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Drunk daycare provider arrested after toddler is found wandering on busy highway

By Aaron Rupar Thu., Jun. 13 2013 at 2:17 PM
Categories: Crime, Scary
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A daycare in Sandstone, Minnesota, has been shut down after one of the children being watched there was found wandering nearby on a busy highway yesterday afternoon.

:::: UPDATE :::: Drunk daycare provider was "drinking because she was having a bad day," charges say

To add outrageousness to incompetence, police say the provider was drunk when officers arrived on the scene to try to figure out how the two-year-old ended up in such a dangerous spot.

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Police release sketch of man who allegedly attempted to abduct girl near Lake Calhoun [IMAGE]

By Aaron Rupar Fri., May 17 2013 at 12:27 PM
Categories: Scary
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The site of the May 5 attempted abduction.
Earlier this month, three men allegedly attempted to abduct a 13-year-old girl just blocks away from Lake Calhoun. The men fled the scene after the girl screamed, and no arrests have been made.

THE BACKSTORY: Three men tried to abduct 13-year-old girl while she rode her bike near Lake Calhoun, police say

Today, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension released a sketch of one of the suspects.

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Bloomington man injured after falling into 8-foot sinkhole [IMAGE]

By Aaron Rupar Mon., May 13 2013 at 7:13 AM
Categories: Scary
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One minute, he was walking his dogs; the next, the ground gave way and he found himself in this.
As if we all don't already have enough things to worry about already, here's another.

SEE ALSO: Small alligator found in Bloomington; fisherman says "there's a big one back there too" [PHOTO]

A 65-year-old Bloomington man was hospitalized after he fell in an 8- to 9-foot-deep sinkhole near 102nd Street West and Scarborough Road yesterday morning.

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Drunk, unhandcuffed man pulled gun from his pants while in Metro Transit police squad car [VIDEO]

By Aaron Rupar Tue., May 7 2013 at 2:17 PM
Categories: Crime, Police, Scary
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A drunken Rogers somehow found himself inside a squad car, unhandcuffed, with a loaded gun.
On the afternoon of December 4, Metro Transit police picked up 21-year-old Wesley Rogers in downtown Minneapolis.

FROM LAST MONTH: Police blast TJ Maxx for not reporting multiple mace-spraying shoplifter incidents

Police say Rogers was obviously drunk and had allegedly been harassing a woman, but they decided not to arrest him. Instead, a pair of officers patted him down and confiscated an open bottle of booze. But they showed Rogers some mercy and decided to give him a ride back to his north Minneapolis home, unhandcuffed, in the back of a squad car.

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Three men tried to abduct 13-year-old girl while she rode her bike near Lake Calhoun, police say

By Aaron Rupar Tue., May 7 2013 at 8:04 AM
Categories: Scary
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The site of Sunday's attempted abduction.
Yesterday, the Minneapolis Police Department distributed a crime alert about a reported abduction attempt that took place around 2:25 Sunday afternoon near the intersection of 36th Street West and Zenith Avenue South.

SEE ALSO: Missing Minneapolis girl was simply crashing at a different friend's house

A 13-year-old girl was riding her bike near that intersection, which is just a couple of blocks away from Lake Calhoun, when three men approached her.

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Edina native live-tweets Boston bombing shootout as it happens outside his window [PHOTOS]

By Aaron Rupar Fri., Apr. 19 2013 at 4:01 PM
Categories: Scary
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Kitzenberg had to flee his apartment on two separate occasions as law enforcement tried to apprehend the Boston bombing suspects.
Edina native Andrew Kitzenberg now lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, and last night, he ended up with a front-row seat as Boston-area law enforcement officers engaged in a shootout with the two Boston bombing suspects.

SEE ALSO: Star Tribune places pressure cooker ad below story about Boston bombs [IMAGE]

Though it must've been a terrifying situation, Kitzenberg, a 26-year-old graduate of Breck High School, live-tweeted the drama as it unfolded.

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Baby boy's dead body found in Regions Hospital's dirty linens [UPDATE]

By Aaron Rupar Wed., Apr. 17 2013 at 12:06 PM
Categories: Health Care, Scary
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Police and Regions officials are trying to figure out how a stillborn baby's body was sent to Red Wing along with the hospital's dirty linens.
-- Original post published 9 a.m. Wednesday morning; updates at bottom --

Workers at Red Wing's Crothall Laundry made a grisly discovery yesterday morning. As they prepared to wash the dirty linens from Regions Hospital in St. Paul, an infant boy's dead body came tumbling out.

SEE ALSO: Abbott Hospital gave newborn to wrong mom, who breastfed baby before mixup was noticed

It's unclear exactly how the baby's body get there, but according to KSTP, it was a baby stillborn on April 4.

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Bomb squad investigates suspicious package at Mall of America, finds no threat [UPDATE]

By Aaron Rupar Tue., Apr. 16 2013 at 10:11 AM
Categories: Mall of America, Scary
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The suspicious MOA package was found in a garbage can, just as the Boston Marathon bombs were.
-- Updates at bottom --

In the wake of yesterday's Boston attack, people throughout the country are understandably on high alert.

SEE ALSO: Boston Attack: Hennepin County judge finished race 20 minutes before explosion

That's apparent this morning at the Mall of America, where an entrance on the west side of the mall has been closed after a suspicious package was found in a garbage can.

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Cyclist claims Molotov cocktail was thrown at him from Midtown Greenway bridge [PHOTO] [UPDATE]

By Aaron Rupar Thu., Apr. 11 2013 at 12:48 PM
Categories: Bicycle, Scary
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Ditlefsen (left) says a Molotov cocktail thrown at him set the Midtown Greenway ablaze.
-- Original post from April 3; update at bottom --

Just after 1 p.m. this afternoon, Drew Ditlefsen was biking eastbound on the Midtown Greenway when he says he received a very scary surprise.

SEE ALSO: "Not enough evidence" to charge driver of car that hit and killed biker with homicide

As he passed under the 15th Avenue bridge, he heard a crash and glass breaking. Afraid more objects would be thrown at him, he kept moving, but he managed to look over his shoulder quickly and he could see the entire width of the Greenway in flames.

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Student's cell phone suddenly explodes, burning his leg and causing classroom evacuation

By Aaron Rupar Thu., Feb. 21 2013 at 2:29 PM
Categories: Scary , Technology
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A battery fire engulfed a Rochester student's pants.
Earlier today, a student at Kellogg Middle School in Rochester was injured when his cell phone suddenly combusted, burning his leg.

SEE ALSO: Massive Uptown fire engulfs building near Lake Street and Irving Avenue [PHOTOS] [VIDEO]

The classroom where the incident occurred was evacuated, and in an audio message delivered to parents, Kellogg Principal Dwight Jennings asked them to monitor their children for sulfur poisoning.

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