NAMES RELEASED IN FATAL STEELE COUNTY CRASH

The state patrol has released the names of those involved in a fatal crash in Steele County Wednesday evening.  Authorities were called shortly before 8 pm to northbound I-35 near Owatonna where a Chevy Impala and a Ram 1500 collided.  The driver of the Impala 40-year-old Jennifer Ann Parsons of Owatonna was killed in the crash.  The driver of the Ram 33-year-old Bradley Allen Wear of Ellendale wasn’t hurt.  Both drivers wore their seatbelts.  Owatonna Fire and the Steele County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene.