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A once quiet road in Stearns County has quickly become the road most traveled after news broke Jacob Wetterling's body was found.

Danny Heinrich admitted to kidnapping, sexually assaulting and murdering Jacob Wettering. Patty Wetterling spoke at a news conference: "our hearts are hurting" and "for us Jacob was alive until we found him."

A federal magistrate judge says the man authorities have called a "person of interest" in the unsolved kidnapping of Jacob Wetterling should not get a change of venue in his child pornography case.

The victim of a 1989 sexual assault in Cold Spring is suing the man he says attacked him as a boy and who has been named as a person of interest in the disappearance of Jacob Wetterling.

Attorneys for a man authorities have called a person of interest in the 1989 kidnapping of Jacob Wetterling are trying to suppress evidence that led to his being charged with possession of child pornography.

A man who authorities have called a person of interest in the 1989 abduction of a St. Joseph boy wants his trial on unrelated federal child pornography charges moved.

A man who authorities say is a person of interest in the 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling has pleaded not guilty to several federal child pornography charges. Fifty-two-year-old Danny Heinrich appeared in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Monday.

Today we unveil our top local news story for 2015...coming in at #1 is the story of an Annandale man charged with child pornography, who is also a person of interest in the abduction of Jacob Wetterling.

Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall joined me on WJON and talked about Jacob Wetterling person of interest Danny Heinrich. She talked about the Paynesville cluster of child sexual assaults in the 1980s,

A man called a person of interest in the 1989 abduction of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling has been ordered held on unrelated child pornography charges. Fifty-two-year-old Daniel James Heinrich was charged last week with possessing and receiving child pornography after authorities searched his Annandale home in July for evidence in the disappearance of Jacob Wetterling.