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Activists feel hoodwinked as police groups dictate model policy for school cops
Activists opposed to allowing school police to hold students facedown on the ground say their concerns are being ignored by regulators drafting a model policy that will govern how police can restrain students in Minnesota schools.
DNR sets auctions to liquidate confiscated outdoor equipment
ST PAUL, Minn. — One person's loss is another's gain when the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) holds a pair of online auctions to liquidate hunting, fishing and trapping equipment confiscated after serious fish and game violations. The auctions are scheduled for Aug. 26 and Oct. 7 online...
Hail Recorded in Our Area
Severe storms that moved across Minnesota Wednesday afternoon and evening were packing strong winds and produced large hail. The National Weather Service reported five-inch hail in Chokio in Stevens County and four-inch hail at Graceville in Big Stone County. Residents reported two-inch hail at Northfield and one-point-75 inches in Zumbro Falls in southeastern Minnesota.
Regulation Changes Coming to Lake Mille Lacs
Minnesota DNR officials met with the Mille Lacs Advisory committee this week. Glen Schmitt from Outdoor News joined me on WJON. He says big regulation changes are expected to happen. Schmitt says starting on August 16 anglers will be able to keep two walleyes on Mille Lacs from 18 to 20 inches. The angling pressure was about 1/3 of what the DNR had projected which means only 26% of the allowable harvest was taken this year and that was catch and release mortality because catch and release was the only thing allowed.
Minnesota Supreme Court rules person being threatened cannot brandish weapon if ‘reasonably possible to retreat’
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that when a person is being threatened or attacked, he or she must retreat if “reasonably possible” rather than brandish a “dangerous weapon.” In June 2021, Earley Romero Blevins pulled out a machete after a man with a knife allegedly threatened him on a rail platform in Minnesota. Blevins was […]
‘Build the plane while we’re flying it’: Cannabis regulators ready for next phase of legalization
A year after it became legal for adults 21 and up to use, possess and grow their own cannabis in Minnesota, state regulators are busy preparing for the full build-out of the marijuana marketplace. The Office of Cannabis Management opened the application process last week for social equity applicants to receive state licenses to grow, […] The post ‘Build the plane while we’re flying it’: Cannabis regulators ready for next phase of legalization appeared first on Albert Lea Tribune.
MN Trooper Londregan cleared after internal affairs review, could return to work soon
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan is "exonerated" following a state Department of Public Safety internal affairs review of the Ricky Cobb II fatal shooting, Londregan's defense attorney Chris Madel told FOX 9's Paul Blume. A finding that would seemingly clear the way for the trooper’s return to patrol duties.
Minnesota Supreme Court Overturns Aiding and Abetting Murder Conviction of St. Cloud Man
(KNSI) — A St. Cloud man convicted of aiding and abetting first degree murder has had his conviction overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court. Prosecutors in Clay County say 32-year-old Abdi Mohamed Abdi of Fargo was found shot to death in a Moorhead gas station parking lot on September 10th, 2021. Prosecutors filed aiding and abetting charges against Ibrahim Abdiaziz Isaac on October 5th after they said he drove alleged triggerman Idris Haji-Mohamed and one other man from St. Cloud to Fargo the day of the shooting. Police say they fled the area and returned to St. Cloud, where Isaac was arrested nine days later.
Severe storms rock Plains, Midwest with 5-inch hail and 95-mph winds
Thunderstorms raced across the Plains and Midwest Wednesday, knocking out power to a quarter of a million people, many in the Omaha area. Severe thunderstorms raced across the Plains and the Midwest on Wednesday, dropping hail as large as 5 inches in diameter in Minnesota, with a 4-inch-diameter stone reported in Prairie View, Kansas. The Minnesota hailstone may have been the largest reported in the state in 38 years. Winds gusted over 90 mph at several locations in Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota.
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