A new 'one-strike' policy requires deputies to check jail detainees every 30 minutes or face discipline. Since it started, fully one third of the adult detention deputies were reprimanded.
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Strong winds, hail and tornadoes are threats in addition to flooding.
The victim is 40-year-old Andrew Lee Little.
The explosion was reported at around 3 p.m.
Apparently the reports about a strained relationship are true.
The investigative documents will go public on Thursday.
The first 911 calls came in around 10:25 a.m., police say.
He's given the Wolves a list of 3 teams he'd like to go to.
It was the home of an early Stillwater entrepreneur.
He's facing a felony for attempted robbery.
Parker Barnes has been battling the PANDAS disorder for 18 months.
The Hennepin County Board will vote on a new policy on the public's use of government grounds on Tuesday. Under the policy, no one would be allowed to sleep outside the government center or tape up posters or signs.
While the policy doesn't officially go into effect until next week, the Southwest Journal reports sheriff's deputies were ordered to take down signs and personal items that were left unattended at Government Plaza.
The lawsuit claims jail staff prescribed a lethal dose of methadone for Cody Laganiere in 2010. The coroner's report found that the methadone was one of the factors that contributed to an accidental death. In the last year Olmsted County has settled three wrongful death lawsuits involving jail inmates.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak's policy director, Peter Wagenius, is running for a vacant state Senate seat and slammed stadium subsidies in a campaign statement Friday. Rybak initially opposed taxes or casinos as a stadium funding source, but has since proposed a citywide sales tax for a Vikings stadium in Minneapolis.
The school district's proposed policy is a response to accusations of harboring anti-gay sentiment. The measure would bar teachers from taking a stance on "controversial topics." The language of the policy is similar to the district's current one, which has some teachers calling the effort "redundant" and "unnecessary."
Authorities arrested 25 of Southeast Minnesota's most violent criminals. The warrants were for a number of violent offenses, including drive-by-shootings and drug sales. Nine government agencies, including the U.S. Marshall Service, helped make the arrests.
A longtime Stearns County Sheriff's deputy was sentenced Thursday to nine months in jail and fined more than $3,000 stemming from allegations by three minors in 2009. Phil Meekam pleaded guilty last month to one felony count of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and two gross misdemeanors for providing alcohol to minors.
A University of Wisconsin study reveals a great cure for stress: Mom's voice. Researchers found subjects that had verbal or face-to-face interaction drastically reduced tension levels. As for texts or email, the study says they fall short and are poor substitutes to simply picking up the phone.