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Ex-boyfriend of murdered Minnesota mom Madeline Kingsbury sentenced to life in prison
The ex-boyfriend of Madeline Kingsbury, a 26-year-old mother who went missing in 2023 and was found dead after a 69-day search, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday.
Adam Fravel, 30, was sentenced by District Judge Nancy Buytendorp in Winona, Minnesota, after he was convicted of premeditated first-degree murder about 136 miles away in Mankato due to pretrial publicity, The Associated Press reported.
“The sentence reflects the severity of your actions and serves as a clear statement that such violence will not be tolerated in this community,” Buytendorp said, adding that she hopes the case will “inspire collective action to prevent future tragedies of this nature.”
Fravel, who did not testify in his defense at trial, told the judge during sentencing that he is innocent and “never caused harm to Maddie.”
MADELINE KINGSBURY’S EX IN CUSTODY AFTER ‘COVERED AND CONCEALED’ REMAINS IDENTIFIED
Adam Fravel, who was found guilty in the 2023 murder of Madeline Kingsbury, his ex-girlfriend and with whom he shared two children, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Tuesday in Minnesota. (Saskia Hatvany/Winona Daily News via AP, Pool)
Kingsbury, who shared two young children with Fravel, went missing in March 2023 after dropping their kids off at daycare. Her disappearance gained national attention and prompted a massive search that lasted more than two months.
Her body was found by a deputy in June 2023 in a culvert on a dead-end road near a property owned by Fravel’s parents. She was wrapped inside a gray fitted sheet closed with duct tape. Fravel was arrested days after the discovery.
Prosecutors said Kingsbury was strangled with a towel and a medical examiner determined her cause of death to likely be asphyxiation.
Minnesota mom Madeline Kingsbury, 26, was last seen dropping her children off at daycare around 8 a.m. on March 31, 2023. (Madeline Kingsbury/Facebook)
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“The crimes committed by Mr. Fravel shook the foundations of our community, shedding a very bright light on the extremes of domestic violence, and revealing the evil acts of a man who had no care as to how his actions would affect his children for their lifetimes,” Winona County Attorney Karin Sonneman told the court, according to The AP.
Witnesses, who testified to seeing bruises on Kingsbury’s neck, also said that she was planning to leave Fravel for another man due to “alleged abusive behavior and inadequate financial contributions,” the outlet said.
Fravel’s attorney Zach Bauer told the judge they intend to appeal the sentence, arguing that the case focused on “tunnel vision, revisionist history and secret truths.”
Adam Fravel, 30, was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend Madeline Kingsbury, whose remains were located in June 2023 after a 69-day search. (Saskia Hatvany/Winona Daily News via AP, Pool)
The two children shared by Fravel and Kingsbury now live with her parents, who were in the courtroom during sentencing.
Kingsbury’s mother, Catherine, had the following statement read to the court on her behalf.
“I will never understand a father who could and did do this to his children. He took away a mother’s love, the type of love that only Maddie could give them. The knowledge of this horror will haunt me forever. All that Adam had to do was walk away and let Maddie go. He chose not to do that. He chose evil over good.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Three years after a deal with Fairview was called off, South Dakota-based Sanford Health is getting into the Twin Cities market with a new merger.
On Friday, the health system announced that it will combine with North Memorial Health.
Fairview, Sanford call off planned merger
Under the merger, Sanford says the organization will invest $600 million to strengthen the Robbinsdale hospital and double the Maple Grove hospital’s size.
Sanford is the largest rural nonprofit health system in the country, with 58 hospitals and roughly 56,000 employees across the Dakotas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Wyoming and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. North Memorial operates two hospitals in Robbinsdale and Maple Grove, along with several other clinics, employing more than 6,500 people.
If completed, the health systems plan to keep some local leadership in place, including North Memorial CEO Trevor Sawallish, and two North Memorial board members will serve on the combined system’s board. However, the overall company will be led by Sanford CEO Bill Gassen.
The companies say they expect the merger to close later this year, as long as regulatory processes don’t cause delays.
Sanford’s previous attempt to merge with Fairview was called off in 2023, eight months after initially announcing the planned merger. Many Minnesotans raised concerns about that transaction, including Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, although some of that was due to the University of Minnesota’s partnership with Fairview and the possibility of an out-of-state company running the state’s flagship medical school.
As with most mergers, concerns are still likely to arise about possible cutbacks and the impact on the state’s healthcare quality. However, the deal seems more likely to be completed than Sanford’s past attempts.
Reaction
SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa, who represents over 1,000 workers at North Memorial, called the news “worrisome.”
“At a time when healthcare costs are skyrocketing for Minnesota families and frontline healthcare workers are getting squeezed by short staffing levels, this latest attempt at consolidation brings many concerns. It is especially concerning because previous merger attempts by Sanford Health to come into Minnesota have failed due to their values and corporate behavior,” the union said.
SEIU also called on Ellison “to use all of his office’s powers within the law to provide oversight into this proposed merger and ensure the interests of Minnesota’s workers and patients are protected.”
Ellison’s office is asking the public to submit information through an online Community Input Form.
“As we have done and are currently doing with other healthcare transactions, we are conducting a thorough review of this potential acquisition to ensure it complies with the law and is in the public interest,” Ellison daid. “Proposed health care consolidation requires careful examination. As long as I am Attorney General, I will use the full range of regulatory tools to protect Minnesotans’ access to quality, affordable healthcare.”
The Minnesota Nurses Association released a statement saying it is “deeply concerned” by the merger announcement, warning it “could have far-reaching consequences for patients, healthcare workers, and the communities they serve.”
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It isn’t over until it’s over. That’s the case for both the UCLA Bruins football program recruiting and for quarterback Brady Edmunds. Edmunds is currently committed to head to Ohio State but he took a visit from UCLA offensive coordinator Dean Kennedy earlier this week.
Kennedy met Edmunds on Thursday despite the fact that the quarterback has been committed to the Buckeyes since December of 2024 but could the UCLA Bruins be making a run at flipping the quarterback?
Edmunds has only had an official visit with Ohio State but could UCLA heave a heat check on the 6’5” quarterback? New UCLA head coach Bob Chesney is off to an unbelievable start to his recruiting with the Bruins and flipping a recruit of Edmunds’ caliber would be his most impressive move yet.
247 Sports has Edmunds as the No. 16 quarterback in the class, which would give UCLA a clear predecessor for Nico Iamaleava whenever the Bruins current starting quarterback decides to head to the professional level.
It’d be a full circle moment for the Bruins, as Edmunds was originally recruited to Ohio State by former UCLA head coach Chip Kelly, who bailed on UCLA to go run the Buckeyes offense. Ohio State is a great spot for a developing quarterback, as the Buckeyes produce tons of NFL talent, especially at the wide receiver position, which would help Edmunds put up some gaudy numbers in Columbus.
Chesney and the Bruins have geography on their side, Edmunds attends Huntington Beach High School in Southern California, which could potentially become a factor if Edmunds views UCLA as a program on the rise that’d be much closer to his friends and family than out in Ohio.
Time will tell if Kennedy’s visit will make a difference but UCLA’s recruiting has made waves in the first offseason under Chesney and the new regime.
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