Star Tribune
Man takes blow to head in Plymouth home; body dragged upstairs, left for police to find
A man was killed with a blow to the head in his Plymouth home, and someone dragged his body up the stairs and left near there for police to find, according to court records filed Monday.
Police said in a search warrant affidavit filed in Hennepin County District Court that officers on Saturday were sent to the townhome in the 13700 block of 54th Avenue N. on a welfare check request from the man’s adult daughter and found large amounts of blood on both levels.
The daughter told police late Saturday that her parents had argued three days earlier, her mother left the state and she had not heard from her father since, the affidavit read.
With the court’s permission, police collected blood in many areas of the home and DNA evidence from the victim.
Officials have yet to release the man’s identity. The affidavit only identifies him by his first name of David.
According to the affidavit:
Officers entered through the unlocked front door and saw “a large amount of blood scattered all around the main floor and on the stairs leading up to the upstairs portion of the townhome,” the filing read. “The blood trail going up the stairs was consistent with a body being dragged up the stairs, and it appeared some of the blood had been attempted to be cleaned up.”
David’s body was face-up on a bed sheet near the stairs’ landing area. Blood also was found in a bathroom and bedroom.
There is “no known connection” between an employee who was stabbed in the neck at a Fleet Farm store in Carver over the weekend and the man who attacked her, officials said Monday.
The stabbing occurred about 2 p.m. Sunday at the Fleet Farm just off Hwy. 212 near the Jonathan Parkway exit, the Carver County Sheriff’s Office said.
The employee, a 17-year-old girl from nearby Jordan, was taken by ambulance to HCMC, where she was last reported to be in stable condition, the sheriff’s office said. Her identity has yet to be released.
The suspect, a 31-year-old man from Kansas City, Kan., was arrested about an hour later during “a high-risk traffic stop” in Chanhassen, according to the jail log and the sheriff’s office.
Charges have yet to be filed. The Minnesota Star Tribune generally does not identify suspects before they are charged.
“There is no known connection between the suspect and the victim,” read a statement from the sheriff’s office, which did not offer a motive for the attack.
NEW YORK — Thousands of Microsoft 365 customers worldwide reported having issues with services like Outlook and Teams on Monday.
In social media posts and comments on platforms like outage tracker Downdetector, some impacted said that they were having trouble seeing their emails, loading calendars or opening other Microsoft 365 applications such as Powerpoint.
Microsoft acknowledged ”an issue impacting users attempting to access Exchange Online or functionality within Microsoft Teams calendar” earlier in the day. In updates posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the company’s status page said it identified a ”recent change” that it believed to be behind the problem — and was working to revert it.
Microsoft shared that it was deploying a fix — which, as of shortly before noon E.T., it said had reached about 98% of ”affected environments.”
Still, the company’s status page later added, targeted restarts were ”progressing slower than anticipated for the majority of affected users.”
As of midday Monday, Downdetector showed thousands of outage reports from users of Microsoft 365, particularly Outlook.
Every Thanksgiving week, the governor of Minnesota welcomes turkeys to the Capitol — but not for a pardon. A “presentation.” Minnesota does not pardon turkeys. Minnesota would, in fact, like everyone to eat more turkeys. Minnesota turkeys generate more than $1 billion in economic activity and account for tens of thousands of jobs, according to the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association.
So this Tuesday, Gov. Tim Walz will welcome a pair of somebody’s dinner to the Capitol and, in keeping with tradition, withhold pardons from them. The birds were raised by Jake Vlaminck, president of the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association, on his farm in Lake Lillian. Paisley VonBerge of the Hutchinson Future Farmers of America chapter, did the work of socializing the young turkeys and getting them camera-ready.
In Washington, Biden ended his final turkey pardon on a wistful note. He and his wife, Jill, were heading to Staten Island for a Friendsgiving with members of the Coast Guard, in memory of their late son. He urged the country to hold in their hearts all the families with empty seats at the table this season.
Being president has been “the honor of my life. I’m forever grateful,” Biden said. “Remember who we are. We’re the United States of America. There’s nothing, nothing, nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together.”
