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Latest Minnesota news, sports, business and entertainment:...Jul 7 2009 1:45AM
Associated Press MUSIC DOWNLOADING Industry wants to ban Minn. woman from downloading MINNEAPOLIS (AP) It's been just a few weeks since a federal jury ruled in a music-downloading case that a Minnesota woman must pay $1.92 million. Now, the recording industry wants to make sure Jammie Thomas-Rasset doesn't do it again. Attorneys for the recording industry are asking a federal judge to bar Thomas-Rasset from downloading music, sharing music files and distributing songs to the public. The attorneys also want a judge to order that Thomas-Rasset destroy all copies of recordings that she has downloaded without authorization. Last month, a federal jury ruled Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs. In their request Monday, recording company attorneys say she actually distributed over 1,700 songs through a file-sharing network. Messages left for Thomas-Rasset and her attorney were not immediately returned Monday. CAMPGROUND-INFANT KILLED Infant killed, mother hurt in campground accident BEAVER FALLS, Minn. (AP) A van backed over a tent at a campground in Renville County, killing an infant boy and injuring his mother. Renville County sheriff's officials identified the victim Monday as 4-month-old Wyatt Sander of Redwood Falls. He and his parents were resting in the tent when a woman driving a van went over it while trying to back into a parking area nearby Sunday morning at the Beaver Falls Campground near Morton. His mother Sheena Hinshaw was reported in stable condition at Redwood Falls Area Hospital. His father Jacob Sander was uninjured. The driver dragged the infant and mother under the vehicle. The baby was pronounced dead at Redwood Falls Area Hospital. The 31-year-old woman driving the van was arrested on tentative charges of vehicular homicide, third-degree driving while intoxicated and driving with a suspended license. VEHICLE DEATH-HILLMAN Woman dies from fall in Hillman HILLMAN, Minn. (AP) A woman died from injuries suffered in a fall from a moving vehicle near Hillman on the Fourth of July. Morrison County Sheriff Michel Wetzel reported Monday that 27-year-old Kimberly Blaisdell died at St. Cloud Hospital. According to the sheriff, she and two other individuals were riding on the trunk of a vehicle when Blaisdell fell off. The driver left the area and was located by deputies nearly four hours later. The incident remains under investigation. BOY SHOT-FIREWORKS Minn. boy shot July 4 improving ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) A 14-year-old boy shot on the Fourth of July night is improving. The boy was shot in the neck around 9 p.m. Saturday while attending a family party to celebrate the holiday, and was initially in critical condition. His condition was upgraded Monday to serious. Authorities arrested a 49-year-old man in the shooting. Police said the man lived nearby and may have been angry about partygoers setting off fireworks in the street. No charges have been filed. Police have declined to identify the boy, citing safety concerns. PAWLENTY-EQUIPMENT TAX Businesses stung as Pawlenty delays refunds ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Just a few months ago, Gov. Tim Pawlenty argued that manufacturers should be exempt from paying sales tax on major equipment purchases. Now, as part of his $2.7 billion budget fix, he's going to hang on to their cash longer. Pawlenty's budget fix includes delaying $63 million worth of capital equipment sales tax refunds starting in January 2011. Businesses will wait up to three months for their money. A spokesman for the governor says the refunds will go out by July 2011. The move disappoints some manufacturers who counted Pawlenty as an ally. Mike Yeager of Yeager Machine Inc. in Norwood Young America says he wouldn't have expected Pawlenty to hold back refunds when he was pushing to turn them into a tax exemption. DEPUTY'S RECOVERY Wounded deputy briefly on ventilator MAHNOMEN, Minn. (AP) A Minnesota sheriff's deputy shot several times last February has been taken off a ventilator. The wife of Mahnomen (muh-NOH'-min) County Deputy Chris Dewey says he is resting comfortably. Dewey was placed on a ventilator Saturday when medication failed to slow his heart rate and control his blood pressure, his wife, Emily Dewey, wrote in a CaringBridge update Sunday. Dewey is recovering in a Colorado hospital. He was attacked on Feb. 18 while investigating a suspected drunk driver. Two suspects were ultimately arrested after a nine-hour standoff. On the Web: Dewey's CaringBridge.org site: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/chrisdewey TEMPERANCE DROWNING Man's body recovered from Temperance River TOFTE, Minn. (AP) A man's body has been recovered from a tributary of Lake Superior known to be perilous for swimmers. The strong current of the Temperance River is blamed for contributing to the accidental deaths of at least six others since 1996. The Cook County Sheriff's Office said the body of 45-year-old Ari Sommerfeld of Ramsey was recovered Sunday, some 18 hours after he was reported swept away by the current Saturday evening. Officials issued a news release saying the river is a "very dangerous area to swim" and has "accounted for multiple drownings." (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APNP 07-07-09 0130CDT |
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