Summary: The Star Tribune editorial board has endorsed Tom Horner as the best choice for Minnesota in the Independence Party gubernatorial primary. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 2, 2009 Aubrey Immelman reported that the U.S. Department of Defense announced that the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology had positively identified remains recovered in Iraq as those of Navy Captain Michael Scott Speicher, whose F/A-18 Hornet was shot down in a combat mission over Iraq on January 17, 1991 in the first hours of Operation Desert Storm.