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08Woman pulled from the pond (Stolle, 14 inches w/ pic, mugs) BYRON — Realizing that she had made a wrong turn, Rose Ronnenberg did what scores of drivers in her circumstances do every day: She decided to save a little time and make a U-turn.
But what started out as a routine maneuver turned into several minutes of terror Monday morning as the 78-year-old Byron resident realized that she had lost control of her car.
After doing a nearly complete 360-degree turn on a two-lane road, her car plunged down an embankment and into a runoff pond in an industrial park along U.S. 14 at 280th Avenue, on the Olmsted-Dodge county line between Kasson and Byron.

08 cinemas a1 story (Weber, 18 inches, w pic, info box) - Care for a little popcorn with that opera?
You won’t find popcorn at intermission in most opera houses around the world, but the Galaxy 14 Cine in Rochester is not most opera houses.
It is, however, on the cutting edge of a new trend: movie theaters that don’t just show movies. Last spring, the Galaxy presented digital big-screen versions of operas from the La Scala Opera in Milan, Italy. Audiences loved it.
“The opera series was huge for us in Rochester; it was outstanding,” said Kelly Hoskins, director of marketing for Wehrenberg Theaters, which owns the Galaxy.

08washington (Pieters, 15 inches) The Rochester City Council’s 4-3 vote approving a northwest Rochester apartment complex could fall to a mayoral veto.
Mayor Ardell Brede said on Monday night that he was “disturbed” by pieces of the Washington Village plan, approved last month. The council on Monday confirmed legal findings of fact supporting the earlier decision.
Brede has until early next week to decide whether he wants to overturn Monday’s vote, which in effect throws the overall project off track.

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MOVED/ 08prepare for fair (Agri news 16 inches w/ pic) LEROY -- MaryAnn Marx was surprised she took second in showmanship at the Southeast Minnesota Youth Dairy Show.
She was expecting to take first.
MaryAnn, 9, showed at the dairy show last month at the Winona County fairgrounds in St. Charles. It was her first time showing at the Southeast Minnesota Youth Dairy Show and it was the first time she earned a fancy ribbon. The big red-and-white ribbon now hangs in her bedroom.

08wind damages St. Charles farm (Hanson, 11 inches w/ pic) ST. CHARLES — Jim and Shirley Pelowski thought they’d seen much of what strong winds can do after a tornado touched down next to their farm two months ago. But on Monday, they saw some new kinds of damage.
Some of it almost creative.

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08Thurmes sentencing (Gossman, 9 inches ) HAYFIELD -- A Hayfield man who pleaded guilty in Dodge County District Court last month of felony criminal vehicular homicide or operation will serve a year’s probation in connection with a crash that seriously injured an 18-year-old woman last August.

08gang sentencing (Gregorson, 15 inches w/ mug) A tip from a concerned citizen led police to intervene in a possible gang fight involving guns during the Fourth of July festivities at Silver Lake Friday night.

08Olivares assault (Gossman, 5 inches) KASSON -- A Kasson man has been charged with third degree assault, domestic assault and a fifth degree controlled substance crime in Dodge County District Court.

08aufenthie (Gregorson, 5 inches w/ mug) Unconditional bail has been set at $20,000 for a Rochester man accused of assaulting a man on the Fourth of July who was dating his former girlfriend.

08gun charges (Gregorson, 12 inches w/ mug) A Rochester man who told authorities he was just a citizen concerned about a car driving through a crowd of people on the Fourth of July now faces criminal charges for pulling his gun to stop the driver.

08migrant head start (Valdez, 15 inches) An early start on the day is part of a jump start on life for more than 40 children involved in Migrant Head Start, which marks 10 years in Rochester this summer.

08kakaire sex case (Gregorson, 5 inches) NEEDS SEX CHECK -- A man who admitted sexually touching a juvenile girl has been put on probation for 25 years.

08whiskey (Pieters, 15 inches) Some northeast Rochester residents turned up the volume on a frequently noisy bar in their neighborhood.

08goose statues (Russell, 14 inches w/ graphic) UPDATE IN A.M. WITH CITY COUNCIL ACTION -- There were Peanuts in St. Paul, pigs in Austin and blue herons in Winona. Now  Rochester could get its own collection of colorfully painted sculptures scattered around town.
The sculptures of smiling geese, which would be unveiled at Rochesterfest next year, may be placed at 25 or more locations around the city including downtown, with maps available, according to Bari Amadio, executive director of the Rochester Arts Council.

