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John Lauritsen
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John Lauritsen is an Emmy Award and Edward R. Murrow Regional Award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late July 2007.
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Forty-two-year-old Abdikerm Eidleh appeared in federal court in St. Paul on Friday, just weeks after he was arrested in Mogadishu.
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John Lauritsen
Reporter
John Lauritsen is an Emmy Award and Edward R. Murrow Regional Award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late July 2007.
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Somalia hands over its citizen to Kash Patel-led FBI team to face charges in $250 million COVID child-feeding fraud case

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