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Minnesota Updates COVID-19 Testing Guidance for Unvaccinated Adults, Kids This Summer
(KNSI) - The Minnesota Department of Health is updating its COVID-19 testing guidance as more Minnesotans get vaccinated and start to resume travel and other activities this summer. "Thanks to the nea...
Dene Dryden Jun 30, 2021 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News

Public Safety Bill Makes Doxing a Police Officer a Crime
(KNSI) - Lawmakers passed the Public Safety and Judiciary Bill Wednesday, one of the last bills needed to put the final touches on the $52 billion budget that needs to be passed today to avoid a parti...
Jennifer Lewerenz Jun 30, 2021 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News

Congressman Holding Town Hall Meeting
(KNSI) - Sixth District Congressman Tom Emmer is holding an over-the-phone town hall meeting on getting Minnesotans back to work. The town hall is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 30. To join, call 855-96...
Jake Judd Jun 30, 2021 Jake Judd (KNSI News)

Sheriff Seeking Information on Park Damage
(KNSI) - The Stearns County Sheriff's Office is asking for help finding the person who drove through a county park, causing damage to some trees. The sheriff's office says the damage was discovered in...
Jennifer Lewerenz Jun 30, 2021 Stearns County Sheriff Twitter

Search for Missing Man Ends After His Body Was Found in a Car Tuesday
(KNSI) - The search for a missing Crown College graduate has come to a sad end. Police were called to a single vehicle crash near the area of Highway 101 and Highway 13 in Savage Tuesday afternoon. Th...
Jennifer Lewerenz Jun 30, 2021 Find Keegan Oyugi Facebook

Minnesota Lawmakers Pass Police Accountability Bill
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Senate approved a modest set of police accountability measures early Wednesday that's part of a broader public safety budget bill, as the state's divided Legislature p...
Associated Press Jun 30, 2021 AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File

State Peacetime Emergency to End July 1st
(KNSI) - The House and Senate have voted to end the state's peacetime emergency on July 1st. An 11th hour deal struck late Tuesday night with the United States Department of Agriculture will protect m...
Jennifer Lewerenz Jun 30, 2021 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News

St. Cloud Woman Connected to Murder Case Charged With Exposing Toddler To Drugs
(KNSI) - A St. Cloud woman charged in connection to a murder in St. Cloud is accused of exposing her toddler to drugs. Thirty-Three-year-old Angela Renee Jones has been charged with felony drug exposu...
Jake Judd Jun 29, 2021 Stearns County Jail

University of Minnesota Approves Tuition Increase
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The University of Minnesota Board of Regents on Tuesday agreed to raise tuition for the first time in two years, over objections from some students who believe it's wrong to charge ...
Associated Press Jun 29, 2021 AlexiusHoratius on Wikimedia Commons

Police Accountability, Public Safety Budget on the Table for Minnesota Legislature Tuesday
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota House was preparing to debate police accountability as part of a broader public safety budget bill that the state's divided Legislature must enact before late Wedn...
Associated Press Jun 29, 2021 Jennifer Lewerenz/KNSI News