A Blaine woman has admitted that she sexually assaulted two out of town teenage hockey players in a Roseville hotel room last winter.

Allison Schardin, 39, agreed last week in Ramsey County District Court to plead guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with the sexual encounters with the 15-year-old boys from Colorado at the hotel in the 2500 block of N. Cleveland Avenue.

In exchange for her guilty plea, prosecutors said they would dismiss a four-degree criminal sexual conduct count. In the meantime, Schardin remains free on bond ahead of sentencing, which is scheduled for Jan. 10.

According to the charges:

While in a hotel hot tub with the teens on Jan. 14, Schardin told them she was having marital problems. After the boys went to their rooms, Schardin sent a Snapchat message to one of the boys saying she got into an argument with her husband and wanted to stay in one of their rooms.

After she arrived, Schardin started talking about “sex and stuff,” got in bed with two of the boys and asked them how sexually active they were. She then sexually assaulted two of the teens and asked them to perform sexual acts on her. One of their teammates was in the room watching.

Schardin told investigators after her arrest that her husband and two children were at the hotel for a staycation and spoke casually with the boys at the pool.

She admitted having sexual contact with two of the boys and asking them for a condom, but she “claimed she wasn’t going to go through with ‘it.’”

Not only was September the warmest and driest on record in the Twin Cities, last month turned out to be the least cloudy September on record and one of the clearest months of all time.

Brian Brettschneider, a climatologist in Alaska, over the weekend released a graphic ranking the United States from cloudiest to the least cloudiest, and found that in September the sun shined in Minnesota and much of Wisconsin more than any place in the country.

“For Minnesota, not only was it a record for least cloudy September, it was a record for least cloudy month overall,” he posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Brettschneider used data from 1950 to the present in his analysis.

The Twin Cities saw 18 days last month with clear skies and another 11 with partly cloudy conditions — meaning more sun than clouds — and just one day with cloudy skies, according to the Minnesota Climatology Office.

On the other end of the scale, Florida, known as the “Sunshine State,” and pockets in the Pacific Northwest saw the most clouds last month, Brettschneider found.

With abundant sunshine, temperatures in Minnesota were warmer than normal in September. In the Twin Cities, the mercury hit or surpassed 80 degrees 19 times during the month, the Minnesota Climatology Office said. That helped push the average monthly temperature to 70.4 degrees, making it the warmest September since 1873 when weather record-keeping began.

An absence of clouds also led to a lack of rain. Just 0.06 inches of rain fell during the month, which made it the driest September on record, the Climatology Office said.

Adam Fravel is set to spend the next few weeks inside a Blue Earth County courtroom as he faces trial in the murder of his ex-girlfriend Madeline Kingsbury, whose disappearance drew national attention last year for almost 10 weeks.

Jury selection begins Monday for Fravel, who is charged with first-degree murder. He has maintained his innocence since Kingsbury’s disappearance. But the massive attention on him and Kingsbury already has factored into court proceedings. In addition, Kingsbury’s family won’t be present for much of the trial per a judge’s recent decision.

A special prosecutor was assigned to the case once Fravel was arrested. Fravel’s lawyers successfully argued to have his case moved out of Winona County, where much of the community banded together to search for Madeline and support the Kingsburys after her body was found.

“The court is now asking many of those same individuals to be jurors in a case where either they, or people they know, invested time and/or money in the search for Mr. Fravel’s alleged victim,” attorney Zachary Bauer wrote in a motion earlier this year.

Winona County District Judge Nancy Buytendorp last week granted motions to sequester witnesses from courtroom proceedings until they were called on, as well as bar anyone wearing shirts or clothing with “Justice for Maddi” or any other wording that could influence the trial.

Kingsbury’s family members are among more than 150 potential witnesses, meaning they won’t be allowed in court until they’re called upon to testify.

Madeline’s sister Megan Kingsbury wrote in a social media post the family understands and respects the judge’s decision, though they still have questions and requests for information pending.

“As Madeline’s immediate family, we are also considered victims in the eyes of the law,” Megan Kingsbury wrote. “Victims have certain rights, one of which is to be present in the courtroom for trial proceedings. However — it is not common for immediate family to be witnesses in cases of this nature.”