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The Minnesota Senior games kicked off in St. Cloud Thursday. Hundreds of Minnesotans over fifty will participate in more than twenty different sports.

It was a bit of a last-minute rush, but just after 10 a.m. Thursday morning White Earth Nation’s tribal dispensary in Mahnomen opened for sale of recreational marijuana.

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety on Thursday released the name of the state trooper who shot and killed a man on I-94 in Minneapolis early Monday morning.

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Body camera and dashboard video has been released showing the incident that led to the shooting death of a Black motorist in Minneapolis. The victim’s family is stunned. Will the state troopers be charged?

It is August and the weather is hot and humid. Paul Huttner shares a weather update. A St. Paul Pizzeria owner tells us how he started his business.

And a Minnesota doctor talks about using storytelling to communicate the human side of medicine.

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Let’s talk pizza. Specifically, Tommie’s Pizza. The shop's owner, Tommie Daye, opened Tommie’s Pizza on Selby Avenue near Snelling in St. Paul in October 2018.

It is the only Black-owned pizza shop in St. Paul and it specializes in New York style pizza. MPR News economics contributor Chris Farrell went to check it out and talked with MPR News Host Cathy Wurzer about what he found.

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The first week of August has been appropriately warm. MPR Chief Meteorologist Paul Huttner shared a weekly weather update with MPR News Host Cathy Wurzer.

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Every word has a history, but some of those histories are more troubled than others. An installment of the series It Happens Here: The Roots of Racial Inequity on the North Shore untangles the meaning of one word in particular.

Staci Drouillard and Leah Lemm co-host the series, which is also written and produced by Drouillard for WTIP North Shore Community Radio in Grand Marais.

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An investigation is underway into what happened in the early hours of Monday morning that led a state trooper to shoot and kill a man during a traffic stop and attempted arrest on I-94 in Minneapolis.

Ricky Cobb, a 33-year-old Black man, died of multiple gunshot wounds during a confrontation that escalated very quickly and was captured on body camera video released yesterday.

The video shows the interaction between Cobb and state troopers as they attempt to arrest Cobb for allegedly violating an order for protection. Cobb keeps asking troopers why they pulled him over and one of the troopers repeatedly asks Cobb to hand him the car keys.

About 30 seconds later, another trooper opens the passenger door and the trooper who had been speaking to Cobb opens the driver’s door. One of them shouts at Cobb to get out. Things move quickly at this point. With both doors open, Cobb speeds away, the troopers fall to the ground, and the trooper on the passenger’s side fires his handgun, hitting Cobb.

Following the release of this video there are now calls to charge the trooper who shot Cobb. Former Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner joined MPR News host Cathy Wurzer to talk about what the next steps may be.

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August first means more new laws go into effect in Minnesota. From legalizing cannabis to cracking down on catalytic converter thieves, there are a lot of new policies that kick in. Private sales and transfers of guns will be subject to a criminal background check. How will this work? MPR News host was joined by Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges.