reconstructed from phone data and surveillance cameras tracked Fravel from Winona to 40 miles south near Mabel, where the body was found hidden a culvert.
Entrance to trial building. The courtroom is upstairs in the Blue Earth County Justice Center.
Prokopowicz
Prosecutor profile
The former chief deputy attorney for Dakota County, Phillip Prokopowicz, was brought out of retirement as a consultant in 2023 to help investigate the disappearance of Maddi Kingsbury – even before her body was found. He had a reputation for cases that are “potentially complex,” said Winona County prosecutor Karin Sonneman. In legal circles Pokopowicz was known as “arguably one of the best in the business” for his 18 years in Dakota Couty. He stayed on as a consultant on the case after Fravel was arrested and now heads the prosecution team at trial. At age 67, he lives in the southern St. Paul suburb of Inver Grove Heights.
Seven years prison for carrying cocaine-fetanyl
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Rochester man can blame a bad U-turn or drugs — or both — for a seven-year prison sentence. Gatwech Biel Wiel, 33, was ordered to seven years and four months behind bars. Wiel had been arrested in April after a police officer witnessed an illegal U-turn. After pulling over, Wiel failed several field sobriety tests. More serious: Officers found two plastic baggies with 35.9 grams of a cocaine-fentanyl mixture. Wiel was charged with drug possession and drunken driving.
Harris to LaCrosse collegians: “Vote. It’s your future”
UW-L Recreational Eagle Center. The crowd exceeded 3,000, mostly college students. Harris noted that many students on campus will cast their first votes in a presidential election this year.
Harris message: With Trump you’ll lose freedoms
LACROSSE, Wis. – Presidential aspirant Kamala Harris pitched her candidacy to young voters in a packed arena at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. ”It’s about you guys,” she told the cheering crowd. “We know that America is ready for a new way forward. We are ready for a new and optimistic generation of leadership.” Harris urged the young people gathered in the room to be positive and engaged in their future. “We are not going back because we know that this election is about two very different visions — one that is focused on the past, and one that is focused on the future.”
Her Wisconsin strategey
The LaCrosse rally was one of Harris’ three Wisconsin stops for the day. She started in Milwaukee and after LaCrosse flew back across the state to Green Bay. The state is critical for the Harris-Walz ticket in the nip-and-tuck battle with Donald Trump for Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes. At LaCrosse she was interrupted time and again by thunderous cheers. She paused too for boos a from the crowd gainst Tump whenever she lit into his record as president four years ago and in his current campaign.
Her Trump critique
“It is clear that Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged and will stop at nothing to claim unchecked power for himself,” said Harris. “He will send military after American citizens. He wants to prevent women from making decisions about their own bodies. He wants to threaten fundamental freedoms and rights, like the freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from gun violence, to breathe clean air, to drink clean water and the freedom to love who you love and love openly.”
Earlier: New polls agree: Wisconsin in play
Cuban. Billionaire investor Mark Cuban of “Shark Tank” television fame, is traversing Wisconsin with Harris as a warm-up speaker. At UW-L he warned that Trump’s proposed tariffs will, if elected, make him “the grinch who stole Christmas.” Holiday presents will zoom as much as 60%, he said, and so too will the bulk of imported goods. Consumers will be hurt and also Main Street shopkeepers who will be decimated, Cuban said. He noted that small business operators comprise 99.5% of U.S. companies.
Cops minimalist about overnight Winona shooting
WINONA, Minn. – Police kept a tight lid on their investigation into an early morning shooting tha left a man gravely wounded. Deputy Police Chief Jay Rasmussen issued a news release at 7:48 a.m. — 3-1/2 hours after the sbooting — that assured there was no threat to tye community. His details were sparse:
> Police were called at 4:22 a.m.
> The shooting was at an apartment building in the 300. block of West Howard Street.
> The victim was hospitalized in critical condition.
> A second man was in custody for questioning.
> Witnesses were being interviewed.
Other police sources used the term “ongoing investigation” in declining to discuss the case. Not even the age of the victim was released. Nor were details about wounds.
Campus proximity
The apartment was across Huff Street from Winona State University. Many students rent rooms in privately owned dorms on West Howard Street. The campus security chief , Chris Cichosz, a former Winona police officer, confirmed that he was notified about the shooting. He issued a campus-wide notice. “As far as we know, no Winona State students were involved in the incident,” said Cichosz.
Assault charge
Police booked a 27-year-old man into jail for “first-degree assault causing great bodily harm” at 5:50 a.m., 1-1/2 hours after the shooting. Whether this arrest of Cole Robert Cameron, 27, was related to the shooting investigation was not confirmed.
