Community Corner

Blood on the Water: Burnsville Woman Saw it under the Stillwater Lift Bridge

But there was something fishy about her story.

The time: about 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 29.

A call came into the Stillwater Police Department from the St. Croix River. 

A woman from Burnsville said she "saw what appeared to be blood under the lift bridge on the west side," according to the police report. 

A pair of Stillwater police officers responded. Their determination:

"It was fish blood."

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