North Star Stories

From races big and small, Minnesota election results roll in.
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Executive Producer: Tracie Wells Collier

Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image: Minnesota smashed its record of early voting in a midterm election [Image credit: Xan Holston] 

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Today is election day! Plus, Minnesota’s Truth Council releases a preliminary report, and invasive spiny fleas infect a BWCA lake
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Executive Producer: Tracie Wells Collier

Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  Zooplankton, Cladoceran, water flea, Bythotrephes. July 2010. [Image credit: Photo by NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory is licensed under CC BY 4.0 via wikimedia commons]
Audio credit: wtip.org
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Panic disrupts a community market at Union Depot, Appleton’s prison sale raises questions over a massive price jump, and a guide to getting your vote counted.
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Executive Producer: Tracie Wells Collier

Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  Saint Paul Union Depot in Saint Paul, Minnesota. [Image credit: Photo by Michael Barera is licensed under CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons] 

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A measles warning across Minnesota, a more inclusive place to play in Moorhead, and one last chance for Mankato’s jack-o’-lanterns to make a smashing impression.
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Executive Producer: Tracie Wells Collier

Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image: Don’t let your jack-o-lanterns rot on the steps — compost them at Mankato’s first ever pumpkin smash. [Image credit: Xan Holston]
Audio credit: Splat.wav by Audionautics -- https://freesound.org/s/133968/ -- License: Attribution 3.0; Slatt 3.wav by SvennSound -- https://freesound.org/s/677311/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 

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Unas escuelas se ven obligadas a recortar programas y puestos docentes. Y los cazadores de osos registran una de las mayores capturas en la historia del estado.
Schools are forced to cut programs and teaching positions. And bear hunters record one of the largest harvests in the state's history.

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Productor/Producer: Victor Palomino
Voiceover/Voiceover: Natalia Toledo y Rito Ayala
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Pie de foto: letrero de Vote aquí,  en Woodbury Polling Place [Crédito fotográfico: Jamad Jama]
Image: Vote here poster at the Woodbury Polling Place. [Image Credit: Jamad Jama]
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This week, we explore how scams work, how to recognize the warning signs, and what protections are available. We also look at how families can help safeguard the financial security of loved ones who may be especially vulnerable to fraud. 

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Executive Producer: Victor Palomino

Producers: Jules Yaeger

Anchor: Victor Palomino, Britt Aamodt

Reader scripting: Victor Palomino, Xan Holston

Fact checking: Joel Glaser, Tracie Collier

Editorial support: Emily Krumberger

Production Coordinator: Britt Aamodt

Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood

Image: According to the state attorney general's office, people living in the United States received approximately 29.6 billion scam robocalls and text messages last year. [Image credit: Adobe Stock]

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Early midterm voting surges toward the state record, two men who said they’d expose voter fraud now faces felony charges, and don’t forget to set your clocks back Sunday.
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Executive Producer: Tracie Wells Collier

Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  Don’t forget to set your clocks back for daylight saving time this Sunday. [Image credit: Xan Holston]
Audio credit: freesound.org 

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After nine months, Alex Pretti’s parents speak out, Hermantown data center protesters break up a city council meeting, and luchadores take to the ring for Dia De Los Muertos.
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Executive Producer: Tracie Wells Collier

Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  Protesters shut down the Hermantown City Council meeting Moday. [Image credit: John Ramos, The Duluth Monitor]
Audio credit: freesound.org; cspan.org; The Duluth Monitor 

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Story description: Special education cuts could squeeze every Minnesota classroom, cattle thieves take a Bemidji farmer’s entire herd, and bats in Bloomington for Halloween.
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Executive Producer: Tracie Wells Collier

Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  A big brown bat [Image credit: Minnesota DNR]
Audio credit: freesound.org 

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Streamlined veterans’ services in Scott County, private rooms for people experiencing homelessness in St. Cloud, and wolf populations are down, but far from out.
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Executive Producer: Tracie Wells Collier

Producer: Xan Holston

Reader scripting: Tracie Wells Collier, Xan Holston 

Image:  Grey wolf diorama at the Bell Museum [Image photo credit: Xan Holston]
Audio credit: National Park Service
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