Category: Crime

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    Arctic Cat owner to close St. Cloud, Thief River Falls plants

    St. Cloud Live reports Arctic Cat will suspend operations in St. Cloud and Thief River Falls “due to ongoing business conditions and a ‘softness’ in consumer end-market and design, according to Brandon Haddock, spokesperson for Arctic Cat’s parent company, Textron.” Bring Me the News reports Boludo in Minneapolis has been fined over $105,000 by the U.S.…

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  • South Korean martial law soldiers try to enter the National Assembly compound in Seoul, South Korea, on December 4, 2024.

    Authoritarians seek to chip away at freedoms across the globe

    In November, the world’s most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. A month later, South Koreans swarmed their legislature to block their president’s attempt to impose martial law. The contrast sums up a year that tested democracy on all sides. Incumbent parties and leaders were battered in…

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    MinnPost is embarking on a major expansion in 2025

    When MinnPost was founded in 2007, we had a lot of doubters. No print edition? No paywall? You ask readers for donations to make it all possible? At the time, we were among a small handful of local, startup nonprofit news outlets in the country. Now, a little over 17 years later, the nonprofit journalism…

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  • This year about 70% of consumers in the U.S. said they were likely to shop for holiday gifts through online-only retailers, according to an October Statista study.

    With holiday scams common online, learn how to protect yourself

    With the holiday season in full swing, online gift shopping is the convenient and popular choice for many consumers in today’s digital age.  Those shoppers should beware: A 2023 study by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) showed scams were on the rise, and Minnesota ranked 18th among states last year…

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  • Landmark report calls for national effort to curb groundwater depletion

    Landmark report calls for national effort to curb groundwater depletion

    Even as groundwater levels have rapidly declined in farming regions from California’s Central Valley to the High Plains, the federal government has mostly taken a hands-off approach to the chronic depletion of the nation’s aquifers. But in a new report for the White House, scientists say the country is facing serious and unprecedented groundwater challenges…

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  • Victims of 2023 Rolling Hills Estates landslide blame drainage system

    Victims of 2023 Rolling Hills Estates landslide blame drainage system

    In 1976, as the city of Rolling Hills Estates considered plans for a new development on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, officials debated how water should drain through a nearby canyon. The development would cause increased runoff, city officials noted at the time, which would ideally be maintained by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District.…

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  • California board backs rules meant to protect workers from silicosis

    California board backs rules meant to protect workers from silicosis

    California regulators voted Thursday to impose a permanent set of workplace rules aimed at protecting countertop cutters from silicosis, an incurable disease that has been killing young workers. The unanimous vote by the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board extends and expands on workplace safety rules approved a year ago on an emergency basis,…

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  • How should parents answer questions about Santa? Experts weigh in

    How should parents answer questions about Santa? Experts weigh in

    First, Santa spoiler alert! And, parents, you what we mean. When Melissa Marion’s 8-year-old son, Johnny, came home from school saying that a classmate had said Santa wasn’t real, she knew just how she wanted to approach it. “I was like, ‘You know, people believe what they want to believe.’” Marion said, choosing her words…

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  • Postal Service worker accused of stealing cash, coins, checks

    Postal Service worker accused of stealing cash, coins, checks

    A U.S. Postal Service worker was arrested Thursday on suspicion of swiping more than 20 checks from the mail and depositing $281,000 into various bank accounts under her name, authorities said. Joivian Tjuana Hayes, 36, of Compton, was charged with one count of bank fraud and faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in federal…

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  • Battle over luxury Verdugo Mountains development spills into court

    Battle over luxury Verdugo Mountains development spills into court

    The latest chapter in the saga of a 300-acre development in the Verdugo Mountains revolves around surveillance cameras and native bumblebees. The developer is suing protesters for trespassing onto the property in attempts to gather evidence for why the land should be preserved. Nevada-based developer Whitebird Inc. has grandiose visions for the luxury complex known…

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