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Minnesota couple dies in dump truck collision

ROSEMOUNT (AP) — A South St. Paul couple has died after their car was rear-ended by a dump truck.

The Minnesota State Patrol says 47-year-old William Craig was driving the couple’s car when it was rear-ended by the dump truck on Highway 55 in Rosemount on Thursday. Both Craig and his 48-year-old wife, Colette Craig, were killed.

According to an initial accident report, the Craigs’ car and a pickup truck were stopped behind a semi-truck that was ready to turn left. The dump truck collided with the pickup, pushing it into the ditch, and then collided with the Craigs’ Subaru. The car ended up wedged between the dump truck and semi.

The other drivers were treated at Regions Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

Ex-Winona postmaster sentenced

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Winona postmaster must serve two years of probation and 80 hours of community service for destroying mail.

Fifty-eight-year-old Sherri Jo Genkinger of Galesville, Wisconsin, also must pay $5 in restitution to a former police officer who complained that a greeting card and lottery ticket he’d sent to his brother had gone missing.

The Star Tribune reports the lottery confirmed the ticket had been cashed. Surveillance video led to Genkinger’s arrest.

In May 2018, a retired police officer looked into complaints about undelivered mail from students at Winona State. He sent his brother a greeting card containing the $5 winning lottery ticket inside.

After Genkinger was relieved of her duties, investigators found 1,300 pieces of undelivered mail and a bag of “apparently shredded greeting cards” in her office.

Police seek motive in shooting

CLOQUET (AP) — Authorities are looking for a motive in a shooting that wounded a man attending a funeral on an American Indian reservation in northern Minnesota.

Police say the 45-year-old Minneapolis man was shot in the head during the funeral Friday on the Fond du Lac Band reservation. WDIO-TV reports the man was released from a hospital that night.

A 28-year-old man, also from Minneapolis, was arrested. Police say funeral-goers restrained the suspect before police took him into custody.

Police say the suspect and the victim apparently knew each other. A rifle was recovered.

The shooting happened in a Head Start building gymnasium. The shooting prompted a lockdown at tribal offices and a school.

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