Storms prompt tornado alerts
MINNEAPOLIS -- The National Weather Service issued several tornado warnings as rough weather moved from west to east Sunday afternoon and evening across Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Three barns were blown down, and a mobile home was knocked off its foundation by high winds in Houston County of far southeast Minnesota. Kurt Kuhlers, the county's emergency management director, said there's no confirmation of a tornado in the county, but that the storm packed strong winds when it blew through about 4:30 p.m.
There were no deaths or injuries, but Houston county's 911 phone system was knocked off line for about an hour.
Several warnings were issued as the evening went on as trained spotters and law enforcement reported tornadoes, funnel clouds and tree and power line damage in western and northern Wisconsin.
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Authorities ID 2nd shooting victim/
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. -- Hennepin County authorities have released the name of a second person shot to death in the break room of a Festival Foods supermarket in Brooklyn Park.
The medical examiner said Sunday that Michael M. Habte, 21, of Brooklyn Park died of multiple gunshots.
The other victim of Friday night's shooting, Abigail Fedeli, 20, of Brooklyn Park, died of a shot to the neck.
The man suspected of shooting them killed himself in Minneapolis as police closed in. His body was found below the Washington Avenue Bridge. His name has not been released.
Tom Clasen, vice president of operations for the company that operates Festival Foods, said Fedeli, Habte and the shooter were all employees at the store. The victims were working at the time but the shooter was not.
