Greater Minnesota

Meetings are scheduled this week in the Minnesota communities of Roseau and Oslo. Others are scheduled next month in Lakota, Devils Lake, Langdon, Pembina and in Morris, Manitoba.
A free pharmaceutical collection program kicks off Thursday from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Snyders drugstore in Mankato. A second collection is scheduled for Nov. 5, from 2-6 p.m.
Blind youth in Minn. hopes to play prep football
At 5-foot-2 and about 110 pounds, Riley Schmitz was not among the bigger boys on the Southland eighth-grade football team this season.
Wet fall could slow good harvest in central Minn.
If they can just get into the fields, central Minnesota farmers still anticipate strong corn and soybean yields for the year.
Girl, 12, is youngest Minnesotan to kill moose
A Minnesota wildlife official confirms that a 12-year-old girl is the youngest Minnesotan to kill a moose in the modern era.