Maria Loughlin July 6^th, 1992- September 27, 2088

            Age 96, of Boulder, CO. Maria passed away at rest in the comfort of her own home, witnessed by her 32 year old granddaughter, Ann. Since 2080, Maria has been a widow when she lost her husband Jay, 90 to cancer.

            Maria was born in 1992 in the heart of small town Rogers, MN. Loughlin is looked upon in her community as this small town girl, cashing her dreams. Her heart and devotion was out on the courts. That’s what made Maria Loughlin who she was; she learned everything she knew from playing the game. Maria’s lifetime goal was to further her career in physical therapy and leave her home to bigger and better things.

            “No matter how crazy her thoughts may be, she’ll do anything to make them possible,” 65 year old son, John stated on his mother’s aspirations. Maria is leaving behind two sons, John and James along with three beautiful granddaughters now in their 30’s.

Story 2

Law Enforcement gets pushed on hold. Are we left in good hands?

According to Sheriff Gus Dicesari, the county commissioners are letting the people of Polk down, “You’re putting the lives of the people in this county in jeopardy.” This debate hit a boiling point this Thursday when it was brought up that the county commissioners are shorting the sheriff’s departments to save money. Polk County is given a $127 million dollar budget for the year 2011. Commission President Anne Chenn says, “The county ran short of money this year because of increased costs for health care and higher fuel costs.” On the other hand Commissioner Anita Shenuski, (siding with Sheriff Dicesari) disagrees saying Polk’s shortage issues are coming from migration. “We never had problems until we began letting migrants come to this county to work,” and “they take away jobs from decent people.” Chenn snaps back in the heated discussion claiming Shenuski is being a hypocrite.

Dicesari informs commissioners that he needs to replace eight police cruisers that have reached over 150,000 miles each. Anne Chenn responds that, “the county does not have the money to buy new police cruisers.” Chenn suggests to Diceasri’s deputies that they should not drive their cruisers home daily, and even that scenario will preserve mileage. As Sheriff Dicesari was voted against his request for additional money 5-2, the sheriff department will have to make do with what they got for the year.

STORY 2

Two killed and several injured in one big chain reaction. At 6:45 am, this morning, a tragic

tractor-trailer collision occurred. Not only were the two tractor-trailers involved, but a total of four

trailers and 14 cars were unfortunate as well. There was one diesel fueled trailer that was lucky

enough to not tip over and dump all over to catch fire. Rockford’s Police Department has not yet

completed the full investigation on the occurrence of the accident.

                Though we are blessed to have only lost two lives in this tragedy, twenty were taken to

 the hospital in injury, and 4 of them are seriously injured (life threatening).  This scene held quite a

backup and has created a fair mess during rush hour traffic, being that Interstate 790 has been

closed all day without any notification of when exactly it will open again.