A follow-up from Thursday’s print edition

The following are selected initial-complaint reports filed by Shakopee police.

Sept. 2

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the September 4, 2008 print edition of the Shakopee Valley News newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to this item, in the form of .pdf's that can be opened with Adobe Acrobat.

Richard “Rick” Renslow Jr., 53, of Prior Lake, passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008 in Rochester, Minn.

Visitation will be held Sunday, Sept. 7, from 3-7 p.m. at Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, 4565 Pleasant Street S.E., Prior Lake, and also one hour prior the service at church.

Celebration of Life service will be Monday, Sept. 8, at 11 a.m. at Riverside Church, 10201 Nicollet Avenue South, Bloomington.

Funeral arrangements by Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home, Prior Lake, 952-447-2633. www.ballardsunderfuneral.com

By Ruth Anne Maddox

Staff Writer

MCoOL.

By Mary Lawson
U of M News Wire

The first large-scale national study of cancer rates among American Indians and Alaska Natives shows that American Indians living in Minnesota and the surrounding Northern Plains have a 39 percent higher rate of colorectal cancer than non-Hispanic whites.

Participants are being sought for the two new programs added to the Shakopee High School athletic department for the 2008-09 school year.

The competitive dance team and boys swimming are both winter sports.

The couple who alleged Savage police acted inappropriately when responding to a 911 call involving a “hostage situation” in 2006 has dropped its federal lawsuit against the city and others.

The lawsuit brought by Julie and Steven Pyle of Savage related to an incident in which a DirecTV dispatcher mistakenly believed the company’s workers were being held hostage by gunpoint at the couple’s home on 154th Place. Upon responding to the 911 call, police determined no improper activity was occurring and that the call from DirecTV was wrong.

Scott County Sheriff Kevin Studnicka announces the beginning of the Minnesota Sheriffs’ Association Scholarship Program for 2008.

Actors age 21 and older are invited to audition for the Homeward Bound Theatre Company presentation of “Whose Line Is It?” from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Sept. 11 and 12 at the Oak Ridge Hotel and Conference Center, 1 Oak Ridge Drive in Chaska.

People throughout Minnesota looking for comprehensive voter information before the Sept. 9 primary can get help from the League of Women Voters Minnesota online voter guide at www.vote.lwvmn.org and a voter information hotline at 877-580-5008.