Minnesota’s long winters and lack of mountains tends to produce more snowboarders with finely honed technical skills gained from terrain parks and other non-traditional places, like parking garage walls. Snowboarder Dan Brisse of Richmond, Minn., is a fine example of a technically gifted boarder. He is trying to advance in the Winter X Games.
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“Hours before Tom Decker’s family and community gathered at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Cold Spring, Minn., for the slain police officer’s visitation, the man arrested on suspicion of killing him walked out of jail,” via Pioneer Press.

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“As family and friends gather at the dairy farm where officer Tom Decker grew up, townspeople question what set off the violence that led to his slaying,” via Star Tribune.