Cameron, Booked within an hour..
Crackdown for passing buses loading kids
WINONA, Minn. – The school bus company First Student, which holds the contract for Winona public schools, has outfitted all full-size buses with cameras to catch motorists who ignore red stop arms. This week five violations were recorded. In a sixth case a police officer observed a violation and wrote up the driver on the spot. In the other cases, tickets were mailed to registered owners of the vehicles.
Penalties can be stiff
If there aren’t students on the street entering or exiting the bus, it is a misdemeanor. If there are students on the street, it’s a gross misdemeanor. A gross misdemeanor can be punished by a year in jail and a $3,000 fine.
Stop means stop. Yes, that’s a camera you’re facing
Bullet critically wounds man near Winona State
WINONA, Minn. – A man was shot and critically wounded at anapartment overnight. The man was taken to the Winona hospital. Police said a second man was taken into custody for questioning. The shooting was about 4:20 a.m. in the 300 block of West Howard Street.
Latest Minnesota polls: Harris-Walz in lead
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota seems poised to give its electoral votes to Democrat Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz by a comfortable majority in the November 5 election. The five most closely watched public polls gave the Harris-Walz ticket comfortable margins over the last month. The margins raged from six to eight points – beyond the usual margin of error statistical standard. To be sure, polls are snapshots and not a predictive tool –and there remain possibilities for what’s called “October surprises” that could render trajectories topsy-turvy.
> October 12-14: Harris 51%, Trump 43%. Sample; 544 likely voters. By Redfield & Wilton Strategies. For the newspaper London Telegraph.
> September 10 to October 9: Harris 53%, Trump 47%. 400 likely voters. By ActiVote.
> September 27 to October 3: Harris 51%,Trump 43%. 551 likely voters. By Redfield & Wilton. For the London Telegraph.
> September 23 to 26: Harris 50%, Trump 44%. 646 likely voters. By Survey USA. For television stations KSTP, WDIV, KAAL.
> September 16 to19: Harris: 50%, Trump 44%. 703 likely voters. By Redfield & Wilton. For the London Telegraph.
There are other polls commissioned by political parties and special interests for internal decisions on where to channel campaign spending. As private polls, the findings are not released.
Earlier: Poll: Harris widens Minnesota lead over Trump
New polls agree: Wisconsin in play
MADISON, Wis. – October polls show Wisconsin a toss-up between he Harris and Trump tickets for the nation’s presidency. All were within two percentage ooints – so close that statistically nobody knows who was leading.
> October 12 to 14: Harris 48%, Trump 47%. 641 likely voters. Conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies. For the newspaper London Telegraph.
> October 12 to 14: Trump 50%, Harris 49%. 803 registered voters. By Patriot Polling.
> October 8 to 9: 800 likely voters. Harris 48%, Trump 48%. By InsiderAdvantage.
> October 6 to 9: Trump 49%, Harris 48%. 800 likely voters. By Fabrizio, Lee/McLaughlin. For candidate Trump.
> October 5 to 8: Trump 50%, Harris 49%. 1,000 registered voters. By Emerson College. For Nexstar Media.
> September 28 to October 8: Harris 46%, Trump 45%. 600 registered voters. By Fabrizio, Lee/McLaughlin. For Wall Street Journal.
> October 5 to 7: Harris 50%, Trump 48%. 450 likely voters. By Research Company.
> October 3 to 7: Trump 49%, Harris 47%. By Quinnipiac University. 1,073 likely voters.
> October 2 to 6: Trump 49%, Harris 47%. 700 likely voters. By Arc Insights. For Fields of Freedom.
Polling variables
The precision of a poll deends on variables, mostly driven by the budgets of sponsors. The larger the sample pool, the more a poll costs. Ranked here by the least expensive first.
> Registered voters.
> Likely voters.
> Subgroups like a regional, county, municipality.
> Subgroups by gender, income, education, religion, media habits.
News summary at week’s end: October 16, 2024
COMMERCE: Winona County estate on market for $11 million
JOURNALISM: Star Tribune relaunches as state news source
COLLEGES: Cops on WSU Homecoming: Tranquility welcome
COLLEGES: A frat’s mix of beer, hubbub and frisbee
WILDLIFE: Walz weekend: Tailgating in Mankato, Sleepy Eye
CRIME: Fravel jury trimmed: 12 jurors, three alternates
CRIME: Stolen Army Corps machine found; arrest made
CRIME: Cops: Rider grabbed steering wheel, caused crash
CRIME: Barrage of charges follow Far Wast End attack
SEASONS: The deep autumn colors descend downward
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