Three months after Taylor J. Baune married his high school sweetheart, the 21-year-old Marine corporal from Andover was killed in Afghanistan on a foot patrol. "I am trying to hang in there," his wife, Colleen Baune, 20, told the Pioneer Press. "I think everyone is still in shock." They met when they were students at Anoka High School.

The hijacker known as D.B. Cooper leaped from a 727 with $200,000 over Washington state 40 years ago today and became a folk legend. The case remains a mystery. Dozens of people around the country--including Minnesota--speculate family members or acquaintances bear resemblance to the infamous robber.

Minnesota is on pace for one of the safest years for pedestrians in a decade. Last year, October marked the deadliest month for pedestrians with seven deaths. Officials are hoping for a safer fall in 2011.

The U.S. Justice Department is suing the city of Truman after a city employee's hours were cut after he returned from a year of active military duty in Kuwait. The suit claims U.S. Army Reservist Michael Schutz's hours were cut once he returned. He was ultimately laid off. The city says the action is for budgetary reasons.

Brad Jacobs has been telling stories in Minnesota for longer than most journalists have been alive. He started at Hubbard Broadcasting in 1957 and over the years he shot the famous to the infamous.

Twenty-three pedestrians have been killed so far by vehicles in 2012, making it the deadliest year in the last five, the Star Tribune reports. Among the latest victims was Cléo Thiberge, a 19-year-old college student from France who had just arrived in the Twin Cities when she was struck by a vehicle in St. Paul.