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Police were called to John Marshall High School at about 7:40 this morning on a report of a large fight in the cafeteria.

The disturbance was quickly controlled. There were no initial reports of weapons or injuries.

A truck driver is dead and three other people were injured after an ammonia leak in Rosemount tonight. Rosemount Fire Chief Scott Aker says trucks were being loaded with ammonia at CF Industries about 6 p.m. when the leak happened. The truck driver was overcome with fumes and died. Another truck driver had to be airlifted to the hospital, and two Rosemount police officers were taken to the hospital by ambulance.

WADENA — Search crews turned up empty after another day of the ground and air search in northwestern Minnesota for a pilot missing since Friday. Lieutenant George Supan of the Minnesota Civil Air Patrol says 11 planes and six ground crews spent today searching an area concentrated around Staples but stretching from Wadena to Hallock. He says the sunny weather made for ideal search conditions but brought no luck.

Family members say that pilot Andrew Lindberg of Farmington was the only person aboard the PA-28 Piper Cherokee that left the Airlake Airport near Lakeville on Friday. He was planning to go to Hallock, in northwestern Minnesota, to go deer hunting with his father. He never arrived.

Minnesota health officials reported six more swine flu deaths and one more from an undetermined flulike illness today, but said overall flu activity in the state dipped again. The new deaths brought the state’s total number of confirmed deaths from swine flu as of Saturday to 21

Two-vehicle crash

Emergency personnel responded to the scene of an accident involving two pickup trucks Monday at the intersection of First Avenue Southwest and Sixth Street Southwest.

Each vehicle had only one occupant - both of whom were uninjured.

The Minnesota Twins have acquired shortstop J.J. Hardy from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for outfielder Carlos Gomez.

Rochester Century parlayed a mistake-filled opening game by Northfield into an unstoppable momentum, and the No. 1 seeded Panthers cruised to a quick 3-0 win over the fourth-seeded Raiders in the semifinal round of the Section One, Class AAA tournament at Century High School. It took just an hour for Century to decide the matter, winning 25-13, 25-19, 25-16 to gain a spot in the section final for the first time in program history.

Century (22-6) will meet No. 2 seed Farmington (16-6) at 7 p.m. Saturday at Mayo Civic Center Taylor Arena. Farmington also won its semifinal match in three games over No. 6 seed Faribault.

The Target Clinic at the south-side Target superstore in Rochester has received a batch of seasonal flu vaccine. There are 150 doses for healthy individuals age 2 to 49 and a “very limited” number of doses for children ages 18 to 35 months. Want to check availability before you go? Call 206-5020, extension 6.

Please note: this is seasonal flu vaccine (it is not vaccine against pandemic H1N1 influenza).

The United Nations is temporarily relocating about 600 staff after the deadly Oct. 28 attack by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Rochester emergency personnel responded to a report of a man who fell 12 feet from a ladder on a property in southeast Rochester.

The report said the man, about 40 years old, was trimming a tree when he fell flat on his back.