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METRO/REGIONAL BRIEFING
Wednesday, January 20, 1999
Section: LOCAL
Page: 4B
From staff, wire reports.
Column: METRO/ REGIONAL BRIEFING PLYMOUTH
Boy who drowned at fitness center identified: The boy who apparently drowned in the swimming pool at a suburban fitness
center was 6-year-old Joshua Jackson of Plymouth, the Hennepin County
Medical Examiner's Office said Tuesday.
Joshua was found motionless at the bottom of the pool at about 1 p.m.
Monday, and he was declared dead a little more than an hour later at North
Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale. Lifeguards were alerted by someone else at the fitness club that Joshua was at
the bottom of the pool. The club said in a statement Tuesday that Lifetime
Fitness does require all children under the age of 13 to be supervised by a
parent or legal guardian.'' Capt. Bill Chandler of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department said the
boy's stepfather had been watching him. The father had just tended to the child, helped adjust his swimsuit, and he
went back in the water, and the father was doing his best to keep an eye on
him. And that's the last he saw of him, and a few minutes later, someone
spotted him at the bottom of the pool,'' Chandler said. The boy's death remains under investigation. \ MINNEAPOLIS Shooting victim a St. Paul man: Hennepin County medical examiners on Tuesday identified a man who was
found fatally shot behind a South Minneapolis nightclub as Miguel Navarro. Police found Navarro, 21, of St. Paul lying in a parking lot at 1:15 a.m.
Sunday behind Vannandy's Nightclub in the 3000 block of 27th Avenue South.
Police said the man was shot in the head after a disturbance inside the club
continued outside. 1 of 3 7/25/99 10:55 PM NewsLibrary Document Delivery http://newslibrary.krmediastream.com/cgi...ocument/nl1_auth?DBLIST=pd99&DOCNUM=2760 Police had no suspects Tuesday. \ MINNEAPOLIS City drops trespassing charges against 36 protesters: The Minneapolis city attorney's office Wednesday dropped all trespassing
charges against the 36 people arrested in a massive late December raid on a
Minnesota 55 protest encampment. Several protesters are still charged with resisting arrest. According to Jordon
Kushner, an attorney for the protesters, the charges were dropped because a
Hennepin County District judge found there was insufficient evidence to
proceed. In the largest law enforcement action in Minnesota history, more than 600
armed officers from the Minneapolis Police Department, the Minneapolis Fire
Department and the Hennepin County Sheriff's office removed the few dozen
protesters from seven state-owned houses on the 5300 block of Riverview
Drive. The protesters had camped in the houses for several months in an effort to
stop the planned reroute of Minnesota 55. Shortly after the arrests, the houses
were bulldozed. \ THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. Authorities seize maltreated horses: Authorities in northwestern Minnesota seized a herd of about 40 horses on the
verge of starvation Tuesday. At least four horses have already died, sheriff's deputies and Minnesota
Humane Society officials in Pennington County said. They believe more dead
animals may be buried in the snow. It's what people do to animals sometimes ... I don't understand how anybody
could do it,'' said Tim Fields of the Minnesota Federated Humane Society,
who was at the farm Tuesday. The animals belong to a 46-year-old woman who lives outside Thief River
Falls. She was convicted in 1995 of failing to provide proper food to animals,
court officials said. Authorities attempted to serve her with a search-and-seizure warrant Tuesday,
but she was not home. They were gathering information for possible criminal
charges. 2 of 3 7/25/99 10:55 PM NewsLibrary Document Delivery http://newslibrary.krmediastream.com/cgi...ocument/nl1_auth?DBLIST=pd99&DOCNUM=2760 ORTONVILLE, Minn. Air quality tests planned for school: Classes resumed Tuesday at the public school in this western Minnesota town
after the building was closed for air quality tests. Some of the 745 students in grades kindergarten through 12 had complained
of nausea, headaches and bad odors. A major building and remodeling project at the school is the suspected source
of at least some of the smells that caused the complaints Friday. The school was closed Monday, and tests showed that carbon monoxide levels
inside the school were no higher than the outside air. Results of tests for
molds, dusts and volatile organic compounds were expected to take another
one to 12 days. Those tests are for irritants rather than toxic chemicals. Superintendent Jeff Taylor said the construction project often brings engine
smells into the building, and that a sewer gas odor in December was traced to
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