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Family battered as deer flies in and out of car

Chris and Sue Blake and their 17-year-old daughter Olivia didn't set out to bag a deer on the first day of hunting season. Unfortunately the deer found them. "I remember another car in the other lane coming toward me and literally that's all I remember," said Chris from his bed at Hennepin County Medical Center. The Blakes, from New Ulm, were headed out for Pizza on Saturday evening on Hwy. 68 in Blue Earth County, when an oncoming Ford Taurus struck a deer directly in front of them.

The small buck went airborne and flew onto the hood of the Blake's Pontiac Vibe. "It came right through the windshield and actually t-boned me in the face," said Chris. But the buck didn't stop there. It glanced off sue in the passenger seat, scratching her face and bruising her shoulder, then smacked Olivia in the face as she sat behind her mom in the back seat. Still the deer had enough momentum to go through the back window and out of the car.

"In my 20 years with the patrol I think this is the first time that I've had a deer come through the windshield, go all the way through the car and then out the back," said the investigating officer, Trooper Mark Fahning of the Minnesota State Patrol. Sue says it was over in a split second. "I said 'deer' and about the same time it was like a scene from Twister." Like a twister, this one did its share of damage. "I have broken bones in my sinus cavity," said Chris, his eyes swollen so badly he can barely see. "Both sockets of my eyes are busted, my nose is broken and my upper jaw bone is broken."

He's been told he'll need at least two surgeries to realign the bones in his face. Medical staff at HCMC will wire Chris's jaw shut. With a broken nose, fractured cheek and swollen face of her own, Olivia has two weeks to heal before playing the lead in "Hello Dolly" at New Ulm High School. "I hope to God, because we have no understudy and I don't want to let everyone down," she said. Count the Blakes bruised, broken - and grateful. "I'm amazed were all still sitting here," said Chris. "Just have to be thankful."

Loyal dog still waits for dead owner

We can teach our pets to sit, to stay and to roll over. But one Texas dog is teaching us a thing or two about friendship, loyalty and dogged determination. Wayne's lawnmower shop is about more than an honest repair at an honest price.

"We fix things." It's about friendships that last. Wayne's son, Paul, runs the place. He learned the business from his dad and then he took it over.

"He liked to argue. He liked to fight. That's my Dad. That's what made him cool." In June, Wayne was killed by a drunk driver.

"I still wish he would walk in that door and say, 'why are you over here running your mouth? Get over there and fix a lawnmower! Make money turning wrenches'!" Even though Wayne could be a little cranky, he was lucky enough to have the loyalty of more than one best friend. There's his son Paul, of course. And then there's his dog, Spot. It's hard to tell who misses Wayne more ... Paul or the dog. When Wayne was alive, the dog would always wait on this country road for her master to come home. Wayne's been gone 5 months now, but everyday Spot still waits.

"I have no doubt that's what that dog is waiting for. It breaks my heart every time I go out there," says Paul. Twice a day Spot leaves her post when Paul looks in on her. But he knows it's not him the dog really wants to see.

"If you can ever find anything that loves you that much, it's the most precious gift in the world." It's possible, one day, Spot might give up. But Paul doesn't think so.

Wisconsin funny man buried before date of death

Appleton's Highland Memorial Park cemetery, a place of quiet repose, has been drawing a few chuckles lately. "I thought it was Charlie's last joke. I thought that this was it, ultimately somehow he had a hand in it," Robin Urban said of his brother-in-law Charles Hendricks. Hendricks - Charlie to friends and family - died nearly a year ago, Dec. 16, 2009.

He was 57 and had a reputation for being a prankster, the life of the party. "Humorous, silly, good-hearted, joking, does the man ever become serious?" Helen Urban said of her brother. According to family, he may have pulled off one more gag from beyond the grave. Hendricks' headstone arrived around Halloween, just time for his Nov. 4 birthday.

"I was looking at it and reminiscing and all the memories and stuff," brother John Hendricks explained. But he says when he got in the car something seemed wrong. "I drove a few yards and started thinking about it, did that date say 2010? According to the marker, Charlie's not dead yet," Urban said emphatically. "I don't know what happened." Urban says said at first she wanted to fix the stone and fix it fast.

She found it hard to believe a mistake could get this far. "There's the person that took the order, there's the person that processed the order, there's the person that cast it," her husband said. Yet no one caught the one-year-off date, leaving the family wondering: Is this what Charlie wanted? "I just started chuckling and laughing," John Hendricks said. "That's my brother for me, one last pinch basically." The family is not in a rush to fix the stone. They'll keep it as is during the winter and address the mistake in the spring.