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Update: Fatal Stearns Co Crash

The State Patrol has released the names of a driver and her passenger that died in a fatal crash in Stearns County that happened in Albany Township Saturday afternoon.

Forty-two-year-old Sarah Jones and 15-year-old Kale Olson, both of Minneapolis, died at the scene.

The Patrol says Jones was driving a car that rear-ended an International straight truck on I-94 just after 2:30pm.

The driver of the truck was not injured.