Thirty One Year Old Man Confesses to Killing 17 People

Early morning on May 27th a Women called the county dispatch informing them of some odd happenings around her apartment. At 2 a.m. Glenda Cleveland, 37, reported that her daughter and niece had seen a naked boy on a street corner and that the boy seemed like he needed help. On her call with dispatch she said, "He's been beaten up real bad...He can't stand up....he has no clothes on. He is very hurt."
Cleveland's daughter and niece that witnessed this crime unfolding believed that the naked boy on the street, was just that, a boy. Not a grown male, but a boy. That was Cleveland's main concern in the whole situation. When she called in and reported what she had seen, the dispatcher sent a squad car to the scene.
Later Cleveland was informed by her daughter and niece that they had flagged down a cop car, but the police had taken no information from them about who they were or if they had any additional information. At that point Cleveland and her family began to believe that this child was being raped and she informed the police of her suspicions, "Their names or nothing was taken down and I wonder if this situation was being handled....what it indicated was that this was a male child being raped and molested by an adult." Even through out the conversation with dispatch it seemed like nobody was taking her seriously even as she stated, "The fact is a crime was being committed."
The dispatcher phoned the squad car, after the naked male had been spotted, and the police officers were heard laughing as they reported, "36...Intoxicated Asian, naked male, was returned to his sober boyfriend." The officers kept laughing all throughout the conversation with dispatch. Durring this time they also had a report of a male dragging a naked male who looked injured.
After many phone calls with dispatch, and other officers, Cleveland finally tracked down the car number of the police officer that was sent to check out the situation, who didn't take down any information. Eventually she got him directly on the phone and questioned him about what exactly had happened, and if the situation was being handled correctly. She was told that the naked male was not a child but infact an adult. Cleveland questioned the officer many times, wanting to know if he was positive that the male was an adult, and he said yes. The officer continued to explain that this naked male was a boyfriend to another man in the apartment complex, Jeffrey Dahmer.
Police officers could have saved a life that day. Later they found out that this naked male was actually 14 years old, and was a Laotian boy by the name of Konerak Sinthasomphone. When police had investigated into Dahmers apartment they eventually found 11 mutilated bodies, a month after they had returned Sinthasomphone to Dahmers apartment, and realized they could have saved the boy. Dahmer admitted to killing 17 people, and proceeded to plead guilty. Two police officers, whose names have not yet been released have been suspended.

St. Paul teen charged in fatal shooting

A 19 year- old man has been charged with second degree assault for giving a group of 16 year old boys a gun. Thanksgiving morning the group of teenage boys were playing a game of Russian roulette and a 15 year old boy was shot in the back of the head. The shooter claims he didn't know the gun was loaded.

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Stress

I relieve my stress by laying down for a nap most of the time. If I can't do that I try to just step back and listen to a song that is cheerful and light for a couple mintues just to relax and collect my thoughts.

Average Alcohol Consumption

Average Alcohol Consumption

Many young adults across America are challenged with the social pressures to drink. How they react can shape their entire lives, and show true character. Kids are known for experimenting in their high school and college ages with drinking, but some can get into some real trouble, and others just can’t kick the habit when they are forced to face the "real world." Either way it is apart of the growing up experience, weather they choose to drink, or not to.

So why do young adults drink, even though it is illegal for them in high school? Many answered that they drank socially in their mid high school years, but when they were even younger it was to get drunk, or buzzed. Only one person answered that they drank it for the taste.

The drinking age in some places are as low as 16, but here in Minnesota is the age of 21. Even though it is illegal, an overwhelming 98% of the students who answered (who are between the ages of 16-25) said that they drank before the age of 21. With 66% of the students between the ages of 14-18 which are the ages you are in high school. Many felt pressured into drinking, or just saw others doing it and accepted that it is okay, so they tried it too, but didn’t necessarily make a habit out of it. Just over 55% of students said that the never drank alcohol regularly in high school, they only tried it. However the remaining 45% of students consumed alcohol at least every couple of months.

Once those students started college, the percentage completely flipped, with 55% of students drinking regularly, and the remaining 45% being split between never drinking and drinking once a month. Also, more women, rather then men were willing to admit their drinking habits, and they were less likely to be drinking more than once every couple of months. Men were more likely to drink at least once a week, or once a month.

Most students are drinking for social purposes but only 42% of them answered that they care that their friends drink, that being that they choose their friends around it, and the remaining students didn’t care at all if their friends drank.

There are a lot of stories on the news, and journals in magazines that are written about students and alcohol abuse at young ages. They say that there is a wide spread problem among Americas young adults with binge drinking and over consumption on general. Scholars believe that kids are out drinking all the time, every weekend and that this develops problems academically, and starting to drink young can change the likelihood of becoming addicted to alcohol. However, if you actually speak with the students, both high school age, and college age, they will tell you that it is not a big part of their lives and that they choose not to drink, or drink only once in awhile.

Most of what we hear seems to be the news exaggerating a few instances of students not being able to control themselves, and binge drinking. In reality it is not as big of an issue as they seem to make it out to be.

