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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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