Small plane crashes at Shakopee park

Shakopee police say a small plane crashed Friday at a park on the east side of the city. Authorities said two people aboard the aircraft were transported to a hospital after the plane went down at about noon at Scenic Heights Park, near East Middle School. There was no immediate word on their conditions.

Police said there were no reports of other injuries.

Photos from the scene showed the plane damaged, but mostly intact, on a grassy slope in an open area of the park. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.

— MPR News

Man charged in fatal shooting

A man has been charged in shootings near Minneapolis homeless encampments that killed one man and injured another.

Anthony Jones, 36, was charged with one count of second-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said in a news release Friday. Jones also is under investigation for another killing that happened Wednesday, the same day as the other shootings, the news release said.

Police used surveillance video to identify Jones as the person who fatally shot a man at point-blank range. Additional investigation connected him to the other “targeted” shootings in the same area of South Minneapolis, the news release said.

— Associated Press

Missing hunter, 74, is found safe

A 74-year-old missing hunter was found Thursday morning in Buffalo County after an overnight search involving more than 125 first responders.

According to the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office, the hunter was reported missing in the 13,000-acre Tiffany Wildlife Area Nature Preserve in the town of Maxwell about 7:35 p.m. Wednesday.

Eventually, a fixed wing aircraft belonging to the Wisconsin State Patrol located the man at about 10:45 a.m. Thursday on railroad tracks in the Tiffany Wildlife Area.

An airboat belonging to the Department of Natural Resources was used by a Wisconsin DNR warden and a Wisconsin State Patrol lieutenant to reach the man.

— La Crosse Tribune