Michele Schipper went to the local convenience store on Bonneville Drive, it was around 4 in the afternoon and no one else was around. It looked like a ghost town. A man waited behind the dumpsters for Schipper to get out of the vehicle. “Give me your purse.” The man said as he approached her car. “OK.” Schipper said as she turned around and kicked the suspect in the groin area. As he was on his way to the ground, Schipper caught him with a roundhouse to the nose. As she heard a crunching noise coming from his nose, and blood squirting everywhere, she knew she had enough time to get away in her car. She called the cops from the motel parking lot just down the road.

As the cops asked many questions on the description of the suspect, all Schipper could distinguish of the robber was that: he was male, around 6 feet tall, and that he couldn’t take a punch from a girl. There weren’t any witnesses around to help describe him either. Since the whole scenario only lasted a few minutes, Schipper didn’t have a lot of description for the police. As her adrenaline was pumping she felt that the robbery only lasted a second, but shook for an hour afterwards. It was instincts of self defense that kept this girl alive.

71-pound pet dog bites, kills newborn in Independence

The 71-pound Siberian husky, who is called Dealer, jumped on the bed where the 11 day old baby boy of Laura Dvorak, 33 and Daniel Hocker, 48, of Independence, was in his car seat. Authorities said on Friday, that the dog bit the baby in head . After 40 minutes of resuscitation, the baby was pronounced dead. Dealer will be put down in about 10 days and the boys parents have been arrested until further notice.

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Brittany Corrine Isle, 89, of Isanti Minnesota, was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She died peacefully at home on Tuesday morning surrounded by her husband and children. She had many accomplishments in life but loved her family first and foremost.

Brittany was born in a small town in Germany called Bremerhaven on Sept. 15th 1986, while her family was stationed over there for military purposes. Then traveled with her parents Brian and Joleen, along with her older brother Jeremy to Cambridge Minn. where she went to Kindegarten. By that time her parents had gotten a divorce and Brittany, Jeremy and Joleen moved to Isanti when her mom remarried to her step dad Kevin. She then gained two sisters, Heidi and Nicole.

Years later, Brittany met Ian and after only dating for a year and a half, they had their first child Layla on July 14th 2010. They later got married on Aug. 13th 2011. After settling in married life and raising Layla, they adopted their son Jett, who was born on Oct. 26th 2013. Growing up and living in the Isanti county area, Brittany became a well-known stylist to many of those in town. If anyone ever had a specail occasion or hair emergency, you knew that she would be there to help fix the mess. After years of doing hair, Brittany met many wonderful people and touched so many lives.

Brittany is survived by her husband Ian, children Layla and Jett and many grandchildren and friends. Memorial service will be held from 3p.m. till 8 p.m. at the Carlson-Labatte Funeral home in Cambridge, Minn.

Search continues on river for missing student

Craig Meyers was only 21 when he went missing on early Sunday morning. Security cameras have to what they expect, Meyers walking alone in the downtown area shortly before he disappeared. Searchers resume drilling holes to put cameras down to check in the water. The hunt continues for the missing college student.

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Heated discussions occurred at this Thursdays Isanti County commissioners meeting. As Sheriff Gus Dicesari requests money for his department, his requests are turned down with a 2-5 vote by fellow commissioners.

Dicesari argues many good points to why his department needs the $580,00 to run properly. But Commission President Anne Chenn, along with the other commissioners thinks that the sheriff's department can do without this year. Dicesari would like to eight new cruisers along with five additional deputies.

With growing crime in the streets, the deputies can't keep up with it all. With over 150,ooo miles on each vehicle, the cruisers spend more time in the shops than on the road. It is becoming too costly to keep the old ones running. But Chenn begs to differ; she suggests that the deputies leave the vehicles at the station to keep from the wear and tear on the vehicles. But not knowing, parking the cars at each deputy's house keeps the crime levels down in the neighborhoods.

Among many false accusations made by Dicesari, many of which accusing the immigrants of the higher crime population, lower job percentage, bad schooling and health care system. Although very passionate about his topics, it didn't get him far into the meeting when trying to win his budget case. He didn't get the money and raised eyebrows on the topics that he brought up.

Chenn and fellow commissioners not only listened to Dicesari's case, but also backed up their own reasoning to why out of $127 million budget, that his department couldn't be spared the $580,000.

Chenn backed up the immigrants, saying that they are hard working people that take care of the jobs that locals don't want, along with paying taxes like everyone else. there are a reported 5,000 migrant families now in the county trying hard to make a living to be permanent citizens of this country.

It was also stated at the meeting that this year they ran short in the budget due to increased costs for employee's health care and higher fuel costs. Along with spending over $30 million to build a new prison, there was too much crime and overcrowding in the county as it is.

needless to say, there were too many other things in the budget that ranked higher in importance than the sheriff's department. Maybe next year will be better for Dicesari and his deputies.

'Best' picture? Maybe not

The academy is trying out a new logical way in a voting system for this years best picture category. With the old system you would pick one out of five different choices and that would be it. The new system has a one out of ten ranking system. With a process of elimination, the winning picture has to have over 50 percent of the total votes to be considered the winner.

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College Life

My first day at ARCC was pretty great! I was already tired from being at work all day, so there was no room to be nervous! The first class for the week was a night math class. Most of all of the other students were I am assuming people like me, who worked all day and then came to class at night. I could tell from the begining that the teacher we have for the class was going to be great! I have been in a few math classes in my time as a student, but I have never had a teacher that I have truly liked! I would have to say that my first class at ARCC of my first day, is my favorite. It really shows how well a student does in a class when there is a positive instructor behind them encouraging them the whole way.

Roseville man's body found in northern Minnesota

As Vince Tuss reports, the body of Stephen Brockway, 44, was found in Bassett Township near the Duluth-Cloquet area. On January 21st Brockway left the area after visiting family. Leads suspect no foul play was involved but considered Brockway a vulnerable adult.Brockway's body was found three quarters of a mile from his truck near the Jenkins Creek Grouse Management Area just this Tuesday.



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