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.

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.

Jeff Luptak, who was was in good humor when he arrived for emergency surgery in St. Paul, told doctors he was worried more about his hat than his head. A nurse told him after surgery, "You're the luckiest unlucky guy I've seen."

Andy Gabrielson survived deadly storms for more than 10 years, but he was killed Saturday afternoon by a wrong-way driver along an Oklahoma Interstate. The 24-year-old lived in Luverne, Minnesota and stayed in Oklahoma City during the severe weather season. MSNBC reports Gabrielson frequently helped with severe weather coverage on the The Weather Channel and was also featured on NBC's "Dateline." Gabrielson leaves behind a 3-year-old daughter.

A widely known developer and businessman from Hackensack, 56-year-old John Zacher, died after his helicopter went down in Ten Mile Lake in Cass County on Thanksgiving Day. His wife swam to shore and called 911.

Low graduation rates and poor student satisfaction among transfer students means the University of Minnesota will begin accepting fewer undergraduate transfers. The school plans for transfer students to make up 33 percent of their student population.

Officials with the U.S. Bureau of Corrections told the Star Tribune that Denny Hecker isn’t done traveling yet. They declined to say where he’ll be moved next. The former Twin Cities auto-mogul was at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, Friday afternoon. Authorities in Duluth recently took him out of the prison’s general population before he was transferred to a medium-security facility near Madison, Wisconsin, Thursday.