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Feb 2, 2025 | 
fox9.com | Joe Augustine
MINNEAPOLIS - City and court records obtained by FOX 9 are shedding more light on violence prevention programs that received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding. Lea Lakes, deputy director of the Neighborhood Safety Department, is scheduled to deliver an update on the status of violence prevention efforts in Minneapolis during a city council committee hearing Monday afternoon.
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Feb 2, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Joe Augustine
The BriefThe city has been accused of awarding violence prevention contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars without verifying how the funding was actually used. The Neighborhood Safety Department will provide another update on those programs on Monday afternoon. As part of a recent legal settlement, the city will also start auditing violence interrupter groups in February.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
fox9.com | Joe Augustine |Kelcey Carlson
Inflated drug costs creating 'Pharmacy deserts' Pharmacy benefit managers are being blamed for "pharmacy deserts" being left across Minnesota as inflating drug costs squeeze out small-town pharmacies. FOX 9's Kelcey Carlson has the full story. Prescription benefit managers have been under growing scrutiny from state and federal regulators who have accused them of creating pharmacy deserts by steering consumers to their own pharmacies and driving independent pharmacists out of business.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
fox9.com | Joe Augustine
article Marvin Haynes when he was 16 (left) and when he was released from prison (right). MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Be sure to watch "'I am Innocent': The Marvin Haynes Story" this Sunday, Dec. 15, at 9:30 p.m. on FOX 9, FOX LOCAL and YouTube. The documentary details Haynes’ arrest and exoneration through video evidence, expert testimony and interviews. Marvin Haynes timeline The arrest Marvin Haynes when he was 16 years old.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
fox9.com | Joe Augustine
article File photo of a Minneapolis police squad car. (FOX 9) MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - A Hennepin County judge ruled this week that the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) does not have to release records about certain officers who have received "coaching" because it is not considered formal discipline.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Joe Augustine
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - A Hennepin County judge ruled this week that the Minneapolis Police Department does not have to release records about certain officers who have received "coaching" because it is not considered formal discipline. The backstoryThe Minnesota Coalition for Government Information (MNCOGI) sued the city in 2021 after the department denied its request for information about officers who had received coaching, including former officer Derek Chauvin.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
fox9.com | Joe Augustine |Sean Skinner
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - How can Minnesota, the State of Hockey, lose a professional hockey team? This documentary examines all the factors that ultimately led to the North Stars relocating to Texas in 1993. How to watch The documentary "No Stars: When Minnesota Lost Pro Hockey" airs on FOX 9+ at 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 14. You can also watch it live in the player above. If you miss it, tune in at 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 15 on FOX 9.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
sports.yahoo.com | Joe Augustine
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - How can Minnesota, the State of Hockey, lose a professional hockey team? This documentary examines all the factors that ultimately led to the North Stars relocating to Texas in 1993. How to watchThe documentary "No Stars: When Minnesota Lost Pro Hockey" airs on FOX 9+ at 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 14. You can also watch it live in the player above. If you miss it, tune in at 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 15 on FOX 9.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
fox9.com | Joe Augustine
The Met: Home of the North Stars "It was like going to a cathedral." FOX 9 recently interviewed former team executives and government officials about disputes over stadium funding as part of a documentary about the North Stars leaving Minnesota. ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Now a surface parking lot, there is little to remind fans of the coliseum-like stadium that was home to the Minnesota North Stars.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
fox9.com | Joe Augustine
How the North Stars failed FOX 9 interviewed fans, media members and former team employees about the North Stars’ financial struggles as part of an upcoming documentary about the franchise leaving Minnesota. ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - The Minnesota Twins could now sell for $1.5 billion less than 25 years after they were nearly contracted out of baseball altogether. The North Stars also nearly folded in the 1980s.
