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Jill Burcum

Assistant Managing Editor, Enterprise

Phone: 612-673-7846

E-mail: jburcum@startribune.com

Jill Burcum is the Star Tribune's assistant managing editor for enterprise reporting.

Recent content from Jill Burcum

• A black-and-white blast from the past
  Long-forgotten photos from Iowa in the early 1940s finally see the light of day.
  Aug 29, 2008
• Reader inquiry: The new 35W bridge
  How important a role should aesthetics play when MNDOT selects the team to build the replacement span? To weigh in, please e-mail Jill Burcum
  Sep 1, 2007
• Troubled trail ends in jail cell // Double-murder charges stun suspect's foster family
  Originally published 03/13/05
  Jun 2, 2006
• A long year at Red Lake: Embracing Baby Chase
  His father slain, an infant and his bereft young mother have been cradled by their community.
  May 8, 2006
• Was Jeff Weise a 'victim'? Debate splits Red Lake familiies
  RED LAKE, MINN. -- A percolating debate about whether teenage gunman Jeff Weise should be called a "victim" is turning financial.
  Apr 14, 2005
• Guard's family member may have known of Weise's plan
  RED LAKE, MINN. -- The sister of Derrick Brun, the slain Red Lake High School guard, said Tuesday that a family member may have been one of the people from the area who knew of plans for the March 21 school shooting.
  Apr 13, 2005
• Teenage mom grieves over loss of boyfriend in school shooting
  RED LAKE, MINN. -- It is in the depths of the night, when their baby sleeps beside her, that 14-year-old Alex Roy senses her boyfriend, Chase Lussier, is with her again.
  Apr 3, 2005
• Seeking healing in the old ways
  PONEMAH, MINN. -- The clamshell already held smoldering embers of sage and cedar when 16-year-old Kara Stillday, the sister of school shooting victim Thurlene Stillday, added another offering to the tiny, sacred fire stoked by tribal elders in the Red Lake reservation's most traditional community.
  Apr 2, 2005
• Officials rush to meet needs of the grieving
  In Ponemah, a small town on the Red Lake Reservation, the pounding of ceremonial drums at the town's health center has signaled help is available to those with hearts heavy with grief over the March 21 school shooting.
  Mar 31, 2005
• Louis Jourdain 'just kind of freaked out'
  This story first appeared on March 30, 2005.
  Mar 30, 2005

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