The Victim Fights Back

The Victim Fights Back!

Yesterday afternoon around 4 p.m. a robbery occurred at a convenience store on Bonneville Drive. The victim was Michele Schipper, a sophomore majoring in journalism at Anoka-Ramsey Community College (ARCC). According to Schipper, she pulled up to the side of the convenience store, and was getting out of her car when she was confronted. Schipper who was reaching in her car to pull out her purse when a man about 6-feet tall approached her and told her to give him her purse. She quickly complied and when she went to reach for her purse she turned around and kicked him in the groin area, and he started to go down. “I was afraid he wouldn’t stay down, and that he would seek some kind of retribution, so while he was down I gave him a roundhouse to the nose,” stated Schipper. “I could hear some crunching, and some blood spurted so I got in my car and drove way and called the cops from a motel down the street,” said Schipper. The police arrived at the convenience store but the suspect had already fled the scene. According to Schipper, there were no eye-witnesses, and with the robbery only lasting seconds she was unable to see the man well enough to identify him.

Gas-leak Explosion

EDINA-Tuesday afternoon after 2:30 p.m., a house exploded that left houses in the same neighborhood six blocks away feeling the impact, but no injuries have been reported. “It appeared that a backhoe working near the house apparently punched through a gas line, sparking a fire that engulfed the entire structure,” said eyewitness, Jake Schlegel. However, a spokeswoman for CenterPoint Energy said the incident was caused by a contractor who severed a gas line while working at a house in the neighboorhood.

http://www.startribune.com/local/west/85086522.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU

New HeartMate II pump is latest bridge to life

Leonor Childers, 46, and a mother of four, was pregnant with her second set of twins when diagnosed with breast cancer. Leonor had to undergo A mastectomy, chemotherapy, an emergency C-section, more chemotherapy plus six weeks of radiation. Then two weeks later Childers went into cardiac arrest. With Leonors body not being able to endure a transplant, her doctors used a new technology called the HeartMate II (heartpump- used to sustain heart-failure patients until a donor heart becomes available).

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-16-heartdevices16_ST_N.htm

Story Two: Shortchanging the County

ZIMMERMAN-The County Sheriffs' Department & the County Commissioners met Thursday afternoon to discuss issues regarding the sheriffs departments equipment problems and lack of personnel. Disagreements boiled over during the meeting when Sheriff Gus DiCesari accused the County Commissioners of shortchanging the county sheriffs department to save money. Sheriff DiCesari stated, " You're putting the lives of the people in Zimmerman at jeopardy." Dicesari feels that county should be spending more money on the sheriffs' department and law enforcement instead of on programs for migrant workers who come to the community to work, and believes problems throughout the community began when the county allowed migrant workers to come here to work. In reply, President Anne Chenn, of the Commissioners Office said, "the county does not have the money to buy new police cruisers and hire five new sheriff's deputies," and "the migrant workers who come here to work are decent, hardworking people being employed at jobs that local residents don't want to do." Of the 127 million budget the county received, its running short of funds due to the increased cost for health care for employees and higher fuel cost. The county also had to spend an estimated 30 million to build a new prison to alleviate overcrowding. Chenn told DiCesari that he will just have to make due this year with the budget cut, and suggested that the deputies not drive their cruisers home each day to avoid additional mileage and would make the cruisers available to on-duty deputies. DiCesari feels that by letting the deputies drive their cruisers home and parking them in their neighborhoods was a deterrent to crime. However, the commissioners office voted 5-2 against the sheriff's request for additional money for the new equipment and additional personnel.

First Day at ARCC

I remember my first day at ARCC quite vividly. It was a Tuesday morning and my first class was Intro to Communications, taught by Professor McCarthy. This was my first college course so you can only imagine how nervous I was. The morning started off pretty good. I woke up extra early to make sure I was ready on time, and ate a good breakfast as well. I wanted to leave over an hour early for school so I made it there on time, and was able to find my class easily. Unfortunately, I ended up locking my keys in my car, and ended up having to have my neighbor unlock my car, which was after 30 minutes of me struggling alone with a metal coat hanger. My neighbor came over with this odd looking tool that he used when he repossessed car, and was able to unlock my car in about one minute. I was still late to class but its one first day I’ll never forget.

MN Wild face another challenge on the road

The Minnesota Wild has proven to its fans how difficult it is to lead their team to victory against the Dallas Stars with its12th-consecutive loss to Dallas this year on the road. After changing up their two top goalies, and scoring two goals in a power-play, the Wild were still defeated by the Stars 4-2 on Feb. 2, 2010.


http://wild.nhl.com/club/newsindex.htm