First-ever lockdown drills today at Mall of America

Today the Mall of America will have its first lock down drills, ever. The times of the drills are at 10:05 a.m and 9:25 p.m. The police have been preparing for these drills, and lockdown procedures for months, visiting with each individual store to go over procedures. They came up with these lockdown procedures to keep the public safe in unusual circumstances, and to buy the police more time.
A new set of drills will start at the begining of the year and then run twice a month.

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Parking Issue at Anoka-Ramsey Community College

Current enrollment at Anoka- Ramsey Community college is alot higher than previous years. This has lead to some problems with parking for students who come on campus for classes. Many students have to walk from the Goodwill parking lot down the road, and some even farther.

The parking situation has led to more tardy students, and all over frustration among the students who arrive later in the day. Students who arrive later than 9a.m. often complain that they are the ones parking far back, or drive around for as much as twenty minutes looking for a parking spot.

One girl from ARCC stated, "I am often late to class because I don't know how much time to plan for walking to class," which seems to sum up the overall adittude students have over the situation. For other students the main concern is the weather that they have to walk through. Some say the worst days are when you have to walk through the snow, ice, or rain when you are parking so far away.

Students have been speaking up, and telling campus directors that this is unacceptable. An almost 70% ratio of the students have complained saying that the school should be doing more to solve this issue, but so far have seen no new improvements. One student even considered the possibility of covered parking ramps in the parking area to make up for the lack of space.

Overall students are annoyed and do believe the school could be doing better to solve this issue.

Truck driver killed after ammonia release

Rosemount police believe a hose in the truck came loose causing the ammonia leak. One of the drivers was found dead on the scene, the other was rushed to the hospital but is still in critical condition. All around the scene has been shut down in order to examine if it is safe for the public.

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France

My favorite trip was my trip to France with my French class the summer after my Sophomore year in highschool. We spent two weeks roaming around France checking out castles, beaches, and random other things that were interesting to the culture.
The best part of the whole trip was the people who went. A few of my really close friends were all along on this trip, one of them being a wild, crazy out going girl by the name of Nicci, whom I can now say is one of my best friends.
Nicci was my roomate through out the trip and on the very first night we were staying in a hotel in Paris. When we looked out of our room there were to homeless men on the corner, which were the first I had ever seen in my life, (you just don't see homeless people around my small home town) and Nicci decided she wanted to say hello. She yelled out in a chipper voice, "Bonjour!"
The men walked over tward the window and yelled, "Salut," back up to us, which means Hi.
Then the men started to yell more up to us, and all that we could catch out of it was that they were asking us if we would sleep with their friend. Nicci has a bit of a temper and found a big loaf of bread and chucked it at them. Let me tell you, this girl has some good aim, and hit the man square on the head.
However, this bread was no ordinary bread it was so ridiculously hard that none of us had been able to bite into it. I'm sure that man was mad. Nicci saw it as she was feeding the homeless, but like I said shes a kind of crazy girl. When we saw he was mad we both ducked down underneith the windows and I crawled over to the side window and peered out, the man saw me and started yelling and shaking his fist again. Soon we decided to go into the next room and chill with our friends instead.

Around 3 a.m. we went back into our own room and layed in bed. In France they have no air conditioning, and so we had to sleep with our windows open. I was just drifting off, when I heard Nicci, "Missy....Missy....MISSY!!"
"WHAT?"
"What if the hobo's come and shank us in our sleep?"
"Nicci, we are up four stories and I highly doubt that they can climb four stories of solid brick."
"Oh, okay."
And off she went, sleeping and drooling away.
This is only one of the few crazy nights we had, our whole trip was filled with laughter and joy. It was the first time I had ever been away from home, my parents, my family, and I was never happier.
That was how I spent my first night in France.

Charges: Drunk Twin Cities mom with 2 kids in car leads cops on 4-mile chase

A Monticello mother was found drunk driving with a level of .17 thursday afternoon. She had an open bottle of rum in her diaper bag, and a bag of marjiuna in the front seat. Her two kids who are 2 and 4 years old were also in the car, with only one buckled in. Monica Say was brought in and charged on friday morning, after leading the police on a four and a half mile chase into delano. Her court date is December 1st.

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St. Paul police investigate death of 15-year-old

Bee Vue, 15, was found dead in his bedroom after a drinking party the night before. Some friends were worried about him, and brought him home to sleep. Some family members then took him up to his room, and they found him dead just before they called the police.

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Halloween Costumes

My favorite Halloween costume was a princess costume I wore in my Freshman year of highschool. A friend of mine gave me a princess crown on my birthday and I wore that along with a pink dress my mom wore in a wedding. That night a bunch of my good friends and I went trick or treating. The other costumes that night included, a pimp, a girl, a boy, and a pumpkin. The princess costume was my favorite because it was the most memorable halloween I have ever had, and that's what I was wearing.

5 years in prision for Red Lake man's attack with scalding water, grease

A 42 year old man from Red Lake has been sentenced to five years imprisionment for assulting a women by pouring boiling water, grease, and beef over her head. Ronald Dean Oakgrove Sr. pleaded guilty, but proceeded to tell the women, "I hope you die."
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