Friends and family look for answers in the death of a 17-year-old from Walker, Google offers some concessions in Hermantown, and New Richland deals with flooding.
Transcript
WITH HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE STATE, I’M XAN HOLSTON.
COMING UP... PUBLIC PRESSURE FORCES CHANGES TO GOOGLE’S PROPOSED DATA CENTER IN HERMANTOWN...
[EMMA RICHTMAN / HERMANTOWN RESIDENT: WHERE IS THE CARE FOR THE PEOPLE OF HERMANTOWN? WHY DID WE HAVE TO ASK FOR THIS?]
BUT FIRST...
--CASS COUNTY TEEN MURDER INVESTIGATION --
INVESTIGATORS IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA SAY TIPS ARE POURING AS THEY SEARCH FOR ANSWERS IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF 17-YEAR-OLD DYLON OOTHOUDT OF WALKER.
OOTHOUDT WAS FOUND IN THE FRONT YARD OF A HOME NEAR CASS LAKE SEPTEMBER 13.
LAST WEEK... FRIENDS AND FAMILY GATHERED TO SAY GOODBYE...
AS AMPERS AFFILIATE KAXE’S LARISSA DONOVAN REPORTS... THE FAMILY IS REMEMBERING DYLAN... AND LOOKING FOR ANSWERS.
--KAXE PKG – CASS LAKE --
[LARISSA DONOVAN: 27-YEAR-OLD MONICA OOTHOUDT IS DYLAN'S COUSIN AND LEGAL GUARDIAN. SHE SAYS THE VIGIL WAS A NIGHT FOR ALL VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS OF GUN VIOLENCE. SHE ESTIMATES AT LEAST 200 PEOPLE ATTENDED.]
[MONICA OOTHOUDT: SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE, AND WE … I KNOW WE ALL DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER FOR THAT RIGHT NOW. BUT COMING TOGETHER, I THINK, WOULD BE A BIG THING. WE ALL NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND FIGURE THIS OUT.]
[LARISSA DONOVAN: MONICA SAYS HER COUSIN WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS GOOD TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS, DID HIS CHORES BEFORE BEING ASKED, AND NEVER FORGOT TO SAY "DRIVE SAFE" OR "I LOVE YOU.]
[MONICA OOTHOUDT: HE WAS A REALLY GENTLE SOUL, AND HE CARED FOR THE CHILDREN, THE LITTLE ONES, AND HE CARED FOR THE ELDERLY, AND HE LOVED HIS FAMILY TO THE HEART.]
[LARISSA DONOVAN: MONICA IS URGING THE COMMUNITY TO ALLOW THE INVESTIGATORS TO DO THEIR WORK AND TO REPORT ANY INFORMATION TO THE PROPER AUTHORITIES.]
[MONICA OOTHOUDT: IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFORMATION, THEY NEED TO COME FORWARD. NO INFORMATION IS TOO LITTLE.]
[LARISSA DONOVAN: TIPS CAN BE SUBMITTED TO THE CASS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE OR ANONYMOUSLY ONLINE TO CRIME STOPPERS OF MINNESOTA.]
--LARISSA DONOVAN, KAXE NEWS]--
--FOOTBALL PLAYER COLLISION --
A SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA FOOTBALL PLAYER REMAINS IN INTENSIVE CARE ... AFTER SUFFERING A LIFE-THREATENING BRAIN INJURY DURING A COLLEGE GAME ON SATURDAY.
QUARTERBACK MATT DONOVAN LED KASSON-MANTORVILLE HIGH SCHOOL TO THE 2021 STATE FINAL... BEFORE PLAYING FOR NORTH DAKOTA’S MAYVILLE STATE.
HE COLLAPSED AFTER A HELMET-TO-HEMET COLLISION SATURDAY... AND UNDERWENT EMERGENCY SURGERY TO RELIEVE PRESSURE FROM A BRAIN BLEED.
AT LAST CHECK... DONOVAN REMAINED IN A MEDICALLY INDUCED COMA... BUT HIS EYES WERE REACTING NORMALLY TO LIGHT... A DEVELOPMENT HIS NEUROSURGEON CALLS “A WIN.”
[MUSIC TRANSITION]
--NEW RICHLAND FLOODING DISASTER DECLARATION--
WASECA COUNTY IN SOUTH-CENTRAL MINNESOTA HAS DECLARED A LOCAL STATE OF EMERGENCY AS THE TOWN OF NEW RICHLAND STARTS CLEANING UP FROM WEEKEND FLOODS.
