It was a busy week in the news room covering many stories, including the discovery of Mandy Matula, an Albany apartment catching on fire, a Princeton plane crash, Henry Maybury's arrest and charge of kidnapping and assault and… Ghost Hunting.
The Minnesota stepfather of one of the seven Americans killed in a cargo plane crash in Afghanistan says his son knew the risks of his job and was happy to volunteer. Jeremy Lipka, formerly of Pine Island, was one of the two pilots and five other cargo plane workers killed Monday when their National Air Cargo plane crashed near an Air Force base in Afghanistan.
The pilot of a small plane has died in a crash in western Minnesota. The Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office says it got a call about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday that a plane had gone down north of Parkers Prairie.
Authorities are investigating the crash of an ulltralight plane near Bemidji that killed one man and left another hospitalized. The plane crashed around 7:15 p.m. Monday at a grass landing strip west of Bemidji.