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Friday, January 25, 2013

Sheriff Urges Ice Safety This Weekend

After seven vehicles plowed through the ice on Lake Minnetonka, Sheriff Stanek reminds citizens to be safe.

Editor's Note: The following is a Hennepin County Sheriff's Office press release. With warmer temperatures expected this weekend, more people are expected to be using the county’s lakes for recreation. The Sheriff’s Office urges all residents to use caution when using area lakes and other bodies of water. Remember that no ice should ever be considered completely safe. Freezing and thawing have created variable ice conditions.     Last weekend, there were seven vehicles broke through ice on Lake Minnetonka.   Hennepin County residents are urged to review these safety guidelines: · Anyone using the ice –including people on foot, snowmobiles and ATVs --should use safety precautions such as wearing life jackets.  Sheriff’s deputies wear life …

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10:58 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Rick S. Apple Valley, just wondering if Layfette bay is okay to go fishing on and drive on? 02/19/13. rickstuntebeck@hotmail.com   more ›

Thursday, December 13, 2012

UPDATED: Car Falls Through The Ice At Cedar Lake

Hennepin County Sheriff, Minneapolis Fire and Police Departments responding.

UPDATE 8:42 p.m. 12/13/12: Around 3 p.m., Honda Civic plunged into the icy depths of Cedar Lake in Minneapolis. Minneapolis firefighters, police officers, and Hennepin County Sheriff's deputies raced to the scene, deploying two airboats in what appeared to be a desperate race to rescue survivors. When Sheriff's Department divers reached the submerged sedan, however, there were no bodies to be found. It wasn't a sign of The Rapture, but something altogether more suspicious.  An hour after emergency crews raced to the lake, Sheriff's Department spokesperson Lisa Kiava told Patch in an email that the car was, in fact, stolen. Investigators, Kiava wrote in a press release issued later Thursday night, think the thieves set the car on an …

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