RIVER FALLS -- The University of Wisconsin-River Falls has confirmed the death of one of its students, whose body was found in a local river after leaving a bar.
River Falls Chancellor Dean Van Galen identified the student as 20-year-old Robert Steven Sontag, of Shafer, Minnesota.
Police say the student was last seen about 2 a.m. Friday when he and a friend were walking home from a bar and they separated. Sontag failed to show up for class Friday and for work during the weekend.
KSTP-TV reports city administrator Scot Simpson says Sontag's body was recovered from the Kinnickinnic River Monday afternoon.