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Storms cause damage in Minnesota, Dakotas

By wire services
Published June 9, 2005

WANAMINGO, Minn. - Powerful thunderstorms slammed the Upper Midwest and caused heavy flooding, leaving one man missing in Minnesota, destroying a city hall in South Dakota and forcing several people out of their homes.

Jeffrey S. Zelinske, 47, remained missing Wednesday. He was headed to work when a creek flooded the road. His pickup was found in a ditch near Wanamingo.

Another woman, Mona Boomgaarden, 50, survived after her car was swept up in a flash flood by floating on her back and grabbing onto a fence post.

Wind gusted to 92 mph during the night in north-central South Dakota, destroying the one-story city hall in Onaka, flattening a farm cooperative building in Faulkton and damaging other buildings.

SURF CITY, N.J. - A small great white shark is likely responsible for the attack that injured a teenage surfer off the New Jersey coast, experts say.

It would be the first shark attack in state waters in 30 years.

Ryan Horton, 17, said he never saw what bit him when he felt a stabbing pain in his ankle Sunday afternoon. He paddled to shore, where his brother helped him to a hospital. Horton received more than 50 stitches on his lower leg.

WEBSTER, Texas - NASA still has not met three of the 15 recommendations to return a shuttle to space after the Columbia disaster, but a task group overseeing the effort said Wednesday it hopes to complete its work in time for a July launch.

Before NASA sends the shuttle Discovery into orbit, it must eliminate all sources of potential debris from the external fuel tank and finish hardening the shuttle's exterior, the Return to Flight Task Group said Wednesday.

The third recommendation asks the agency to develop a definition for damage that could pose an unacceptable hazard and develop repair techniques that could be done in space to fix tile and carbon panel damage.

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