A growing number of Minnesota veterans who face trouble with the law are getting a fresh start, one year after the state passed a new law aimed at restorative justice.
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Minnesota hospitals are caring for nearly twice as many COVID-19 patients as they did at the end of February following an increase in new coronavirus infections.
As of Sunday, 448 people were in Minnesota s hospitals with COVID-19 complications, compared with 232 on Feb. 28, according to data released by state health officials.
While still below the crisis levels of last fall, hospitals this time around are mostly treating COVID-19 patients who are younger than 65 now that 82.5% of the state s elderly have been vaccinated.
Some evidence suggests that highly infectious and possibly more serious COVID-19 variants are also responsible, sickening those at younger ages who would have otherwise not needed medical care.
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Minnesota is home to over 325,000 veterans, many of whom don t receive the help they need after returning home. (Beth Dalbey/Patch)
March 30, 2021
On a September morning in 2015, Tony Miller, a former paratrooper who served multiple tours in Iraq, was getting ready for school. He walked down the street to the gas station, grabbed a coffee and headed back to his house. Then Miller noticed some cars he didn t recognize and heard someone call his name.
Subscribe And I looked to my right and there was a person boom right there with a gun to my head, and then a bunch of dudes jumped on top of me.