08Federal drug plea ROCH (RUZEK, 11 inches) A 30-year-old man who arranged for the delivery of about 26.5 pounds of cocaine in February to an Austin hotel pleaded guilty Monday in federal court.

08political spending ROCH (Felker, 13 inches w/ mugs) WASHINGTON -- Freshman Rep. Tim Walz, D-Mankato, reported another strong fundraising quarter on Monday, while his endorsed GOP challenger, Brian Davis of Rochester, loaned his campaign $100,000 to nearly tie Walz in overall receipts.
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08retired lyle teacher AUST, (Colbenson, 12 inches, w pic) - LYLE — Lyle Public Schools music teacher Rachel Hudson retired this spring after almost half a century of teaching but vows to keep herself surrounded by the things she loved about her job.

08Flood design work AUST (Ruzek, 15 inches w/ file pic) TO COMPLETE IN A.M. -- City approves spending nearly $800,000 for firm to begin design work on rest of North Main flood-protection plan that will include 5,600 feet (or about 18 football field lengths) of flood barrier along the river’s west side and 1,900 feet on the east side from 4th ave dam to I-90

08ELECTION UPDATE AUST (Ruzek, 14 inches w/ mugs ) Two members of the Austin City Council don’t plan to run for re-election.

08underpass bid AUST (Ruzek, 15 inches w/ file pic) TO COMPLETE IN A.M. -- city approves bid for $1.6 million, about $400,000 less to do the major Oakland Avenue East underpass work

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08Federal drug plea AUST (RUZEK, 11 inches) A 30-year-old man who arranged for the delivery of about 26.5 pounds of cocaine in February to an Austin hotel pleaded guilty Monday in federal court.
Antolin Mendez-Soto, unknown address, entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court to a single count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis.

08Maschka honor AUST (Ruzek, 8 inches w/ mug) A rose laid on a table Monday where the late Dennis Maschka used to sit during Austin City Council meetings.

08freedom fest folo AUST (Ruzek, 8 inches w/ file pic) TO COMPLETE IN A.M. --  --Chamber exec says numbers same if not higher this year

08political spending AUST (Felker, 13 inches w/ mugs) WASHINGTON -- Freshman Rep. Tim Walz, D-Mankato, reported another strong fundraising quarter on Monday, while his endorsed GOP challenger, Brian Davis of Rochester, loaned his campaign $100,000 to nearly tie Walz in overall receipts.

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State Wire
AP CENTERPIECE: DRINKING DEATHS
WINONA, Minn. — An analysis of federal death statistics by The Associated Press found that 157 college-age people drank themselves to death from 1999 until 2005, the most current national data available. Those numbers reflect a rise from 18 in 1999 to 35 in 2005. Meanwhile, a separate analysis by AP of news articles about alcohol-poisoning deaths in the past decade shows young people literally drinking themselves into oblivion — with the dead averaging a blood-alcohol level of 0.40 percent, or five times the legal driving limit in most states. In nearly every case, friends saw the victim getting out of control and put him or her to bed to “sleep it off.” The AP examined alcohol-poisoning deaths after four college-age people died in Minnesota in late 2007 and early 2008 after nights of heavy drinking. By Amy Forliti.
AP Photos MP101-108 by Jim Mone. AP Graphic DRINKING DEATHS.
  DRINKING DEATHS-LEGAL
MINNEAPOLIS — Amanda Jax was 21, and it was time to celebrate. She started with one or two beers at her friends’ apartment, then went to a Mankato bar, where someone bought her a pitcher of Long Island Iced Tea. By the time Jax had finished most of it, at least one person noticed her slurring her words, but the party wasn’t over. By Amy Forliti.
AP Photos MP109-MP110.
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— DRINKING DEATHS-FINDINGS; DRINKING DEATHS-ABOUT ALCOHOL POISONING; DRINKING DEATHS-METHODOLOGY.
  — WINONA BRIDGE-REPAIRS — The Minnesota Department of Transportation says work should begin by Thursday on repairing about 15 gusset plates on the Highway 43 bridge over the Mississippi River at Winona.
— BURNING HOME-ARREST — A Winona homeowner faces charges after he allegedly ignored a firefighter’s orders and ran back into his burning house.