Chief Warrant Officer Two Lucas Sigfrid was a Champlin Park High School graduate who attended St. Cloud State University before joining the Army. He was one of four soldiers killed when two helicopters crashed on a training mission at a base in Washington state.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating a helicopter crash that killed two Mayo Clinic employees in Florida. The Star Tribune reports the two Jacksonville hospital employees were flying to the University of Florida Monday to retrieve organs. A spokeswoman with the FAA says neither the employees nor the pilot survived after crashing northeast of Palatka, Florida.

Two people were hurt early Wednesday morning in St. Paul when the vehicle they were in went off the road, rolled 40 feet down a river bluff and landed right-side-up. A dramatic rescue ensued as emergency workers used guide ropes to reach the vehicle among the trees and spent about 30 minutes trying to extricate the two.

A woman called 911 in desperation after her horse Teddy, a 20-plus-year-old Tennessee walker, strayed out of his pasture and into a nearby spruce bog, where he sank to his hips in the muck. The St. Louis County Rescue Squad happened to be gathered for a monthly meeting and rushed to help.

New preliminary studies presented this week at a meeting of the American College of Emergency Physicians in Denver suggest stepped-up safety campaigns warning riders of the dangers of combining alcohol and snowmobiling aren't doing much to reduce fatalities.