CITY OFFICIALS SAY AS MANY AS FOUR OUT OF FIVE HOMES WERE FLOODED.. INCLUDING THE TOWN’S RESIDENTIAL CARE CENTER... AFTER SOME-NINE INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVERNIGHT FRIDAY TO SATURDAY...
CITY OFFICIALS ASK ALL PROPERTY OWNERS TO DOCUMENT DAMAGE AS THE CITY APPLIES FOR STATE AND FEDERAL RECOVERY FUNDS
--WILDFIRE PLANE SHOOTER FACES FEDERAL CHARGES --
A NORTHERN MINNESOTA MAN ACCUSED OF SHOOTING A FIREFIGHTING AIRCRAFT NOW FACES FEDERAL CHARGES.
PROSECUTORS SAY DANIEL PETTIT SHOT A FIREFIGHTING PLANE AS ITS PILOT SCOOPED WATER FROM KJOSTAD LAKE IN SAINT LOUIS COUNTY BACK IN MAY.
COURT RECORDS SAY PETTIT ACKNOWLEDGED FIRING A RIFLE NEAR THE PLANE... BUT CLAIMED HE WAS HUNTING CROWS.
A JUDGE ORDERED PETTIT HELD UNTIL A DETENTION HEARING.
[MUSIC TRANSITION]
--GOOGLE DATA CENTER PRESENTS TO HERMANTOWN--
A CONTENTIOUS FIGHT OVER A DATA-CENTER DEVELOPMENT HAS RESULTED IN SOME CHANGES TO GOOGLE’S ORIGINAL PROPOSAL TO HERMANTOWN...
AT A COMMUNITY PRESENTATION LAST NIGHT... A GOOGLE REPRESENTATIVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT PUBLIC PRESSURE HELPED RESHAPE THE PROJECT.
[LIZ SCHWAB / GOOGLE REPRESENTATIVE: IT HAS CERTAINLY HELPED US TO SHAPE AND IMPROVE THE PROJECT.]
GOOGLE NOW PROMISES ... AMONG OTHER THINGS... TO INSTALL MONITORING WELLS...AND TO REDESIGN THE DEVELOPMENT IN ORDER TO REDUCE WETLAND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.. AND CONTRIBUTE TWO-AND-A-HALF-MILLION DOLLARS FOR LOCAL GRANTS AND NONPROFITS.
BUT... RESIDENTS SAY THE COMMUNITY SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DEMAND PROTECTION FOR ITS WATER AND LAND.
[EMMA RICHTMAN / HERMANTOWN RESIDENT: THE WELL MONITORING WAS NOT AN ORIGINAL PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT. SO, WHERE IS THE CARE FOR THE PEOPLE OF HERMANTOWN? WHY DID WE HAVE TO ASK FOR THIS?]
MINNESOTA POWER TOLD THE COMMUNITY THAT GOOGLE’S CHANGES SHOW PUBLIC VOICES WERE HEARD.
[JULIE PIERCE / MINNESOTA POWER: WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO BE SEEING THEIR DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR DESIGN CHANGES BEING MADE TO THIS FACILITY BASED ON THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.]
THE CITY SAYS FINDINGS FROM ITS INTERNAL INVESTIGATION INTO OFFICIALS’ LEAKED REMARKS DISPARAGING DATA-CENTER OPPONENTS WILL BE RELEASED BY OCTOBER FIFTH.
--ROCHESTER SPORTSPLEX NAMING--
AND... FINALLY....
ROCHESTER’S NEW REGIONAL SPORTS COMPLEX NOW HAS AN OFFICIAL.. AND CORPORATE-SPONSORED-- NAME.
THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED “ALTRA SPORTSPLEX” UNDER A ONE-POINT-ONE-MILLION-DOLLAR NAMING-RIGHTS AGREEMENT WITH ALTRA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION.
KNUTSON (KUH NOOT son) CONSTRUCTION WILL ALSO PAY 84-THOUSAND DOLLARS OVER TEN YEARS TO NAME ONE OF THE COMPLEX’S BALL FIELDS.
THE OUTDOOR COMPLEX IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN SOUTHEAST ROCHESTER... WITH ITS FIRST FIELDS AND CONCESSION FACILITIES EXPECTED TO BE IN PLAY NEXT APRIL...
FOR NORTH STAR STORIES.. I’M XAN HOLSTON.