ALBERT LEA (AP) — Police were investigating the theft of a Jefferson Lines passenger bus from the Albert Lea depot sometime early Friday.

The bus was driven to a gas station at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, where it was left for another driver to take to Blue Earth at 7:30 a.m. Friday.

However, when the driver arrived to pick it up, the bus was gone. Police later found it in Dodge County, northeast of where it was last seen. It was undamaged, but abandoned.

Police had no immediate leads on who might have taken the bus.

Authorities get break in shooting

MANKATO (AP) &045; Authorities said they got a break in a mysterious shooting southwest of Mankato.

A Minneapolis man, who prosecutors say is the cousin of victim Leonard Cook, was in jail Friday after police acted on a tip. After two days with little progress, police searched a home in Lake Crystal that they now believe was the site of the shooting.

DeAngelas Cook, 26, was charged with felony possession of a firearm. Prosecutors said he owns the gun used in the shooting and has three prior drug convictions.