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FORT HOOD-MINNESOTA Funeral set for Minn. soldier killed at Fort Hood MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (AP) Funeral arrangements are being planned for a Minnesota soldier who was killed at Fort Hood last week.

Pfc. Kham Xiong (kahm shong) of St. Paul was among the 13 people who died in the shooting spree at the Army base in Texas. Another 29 people were wounded.

Yee Vang, a manager at Legacy Funeral Home in St. Paul, says a traditional three-day Hmong funeral for Xiong will begin at 9 a.m.

on Sat., Nov. 28, at Legacy's Maplewood chapel. It will run through Monday afternoon, Nov. 30. Xiong will then be buried with military honors at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.

Xiong was 23 years old, married, with three young children. He had been preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.

NETHERLANDS-US-TERROR SUSPECT Dutch arrest Somali terror suspect wanted by US THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Dutch prosecutors say they've arrested a 43-year-old Somali man who is wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly financing Islamic extremist terrorists.

The prosecutors say the man lived in Minneapolis before leaving the U.S. in November 2008 and arriving in the Netherlands about a month later.

The man's identity wasn't released because of Dutch privacy laws.

The Dutch statement says U.S. prosecutors suspect the man of bankrolling the purchase of weapons for Islamic extremists and helping other Somalis travel to Somalia in 2007 and 2008.

Several young men from Minnesota are thought to have traveled to Somalia to join the insurgent group al-Shabaab.

CHILD ABUSE CHARGE-MINNEAPOLIS Mpls child treated after alleged beating by father MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A 10-year-old Minneapolis boy took refuge in his family's oven after prosecutors say he was beaten and burned by his father. Then the man allegedly turned up the heat.

Hennepin County prosecutors have charged William T. Hurley with malicious punishment of a child. Bail is set at $18,000. Hurley was in jail Tuesday and was unavailable for comment.

The criminal complaint says that when police arrived at an apartment Friday the boy told officers Hurley had punched him, hit him with an extension cord and burned him with an iron.

Then he hid in the oven. He got out when it started to get warm.

Officers observed marks and burns on the boy's body. They said Hurley told them he had "whooped" the child and that the boy would get another.

The boy was taken to a hospital.

Information from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com GOVERNOR'S DEER OPENER Pawlenty's deer hunt: 1 wounded MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Gov. Tim Pawlenty shot a buck during the Governor's Deer Opener over the weekend, but he and his hunting companions were unable to find it.

Pawlenty hunted near Thief River Falls in northwestern Minnesota on Saturday morning. The buck ran off into the brush after the governor shot it.

A spokesman for the governor referred calls to Mark Johnson, the head of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association and an organizer of Pawlenty's outing.

Johnson says Pawlenty was unable to stay with the search for the wounded deer because he had to leave to speak at a Republican fundraiser in Iowa.

Johnson says hunters in Pawlenty's party tracked the deer through Sunday. They didn't find it but saw signs that it had kept moving.

Johnson believes the deer survived.

LOUNGE CHAIR-DRUNK DRIVING Top bidder for motorized recliner in MN backs out PROCTOR, Minn. (AP) It looks like the famous motorized recliner that police in northern Minnesota seized after it was driven by a drunken driver won't be going to California after all.

Last week, the Proctor Police Department put the chair on ebay and thought it was sold for $10,999.99 to a California man. But on Monday, that man backed out of the deal.

Twenty-four-year-old Clayton Adler of Cupertino, Calif., sent the city of Proctor an e-mail saying there had been a mistake. He said he didn't mean to bid so high and couldn't afford to pay.

Proctor Police Chief Walter Wobig wasn't amused. He's asked the city attorney to look into the matter.

The chair was built by Dennis LeRoy Anderson. He has pleaded guilty to driving the motorized chair with a blood-alcohol level nearly four times the legal limit. Police seized the chair in August.

Information from: Duluth News Tribune, http://www.duluthsuperior.com UMINN-RESEARCH MONEY U of M gets $34 million in federal stimulus money MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center has been awarded more than $34 million in federal stimulus money for a variety of research projects.

The Academic Health Center announced the 128 grants for scientists, physicians and researchers on Tuesday.

Dr. Mark Paller, the center's assistant vice president for research, says the grants will allow the university to start research projects it couldn't in the past.

Some of the most expensive projects are for Alzheimer's prevention, smoking cessation, magnetic imaging research and treatment of heart defects. Each will get about $1 million.

Peller says the money represents an increase of about 15 percent of the money the center would have received this year and next from the National Institutes of Health.

Information from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com MINNESOTA BUDGET Minn. tax collections came in low for October ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Minnesota tax collections continued to lag in October, coming in 2.7 percent below projections.

The state's Management and Budget Department says the state took in $29 million less than anticipated last month as individual income taxes fell off.

Tax collections totaled slightly more than $1 billion for the month.

Tuesday's report continues a trend of disappointing tax collections. Revenues have come in nearly 2 percent, or $81 million, below projections since the current fiscal year began in July.

The latest revenue update only provides half a picture of the state's budget. The full view will become clear when finance officials release a budget forecast next month that factors in spending patterns.

PEOPLE-VENTURA Ventura makes brief return to Minnesota Capitol ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Former Gov. Jesse Ventura paid a surprise visit to the state Capitol Tuesday, but he didn't have politics on his mind.

Instead, Ventura stopped in to get a new "governor's ID card" from the Capitol Security office. Ventura says he calls it his "get-out-of-jail free card." He tells the St. Paul Pioneer Press he's returning to his home in Mexico soon and he flashes the card when Mexican police try to shake him down at traffic stops.

While he says he's out of politics, he's not out of the spotlight.

Ventura says he has finished Filming seven TV shows on conspiracy theories for the Tru Network. He says he's also writing a book on conspiracy theories to be published next spring.

Information from: St. Paul Pioneer Press, http://www.twincities.com MILL FATALITY Man killed by flying piece of wood COOK, Minn. (AP) A man working at a family lumber mill in northeastern Minnesota was killed by a flying piece of wood.

The St. Louis County Sheriff's Office says 45-year-old Frank Steven Kaml Jr. of Cook died when the wood was thrown from a machine Monday afternoon. He was working alone at the mill and died at the scene.

Sheriff's deputies are investigating.

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