Dukie continues to recover from the crash that claimed three lives, including his owner, early Thursday morning southeast of Eau Claire. Two vehicles drove into a 15-foot-deep highway washout. The Wausau Daily Herald reports Dukie suffered a few scratches and his left hind leg had to be amputated. The newspaper says he'll live with his owner's sister.

A fire broke out early Sunday morning at the Buck Hill ski and snowboard area in Burnsville. KARE 11 reports flames were shooting through a temporary tent structure when firefighters arrived. The haunted house was under construction and scheduled to open early next month. No injuries were reported and the cause of the blaze is still under investigation.

A semitrailer traveling through Waseca became the second in less than a week to veer off a highway and sink through the ice. KARE 11 says emergency workers were able to tow the truck out of Clear Lake, just off Hwy. 14. The State Patrol says the truck jack-knifed because of icy roads and high winds.

Stephen and Teresa Datta flew from Rochester to Pontiac, Mich., to be married at the Erebus Haunted Attraction, one of the world's largest haunted houses, the Oakland Press reports. They both wore black and she carried a bouquet of black flowers. They were married by a TV show host dressed as a warewolf.

A veteran pilot had just purchased the biplane from a private seller and was on his way home when he noticed the engine quit when he switched over to the craft's auxiliary fuel tank. He decided to risk an emergency landing on a Redwood County highway, but crashed when the plane's wheel hit a ditch. (Photo of Pitts S1S biplane courtesy of Graham Bird. The pilot was flying a Pitts S1C.)

Mike Quast, of Moorhead, for decades has been pursuing the dark 6- to 7-foot figure he saw as a boy in 1976. The search for "Hairy Man" was recently featured on a Syfy channel episode of "Haunted Highways."

The U.S. Department of Transportation is releasing $473 million in unspent highway earmarks from 2003 to 2006 and allowing states to use the money on any eligible project this year. Minnesota's share is $11.2 million. The Business Journal writes the state must identify the projects that will be funded by this money by Oct. 1.