PILLAGER - Cass County Health and Human Services Department has begun having youths ages 15 to 17 make tobacco purchases from tobacco license holders in the county.

...but will continue to seek answers to their questions. The family will closely monitor the ongoing state Occupational Safety and Health Division investigation into Stringer's death. "We felt it was appropriate at this time to release it," Gould...

BLOOMINGTON - Kelci Stringer doesn't speak as if she's recently been widowed.

Tom's Backhoe of Brainerd was cited for two serious violations from an Occupational Safety and Health Division inspection in July in southwest Brainerd.

ST. PAUL (AP) - Gov. Tim Pawlenty has reversed his earlier position and decided to keep workplace safety under state regulation instead of turning it over to the federal government.

CHASKA (AP) - Authorities weren't sure what caused the roof of a former motorcycle shop to collapse, killing one of the two children inside.

CHASKA (AP) - A 12-year-old boy killed when a heavy asphalt roof collapsed was actually on the sidewalk, not in the building as first believed, police said.

MOOSE LAKE (AP) - The state has imposed a $50,000 fine on the Moose Lake convenience store where Katie Poirier was working when she was abducted, saying the store failed to protect her "from exposure to violent acts."

MARSHALL (AP) - The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry has cited KHC Construction Inc. for two violations and penalized the company $25,000 in the death of a worker at the MERIT Training Center site.

MARSHALL (AP) - The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry has cited KHC Construction Inc. for two violations and penalized the company $25,000 in the death of a worker at the MERIT Training Center site.