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Aug 28th, 2010

Summary: Dan Rassier, a teacher whom police call a “person of interest” in the Jacob Wetterling abduction, has been assigned to a different elementary school, provoking an outcry from some parents at his new school. “They’ve brought concerns about placing their children in a potentially dangerous situation,” said Sister Sharon Waldoch, principal of St. Boniface School in Cold Spring, Minn. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on August 28, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that Jaycee Lee Dugard, kidnapped in 1991 from a school bus stop at the age of 11, was found alive after being held captive by a convicted rapist in his backyard as a sex slave for nearly two decades and forced to bear two of his children.


Aug 26th, 2008

Summary: On the 43rd day of his campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman completed his second walking tour, a 50-mile campaign swing across the Sixth Congressional District down Highway 23 from Foley in the east to Paynesville in the west. … In line with his campaign focus on national security, he also reported multiple bombings in Iraq.


Aug 23rd, 2008

Summary: On the 40th day of his campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman continued his 50-mile walking tour across the Sixth District to Rockville, Cold Spring, Richmond, and Roscoe, stopping by the Rockville Rock-Fest festival and parade.


Aug 21st, 2008

Summary: On the 38th day of his campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination as House of Representatives candidate in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman announced the August 22 kick-off of a second walking tour, this time a 50-mile campaign swing from Foley in the east to Paynesville on the western boundary of the Sixth Congressional District. … In line with his campaign focus on national security issues, he also featured a Newsweek interview with Gen. David Petraeus, in which the top U.S. commander in Iraq explains why vigilance is still needed in Iraq and why Afghanistan in some ways poses an even bigger dilemma for the United States.