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Campus & State
Family escapes carbon monoxide
Dana Howard and her three young children were released from St. Cloud Hospital after being treated for living in the presence of dangerous levels of carbon monoxide in their St. Cloud home.
Howard had been renting the house for several weeks and was able to call the police after she and her children became disoriented and sick from the odorless gas.
Firefighters arrived and found the carbon monoxide level to be very high and beyond dangerous levels. Officials say the family may have been only hours away from death.
The house was not equipped with carbon monoxide detectors and police say this is an example of why households should have them because the odorless and tasteless gas can go undetected by humans.
Pawlenty in support of death penalty
Since becoming governor, Tim Pawlenty had been quiet about his view regarding capital punishment. But in light of the missing person's case involving college student Dru Sjodin, Gov. Pawlenty has voiced his support of the death penalty in certain cases.
Cases that deal with child and police murders and murders coupled with sexual assaults would allow juries to consider capital punishment as an option.
Minnesota is one of 12 states without the death penalty and federal prosecutors in the state have not asked for capital punishment since 1988.
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