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State files for maximum sentence in police stand-off case

On February 7th, prosecutors filed documents to seek an aggravated sentence for Joseph Rongstad, of Watson, after charges of two counts of felony threats of violence and a count of ineligible possession of ammunition from an incident that occurred at Rongstad’s home on January 11th of this year.The incident began on January 10th as Rongstad began posting multiple threatening messages to a Facebook business account owned by him.

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WRAP hosts informational meeting for area agency representatives

Women’s Rural Advocacy Program (WRAP), established in 1994 received its 501c3 designation in 1997 to serve victims of domestic violence who live in and around Lincoln, Lyon, Redwood and Yellow Medicine County.Over the last few years, the organization has also added the designation of human trafficking and exploitation, and most recently, sexual assault.

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