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KARE Midday News to Know: Friday, April 20

These are some stories we're covering this midday.
Fugitive and accused murderer Lois Riess was captured in South Padre, Texas Thursday following a nationwide manhunt.

Here are a few stories we're following this midday.

MN fugitive captured after nationwide manhunt

Surveillance video from a Fort Myers bar captures accused killer Lois Riess smiling and laughing with a woman police say is one of  her victims. 

Accused murderer and Minnesota fugitive Lois Riess is in a Texas jail after being captured Thursday night on South Padre Island. Riess was in a restaurant when someone recognized her and called authorities. Texas authorities are waiting for investigators from Minnesota and Florida to arrive before she is questioned.

The 56-year-old Riess is charged with killing a Florida woman to steal her car and identity, and is suspected of murdering her husband in Blooming Prairie, Minn. last month.

Wells Fargo fined $1 billion by regulators to settle auto-loan, mortgage abuses

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A flag waves outside of a Wells Fargo bank branch October 3, 2008 in San Francisco, California.

Banking giant Wells Fargo will to pay a record $1 billion fine to federal regulators Friday over mortgage and auto-loan violations.

The settlement comes after regulators ruled that the bank harmed customers by administering a mandatory insurance program tied to its auto loans, and in the way it charged certain borrowers for mortgage interest-rate lock extensions.

Target scraps tall rain boots from Hunter collaboration

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The Hunter collaboration with Target launched April 14. 

If you've been waiting to score women's tall Hunter brand rain boots through the latest Target collaboration, we've got bad news. The Minnesota-based retailer says a previous delay on the fashion rain boots has now turned into a complete cancelation of the item.

Disappointed customers are taking Target to task on social media.

Teen missing since 2016 appears in Facebook Live with sheriff, alive and well

A missing Georgia teen has been found safe and sound, 2 years after he disappeared. 

A teen missing from his Georgia community for two years has been found safe and sound.

Spalding County Sheriff Darrell Dix appeared with 17-year-old Aubrey Carroll in a Facebook Live post to announce that he was alive and safe, and that Carroll has been reunited with his family.

The Sheriff says Carroll has been living on the road with a group that dresses and lives like Woodstock-era hippies.

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