Two killed in Interstate 790 multi-vehicle accident

At 6:45 a.m. this morning along Interstate 790, two tractor trailers collided and started a chain reaction accident. Along with those already involved in the accident two more tractor trailers and fourteen cars were damaged in the crash.
All those involved in the accident two were killed and four people had life threatening injuries. Two of those people were taken by ambulances and the others were taken by Life Flight to Statesville about 50 miles away.
As of right now the city’s Police Department is not sure how the accident occurred and they will let the public know as soon as they are done investigating. So far they believe that the two tractor trailers collided.
So far there are no files against anyone involved in this accident.
Fire chief Tony Sullivan stated “the crash scene looked like a war zone when he arrived.” There were bodies lying all along the road and people covered with blood. One of the toughest for the police and fire department was when the workers had to run from car to car to help those that were hurt. Another bad thing was the emergency workers had a hard time deciding who was driving and who the passengers were and which vehicles belonged to whom. Chief Sullivan also stated “this is the worst accident he has seen in the 18 years.” He has been with the fire department for that long.
The accident happened in the northbound lanes which ended up closing both lanes of the interstate. At time of this publication the interstate was still closed. This caused a major mess for rush hour and all traffic had to be detoured to Interstate 690 on the other side of town which in return backed up traffic on that interstate for three hours.

Clearwater Fire Fighter hit by vehicle

This morning around 7 a.m. the Clearwater Fire Department responded to car fire on Interstate 94 near Clearwater. It went from a putting vehicle fires out to helping one of their men survive. Cory Broich was hit by a vehicle traveling east on Interstate 94. He was unhooking the water line from the fire truck when the incident occurred. Cory was pinned between the car and the fire truck. He was air lifted to St. Cloud Hospital with two broken legs and no head injuries.

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Do's and Don'ts

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Pawlenty seizes on breath analyer to combat drunk driving

A proposal to make tougher DWI laws is now heading to house for approval. Gov. Pawlenty wants to see tougher DWI laws in involve a breath analyer system in vehicles that would be contected to ignition system. Drunk drivers that have been convicted for a second or third time would have to this system install that there expense if they would like to be able to drive and not lose their license like before. This system would be a good way to widen the Drunk Driving laws and hopefully cut back on drunk driving repets and deaths in the state.

Viking Prayer

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Introduction to Kristin Stavrum

My name is Kristin Stavrum and as you can tell so far my favorite color is pink!! Since I got that out of the way let me tell you alittle about myself.

I was born and raised in St. Cloud. I moved over to this area nine years ago when I met my boyfriend Tom. When people ask how we met I always get a weird reaction. We met in a yahoo chat room when I answered his ad, "Any single females." We have been together ever since.

I currently work at the information desk at the Cambridge Campus as a student worker and in the summer I help Tom with his bicycle job.

We have two black labs names Dale and Jeff. They are my children! We also have some cats named Scruffy, Anakin, Callie, and Gemmi.

I'm going to school for my AAS in Office Technology and plan to come back for the Human Resource program we are getting.