DULUTH — An Edina man died following a single-car crash along the North Shore of Lake Superior on Tuesday night, according to a news release from Cook County.

Douglas Paul Junker was dead at the scene of the accident on Hwy. 61 and Joanne Marie Bergstadt, also of Edina, was transported to a hospital in Duluth. Her condition is not known. According to WTIP, the car went off the road and crashed through a fence alongside a bike path and into a wooded area.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Department and Minnesota State Patrol are investigating the accident.

The death of a 39-year-old inmate at the prison in Moose Lake, found by his cellmate, is under investigation, according to a news release from the Minnesota Department of Corrections.

The man, who has not yet been named, was found unresponsive midmorning Tuesday in his room. Staff attempted life-saving measures, but were unable to save him. His name has been withheld while family is notified.

The Minnesota Department of Corrections Office of Special Investigations, along with the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office, is looking into the death.

Moose Lake’s correctional facility is a medium-security prison in northern Minnesota that can house up to 1,000 inmates.

The federal women’s prison in Waseca, Minn., has been under lockdown for two weeks after nine inmates were hospitalized for drug use, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Two employees at Federal Correctional Institution Waseca were also sent to a hospital for potential exposure to drugs, Donald Murphy of the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in an email.

The low-security federal women’s prison has been on “modified operations” status since Sept. 4, Murphy said. This means that inmates are confined to their rooms and certain areas such as television viewing spaces.

Visits to see inmates are also suspended until further notice, the facility’s website said Wednesday afternoon.

The hospitalized employees have been released from medical care and are back at work, and the inmates have returned to the prison, Murphy said.

The women’s prison in Waseca, about 80 miles south of Minneapolis, has faced significant challenges limiting contraband, specifically drugs, a government watchdog report last year said.

Staff told inspectors that there was an inmate drug problem involving synthetic cannabinoids, also known as K2 or synthetic marijuana, said the 2023 report by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General.

The drugs were entering the prison through letters and books sent to inmates and during in-person visits, the staff told inspectors according to the 2023 report.