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Mohamed Bakari Shei was sentenced to 176 days in the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center on Monday for two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with someone under 13.

While investigators continue to be tight-lipped regarding the investigation into the death of an Argonia teen, news of the death and circumstances surrounding it are reaching far and wide. Jacob "Jake" Allen, 19, was found dead during the early morning hours of July 5 after being struck by a Burlington Northern-Santa Fe train on Bluff Road near Milan. News reports from Kansas City to Houston, Texas, are reporting details about the death. Investigators have steadfastly refused comment on any of the details that the Associated Press reported last week it had confirmed. But it is the Internet that has fueled...

BNSF Spokesman: Act Was 'Incredibly Cruel' POSTED: 9:02 pm CDT July 8, 2004 UPDATED: 9:52 pm CDT July 8, 2004 WELLINGTON, Kan. -- In the pitch blackness of the rural Kansas night, the object lying on the railroad tracks looked like a traffic cone someone had thrown onto the line. The members of the train crew asked each other, "What is that?" They certainly didn't think it was a human being. But the sound of the impact didn't sound like it came from a traffic cone. The train screeched to a stop. Its crew searched the tracks. Nothing.