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| | Oct. 29, 2021 A federal judge in St. Paul is prohibiting police from threatening to arrest or physically harm journalists who are covering civil unrest.
Several reporters sued law enforcement after they were injured by projectiles during riots and protests in 2020 and earlier this year.
Judge Wilhelmina Wright also ruled Thursday that reporters are not required to comply with dispersal orders such as those given during the unrest that followed the police killings of George Floyd and Daunte Wright.
The order specifies that the Minnesota State Patrol and other law enforcement agencies may not spray journalists with chemical irritants or seize their equipment.
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| Northern lights this weekend? Yes, maybe | | A strong geomagnetic storm will deliver the basic ingredients to produce aurora borealis sightings across Minnesota Saturday and Sunday. But don’t grab your camera just yet. | |
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| Unprecedented: October tornado in the Boundary Waters | | The Duluth National Weather Service office confirms a tornado tore through the BWCA in Cook County and crossed the Canadian border on Oct. 10. The twister flattened huge trees and tore through several well-traveled lakes from just north of the Gunflint Trail into Canada. | |
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| International Falls votes to no longer dress up its famous Smokey Bear statue | | The International Falls City Council voted unanimously last week to prohibit dressing the 26-foot-tall Smokey Bear statue that stands tall over the city. For decades locals have dressed the statue in seasonal attire. But moving forward, Smokey will only wear his traditional blue jeans, belt, buckle and hat, with shovel in hand. | |
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| Hunters want more 'urgency' in state's CWD response | | It's been nearly 20 years since the first case of chronic wasting disease was identified in a farm-raised elk in Minnesota. The disease that afflicts species in the deer family is getting more attention this year after it was found in a herd of captive white-tailed deer near Bemidji and is prompting calls for more aggressive action. | |
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