Parties identified in head on collision that killed two near Britt
BRITT— The parties involved in a two-vehicle crash in Britt Thursday that claimed the lives of two men have been identified. According to a news release from the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Department Friday, the drivers were Frank Bertram Ratliff, 76, of Angora, and Steven Craig Shoden, 69, of Virginia. At 8:51 a.m. on October 24, the St. Louis County Dispatch Center received a report of a two-vehicle crash in the 9100 block of Biss Road in Unorganized Township 60R18, in the Britt area. According to the Sheriff’s Department, a witness reported that the driver of the first vehicle, Ratliff,…