Name: KARE 11 Investigates: Open-Air drug market in St. Paul
Uploaded: 11/22/2019 4:18:50 AM
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Description: While St. Paul wrestles with violence not seen in decades, a KARE 11 investigation finds downtown streets have become an open-air drug market.

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Feds give Minnesota $2 million for untested rape kits

The money will go toward testing some of the 3,500 untested kits discovered in 2015

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KARE 11 Investigates: Open-Air drug market in St. Paul

While St. Paul wrestles with violence not seen in decades, a KARE 11 investigation finds downtown streets have become an open-air drug market.

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KARE 11 Investigates: International puppy scam has Minnesota cell

Thousands of dog buyers nationwide are swindled every year. KARE 11 investigates how thieves are using a small Minnesota town as part of an international scam.

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KARE 11 Investigates: Mpls. Police discover hundreds more untested rape kits

Minneapolis officials announce there are hundreds more untested sexual assault kits than previously disclosed. In 2015 the city said it had counted just 194.

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KARE 11 Investigates: Lack of trained sexual assault nurses has dire consequences for victims

For one Minnesota woman, a nearly six-hour wait likely meant a loss of crucial evidence in a rape case that was never charged.

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KARE 11 Investigates: Bars overserving their customers, with impunity

Each year dozens of Minnesotans are killed by drunk drivers, but the bars and restaurants that served the liquor are rarely held criminally responsible.

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KARE 11 Investigates: VA refunds $400 million secretly withheld from vets

The Department of Veterans Affairs has repaid more than $400 million in home loan refunds to disabled veterans after a scandal exposed by a KARE 11 investigation.

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KARE 11 Investigates: Sexual assault victims struggle to get answers

Nationwide there’s movement to empower rape victims by providing more answers about their cases. But KARE 11 discovers in Minnesota that’s easier said than done.

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State expands drivers road test hours to reduce wait times

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says more than 3,000 weekend appointments will be added from Nov. 2 through the end of the year.

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Hearings promised on driving test wait times, preferential reservations

Sen. Scott Newman promises the Senate Transportation Committee will "exercise its oversight responsibility to figure out how this favorable treatment happened."

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KARE 11 Investigates: Suspected serial rapists ID’d by newly tested rape kits

New DNA tests on previously unchecked rape kits have put rapists behind bars – but thousands of other rape kits in Minnesota remain untested.

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KARE 11 Investigates: State officials wanted to scrap unfair driving test system a year ago

KARE 11 obtained internal records showing state officials dragged their feet getting rid of a system that lets some driving schools sell driving test appointments.

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KARE 11 Investigates: Identity theft nightmare

A Minnesota woman says thieves even used her stolen information to trick companies that claim to offer identity theft protection.

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KARE 11 Investigates: Skip the line? Lawmaker questions ‘unfair’ driving test system

We discovered a hidden system of “standing appointments” given to certain driving schools, where students can pay more to be driven to the test and jump the line.

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KARE 11 Investigates: Perverse incentives, medical debt, and a pattern of denial

Veterans were wrongly charged millions of dollars because VA emphasized quantity over quality.

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KARE 11 Investigates: Court finds VA 'patently absurd' & rules agency must pay for veterans' ER care

"All of this is unacceptable," writes an appeals court in a decision that may put up to $6.5 billion back in veterans’ pockets.

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