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School shootings have become way to common in the United States and that includes the one that happened recently in Richfield, Minnesota. Former Police Captain Doug Parisi joined me on WJON today.

Waite Park police is reporting at a business on the 200 block of 2nd Avenue South someone came into the business when no one was in the reception area, they went into a back room and took cash out of an employee's purse.

There are many myths about social security. James Schmitz from Laraway Financial Advisors joined me on WJON this week. He highlighted the myths associated with social security. They include the myth that it's going broke.

In the early morning hours of Wednesday February 2nd Minneapolis police officers using a no-knock search warrant entered the residence of Amir Locke. Locke, a black man -- apparently asleep and shown to be holding a gun upon awakening -- was shot and killed.

In this weeks episode of The TouchArcade Show we once again dive into the latest Apple antitrust drama. This week its the Netherlands which is requiring Apple to allow outside payments inside of dating apps, of all things. You can tell Apple is not thrilled about it.

It isn't new that ice fishermen leave trash on the ice but Glen Schmitt from Outdoor News says on Red Lake in the Blackduck area a conservation officer is reporting that someone dumped their sewage from the ice house holding tank on the ice.

Waite Park Police is reporting damage to a vehicle in the 300 block of Waite Avenue south. Alicia Mages from Tri-County Crimestoppers joined the WJON Morning News Watch. She says a window was broken out of a vehicle and all of the lights on the vehicle were spray painted black.

The COVID-19 numbers at St. Cloud Hospital are about the same this week as last week but Dr. George Morris is optimistic our local COVID numbers will decrease dramatically over the next 6 to 8 weeks. Morris says they have 74 people at St. Cloud Hospital with COVID with 22 of those in the ICU/critical care unit.

The COVID-19 numbers at St. Cloud Hospital are about the same this week as last week but Dr. George Morris is optimistic our local COVID numbers will decrease dramatically over the next 6 to 8 weeks. Morris says they have 74 people at St. Cloud Hospital with COVID with 22 of those in the ICU/critical care unit.

A grocery store, a bar, off sale liquor store and mobile home park was located on 33rd and 3rd street in St. Cloud. It opened in 1945 and It was called Sid and Cecil's Little City. Syd and Cecil O'Hara managed the place. I was joined by Steve Penick and John Decker from the Stearns History Museum and local historian Jim Grabinski on WJON.