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Fargo-Moorhead officials hope to curb violence with threat assessment team
Law enforcement agencies in Fargo-Moorhead are collaborating with each other, the courts and community agencies to form a threat assessment team. They hope to reduce violence by identifying people who might be a threat to public safety.
Legislation would create temporary licenses for cannabis businesses in Minnesota
Minnesota’s Office of Cannabis Management is proposing changes to the state’s marijuana law, including one that would allow the issuance of a set number of temporary licenses.
Vintage football cards stolen in Florida burglary found in Twin Cities
An investigator with the Inver Grove Heights Police Department recovered two dozen rare football cards that are part of a collection stolen from a Florida man during a January burglary of his Winter Park house.
Legislative proposal would transfer a Minnesota state forest to the White Earth Nation
State Sen. Mary Kunesh, DFL-New Brighton, and Rep. Aisha Gomez, DFL-Minneapolis, introduced a bill in February that proposes transferring state-owned land within the 160,000-acre White Earth State Forest to the tribe by 2029.