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Aug. 10 update on COVID-19 in MN: Worries rise over isolation in long-term care
The vast majority of Minnesota’s long-term care residents have not been diagnosed with COVID-19 — yet they’re still suffering because of it, Minnesota officials said Monday as they fielded questions around the Health Department’s latest data.
Photos: Minnesota students call for end to school resource officer programs
About 200 people representing more than 20 schools took part in a student-led march in downtown St. Paul on Saturday, calling on Minnesota school districts to end contracts with local police departments.
Aug. 7 update on COVID-19 in MN: 'Fragile' gains; Sturgis worries
The state’s top public health leaders on Friday warned that hard-won gains over the disease the past few months are in danger, and that the massive motorcycle rally kicking off this weekend in Sturgis, S.D., may bring trouble back to Minnesota.
Remaining Powderhorn encampment residents told to 'transition' out
The Minneapolis park board is trying to get residents of a large homeless encampment in Powderhorn Park to move out. Even as officials cleared a camp from the park’s east side last month, they allowed one on the west side to remain. But neighbors, police and community groups say it has become a magnet for crime and is unsafe for those living there.