Beltrami County and the city of Bemidji have declared a state of emergency due to severe storm damage over the weekend. The storms early Saturday had winds of more than 100 miles per hour.

And another defendant in the Feeding Our Future case admitted that he tried to bribe one of the jurors at his trial last year.

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