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Date: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Authorities on Friday released the identity of the person who was fatally struck by a train in St. Cloud a day earlier. Carol J. Oltz, 52, of St. Cloud, died Thursday morning after the 100-car freight train hit her on the east side of the city, police said. The incident brought a halt to the eastbound BNSF train, which was hauling crude oil, blocking motor vehicle traffic on St. Germain Street and on 7th Street SE. for a few hours in the morning. An Amtrak Empire Builder train also had to sit tight for about 1 hour and 40 minutes while investigators collected evidence at the scene.
Date: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
A school bus struck and seriously injured a man walking along a frontage road Thursday morning in St. Cloud, authorities said. Andrew J. Boedigheimer, 20, of St. Cloud, was hit shortly after 7 a.m. in the 600 block of Roosevelt Road, west of Cooper Avenue, according to police. There were no students on the bus, which serves the St. Cloud School District, and the driver was uninjured, police added. Boedigheimer was taken to by ambulance to St. Cloud Hospital for what treatment of what police characterized as “substantial injuries.