Greater Minnesota

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.
Tinklenberg withdraws from 6th District race
Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg said today he is ending his campaign for Congress in Minnesota's 6th District. This would have been his third attempt to unseat Republican incumbent Michele Bachmann.
A conservation group is appealing a judge's order dismissing its lawsuit, which accused the Big Stone power plant of violating federal environmental laws.
A Minnesota woman has been charged with starving to death her developmentally disabled 10-year-old daughter, who used a feeding tube to gain nourishment.