ST. PAUL, Minn. – A new form of medical marijuana has been approved for Minnesota residents. Starting Tuesday, everyone who is registered for the medical marijuana can apply to get it in its purest form, dried flower. According to the Minnesota Department of Health, more than 30,000 people in the state are in the medical marijuana program. So far, only…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – There’s fewer people getting tested for Covid-19 at the former Thomas Edison Elementary School in Moorhead. Thankfully, the amount of people testing positive is declining. The organization’s Public Health Administrator briefed the Dilworth City Council on everything coronavirus in the county. More than 105,000 coronavirus tests have been taken at the former Edison Elementary, but the…
DILWORTH, Minn. (KVRR) – We have a follow-up to our story from December on the Twitter account of Dilworth Police Chief Ty Sharpe. Dilworth Vice Mayor Julie Nash says tweets sent from the @LordTySharpe Twitter account were reviewed by the city. She says the tweets were sent by Sharpe’s personal account while he was off-duty and they do not violate…
FARGO (KVRR) – An advocacy group that opposes “government overreach” is planning a series of truck convoys that will travel across the country to Washington, DC. The American Truckers Freedom Fund is urging truck drivers across the nation to join one of several convoys heading to the nation’s capital in March. According to the organization’s website, there are plans for…
Rep. Jim HagedornMINNEAPOLIS – U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a Republican from southern Minnesota who followed his father’s footsteps into Congress, has died after a battle with kidney cancer. He was 59. Hagedorn’s wife, Jennifer Carnahan said in a Facebook post Friday that Hagedorn “passed away peacefully last night.” Hagedorn was diagnosed with stage IV kidney cancer in February 2019, shortly…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Schools and bus companies across Minnesota have been given $3.5 million in grant money to outfit school buses with stop-arm cameras. The Minnesota Legislature has awarded the grants to 32 schools and bus companies to purchase and install the cameras and buy supporting software programs. According to the state Department of Transportation, Minnesota was seeing more…
Kim Potter MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota prosecutors have apparently backed away from their pursuit of a longer-than-usual sentence for the suburban Minneapolis police officer who confused her handgun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright. Kim Potter is scheduled to be sentenced Friday following her December conviction of first-degree manslaughter. In a court filing this week, prosecutors said a sentence…
WASHINGTON (KVRR) – Minnesota companies, agriculture and trade groups speak with Senator Amy Klobuchar about their issues with importing and exporting. Klobuchar has introduced the Ocean Shipping Reform Act to make it more difficult for carriers to turn away goods at ports ready to ship them overseas. The president of the Minnesota Corn Growers Association is concerned seeds and seed…
EDEN VALLEY, Minn. (KVRR) — A man is dead after a shootout with officers early Saturday in central Minnesota near St. Cloud. Eden Valley police tried to stop 34-year-old Stephen Poissant of Brainerd for a traffic offense around 2 a.m. He fled before hitting the ditch. Minnesota BCA says Poissant got out of his vehicle and exchanged gunfire with deputies…
MINNESOTA (KVRR) – Minnesota frontline workers and Democrats call for immediate action in the legislature to deliver a $1 billion package giving them a pandemic bonus. The plan gives 667,000 health care, nursing home, maintenance, child care, and education workers $1,500 bonuses. To qualify, someone must have worked at least 120 hours between March 15th, 2020, and June 30th of…
