Articles written by Jill Burcum

Jill Burcum, Star Tribune|Dec 26, 2011

The phone call came, as I knew it would, from the newsroom, back in March 2005. I was on vacation when a tragic Minnesota news story broke -- the Red Lake Indian Nation school shooting. My assignment when I came back: spelling the weary Star Tribune reporting crew already on the scene. That's how I found myself driving north on a cold Sunday night wishing I'd become an accountant. I'd spent much of the past year and half covering the Cold Spring school shootings and the Wisconsin deer hunter slayings. Now I was parachuting into another...