Greater Minnesota

Gov. Tim Pawlenty is announcing a program to help Minnesota farmers now in crisis.
What started as a medical situation in Bemidji has ended with a police officer shooting an 18-year-old man to death.
A lawyers' standards board has filed a petition accusing former St. Cloud Mayor John Ellenbecker of unprofessional conduct.
A tourist shop in Duluth will stop selling T-shirts with messages offensive to American Indians after getting complaints.
An iron mining official says U.S. Steel's Minntac plant in Mountain Iron should have four of five production lines up and running next month.
An 11-year-old girl is recovering after a pit bull attacked her near Richmond.
A 26-year-old man is in jail facing charges in a Fourth of July crash that killed four people near Detroit Lakes.
Several thousand turkeys at a large poultry producer in central Minnesota's Meeker County have been quarantined after routine testing discovered a strain of avian flu.
Bemidji businesses including Ojibwe in signs
A growing number of businesses in Bemidji are putting up signs in the language of the local Native American community.
Controlling farm runoff could have multiple benefits
A big contributor to the Gulf of Mexico's 'dead zone' is farmland runoff, but a new approach to farmland drainage may help reduce its size.