Brett Favre’s ribs appear to be just fine. He took plenty of hits and even delivered one. Adrian Peterson scored on the game’s first play, Favre played three quarters despite saying he might have an injured rib, and the Minnesota Vikings beat the Houston Texans 17-10 in a preseason game tonight.
In his second game since unretiring less than two weeks ago, Favre was 13 of 18 for 142 yards. He didn’t move the offense much following Peterson’s touchdown until a 28-yard catch and run by Chester Taylor just before halftime.
Favre leads Vikings to win over Texans
Home runs by Joe Mauer and Jason Kubel in the third inning lifted Nick Blackburn and the Minnesota Twins to yet another Metrodome victory over the collapsing Chicago White Sox, 4-3 tonight. The Twins crept within 3 1/2 games of the first-place Detroit Tigers in the AL Central, leaving the White Sox six games back. Minnesota has won 15 of 17 against Chicago in its soon-to-be-vacated domed home.
The White Sox have lost eight of their last nine games overall. They were so bad last week that manager Ozzie Guillen joked he was stealing money from owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and they finished August at 11-17.
Fire officials say a deadly wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry forest around Los Angeles has destroyed a total of 53 homes and threatens thousands more. The fire has scorched 164 square miles of brush since it broke out last Wednesday. Two firefighters were killed Sunday battling the blaze. They died when their truck drove off the side of a road with flames all around them.
The fire also is burning dangerously close to Mount Wilson, home to at least 20 television transmission towers, radio and cell phone antennas, and the century-old Mount Wilson Observatory. If the flames hit the mountain, cell phone service and TV and radio transmissions will be disrupted, but the extent is unclear.
A missing Red Wing man who had left his home “depressed and upset” Sunday night was found at 5:00 this evening by two friends of his who were among a search party of about 150 people, according to a McClatchy News Service report. Jason Eric Garlitch, 34, was disoriented, wet and covered with bug bites, but had no significant injuries, authorities sayMiss.
An initial ground and helicopter search was conducted by public safety officials Sunday night, but it was suspended at 10:20 p.m. and resumed again this morning. Police used K-9 teams and the Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office’s mounted posse.
A deadly wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry forest around Los Angeles made another menacing advance today, surging toward thousands of suburban homes and a vital mountaintop broadcasting complex while trapping five people inside a smoky canyon. Fire crews battling the blaze in the Angeles National Forest tried desperately to beat back the flames and prayed for weather conditions to ease. The fire was the largest of at least eight burning across California after days of triple-digit temperatures and low humidity.
Five people who refused to evacuate threatened areas reported they were trapped at a ranch near Gold Creek, Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said. A sheriff’s helicopter was unable to immediately reach them because of intense fire activity, Whitmore said, but would try after the flames passed. “What this says is, ‘Listen, listen, listen,”’ Whitmore said. “Those people were told to get out two days ago, and now we are putting our people in danger to get them out.”
Over the weekend, three people who refused to evacuate were burned when they were overrun by flames, including a couple who had sought refuge in a hot tub, authorities said.
STEWARTVILLE — A 20-year-old Stewartville man is in custody in connection with recent fires at the Eastside Village apartments in Stewartville.
DRESBACH — A man who was hit by a train in Dresbach, near Winona, on Friday has died.
Ryan Lange, 25, of Dresbach, was found beneath a Canadian Pacific train along Riverview Drive at 12:52 p.m. Friday, according to Winona County Sheriff Dave Brand. He said the train was heading for St. Paul when it hit Lange, who was on foot.
“The train was traveling at a low speed, probably 20 miles per hour, but it couldn’t stop in time,” Brand said.
Lange was in “very critical condition,” and a medical helicopter took him to Gundersen Lutheran in La Crosse, Wis., Brand said. He said Lange was taken off life support on Saturday.
The accident is still under investigation.
A lane of southbound traffic was closed on South Broadway just south of Center Street in Rochester Monday morning following a water main break in the area.
Rochester Public Utilities reported the break shortly after 8 a.m. The pavement was wet on Broadway but water was no longer flowing in the area around 8:45 a.m. as RPU workers started repairs.
RPU reported that water will be turned off in the area until the repair work is done, but water was still running at CJ’s, directly across the street from where workers were making repairs, at around 8:45 a.m. Water was also still running at the Post Bulletin, which is a block away from the water main break.
An RPU spokesman couldn’t be reached for comment.
The National Weather Service has issued a frost warning for parts of northeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin tonight, according to an Associated Press report. Residents there should consider protecting their sensitive plants, according to the weather service.
– Parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin under frost warning
Twins’ batters brought in three runs in the eighth inning to beat the Texas Rangers 5-3 this afternoon in Minneapolis, according to the Associated Press.
