Former Vikings star Joe Senser testified at his wife's vehicular homicide trial Wednesday, saying Amy Senser told him she'd hit a construction cone or barrel. After seeing news reports that a man was struck and killed on an I-94 exit ramp, Joe Sener says his wife told him she had used that ramp but was not involved in the incident. Earlier, an expert testified that 45 messages were deleted from Amy Senser's phone the day after the hit-and-run.

Amy Senser will testify in her own defense at her vehicular homicide trial. Her stepdaughter, though, will testify for the prosecution. In opening arguments, a prosecutor said the stepdaughter - worried that she was becoming a suspect - demanded that Amy Senser tell authorities who was driving the SUV that struck and killed a man on an I-94 exit ramp last summer. Amy Senser says she was unaware her vehicle had hit the man.

WCCO reports the former Vikings star was scolded by the judge when back on the witness stand Thursday morning. Prosecutor Deborah Russell claims Joe Senser had inappropriate contact with at least two members of the jury after court adjourned Wednesday.

Amy Senser will be sentenced Monday morning in a hit-and-run accident that killed a Roseville man last August on a freeway exit ramp in Minneapolis. In May, a jury convicted the wife of former Minnesota Viking Joe Senser of two felony counts of criminal vehicular homicide. Prosecutors want the judge to send Senser to prison for nearly five years. Her defense attorney has asked for probation.

Prosecutors claim the wife of former Viking Joe Senser told one of her daughters that she had been drinking before she fatally struck a man along a freeway on-ramp in Minneapolis. She was in court on Monday for her last plea before jury selection in a criminal vehicular homicide case.

Jurors in the Amy Senser trial saw photos of the man who was struck and killed on a highway exit ramp last August. Senser has admitted driving the SUV that hit the man but says she did not realize she had struck anyone. Also Tuesday, Senser's stepdaughter testified the family kept her in the dark about the incident for days.

Joel Lehman, who also owns and operates Trattoria Da Vinci in St. Paul’s Lowertown, tells Sun Thisweek he plans to revive the site with a new bar and grill. Renovations on the new Eagan eatery -- Lone Oak Grill -- are underway and should be complete by the end of July. Joe Senser's Sports Grill and Bar closed last fall after Amy Senser was charged in the hit-and-run death of a man in Minneapolis last summer. She was convicted last month of criminal vehicular homicide.