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Speech team claims second place
FAIRMONT – The Fairmont High School speech team came away with a second-place finish at the Mankato West speech tournament on Saturday.
St. Peter won the event, with Mankato West finishing third.
Individual varsity results follow:
Eric Head, first in creative expression
Eleanor Hamlet, first in discussion
Isabell Geiger and Tabitha Thatcher, fourth in duo.
Emily Kerekes, sixth in extemporaneous reading
Weston Loughmiller, fourth in extemporaneous speaking
Sydney Hainy, fourth in humorous
Emily Kerekes, third in informative speaking
Ameya Komaragiri, first in original oratory
Grace Higgins, fourth in original oratory
Tabitha Willner, fifth in poetry
Apoorva Komaragiri, second in prose
Kaycie Brookens, first in prose
Isabell Geiger, fourth in prose
Annika Wheeler, second in storytelling
Novice results:
Audrianna Lewison, fourth in drama
Paige Linse, sixth in humorous
Officer cleared in fatal shooting
SHAKOPEE (AP) — The Scott County Attorney’s Office has ruled a Shakopee police officer’s use of deadly force was justified when he fatally shot a man who pointed a gun at him.
Officer Thor Carlson and a rookie he was training responded to a fire alarm call at the home of James Hanchett last November. A state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigation found the 61-year-old Hanchett, who was intoxicated, came to the front door and pointed a gun directly at Carlson, who fired several shots. Hanchett died later at the hospital.
Carlson told BCA investigators he thought Hanchett was going to shoot him.
Reynolds to sign education bills
DES MOINES (AP) — Gov. Kim Reynolds plans to sign education funding bills sent to her last week by lawmakers providing a 2 percent increase in state per-pupil funding for the budget year beginning in July.
Reynolds has scheduled a bill signing event for this morning at the Iowa Capitol.
The measures would boost per-pupil support from the state general fund to nearly $3.3 billion.
Reynolds will sign a separate bill to provide schools $21.3 million, including funding for transportation in districts where the cost of busing students is higher.
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