For those who work at the Capitol, security is front of mind following the assassinations of Melissa and Mark Hortman this summer. On Monday, the Advisory Committee on Capitol Security learned that the Minnesota Capitol is “an outlier among state houses for its relatively lax security,” according to findings presented by the National Conference of State Legislatures, Minnesota Reformer reports.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that “the moment a driver needs to stop for a school bus is when the stop-signal arm is fully extended, not when it is in the process of being extended.” The decision came after a Baxter, Minn., woman fought her 2024 charge related to failing to stop for a school bus, the Minnesota Star Tribune reports. The woman’s charge is now overturned because she drove

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