Greater Minnesota

Mothers of deployed soldiers find support in numbers
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan left mothers here at home, some of whom have turned to Blue Star Mothers for support and these groups are helping a new wave of moms cope with their children's deployments.
A 28-year-old man who had a restraining order against him shot and killed the woman who took out the order, killed her stepfather, then took his own life Sunday at a home near Lewisville, southwest of Mankato, authorities said.
Red Bulls ready to return from Iraq
National Guard members with the 34th Infantry Red Bull Division are coming home to Minnesota over the next few weeks, after spending the past year in Iraq.
Researchers offer a new idea for ditches
A new research project in rural Adams will study how tweaks in ditch design affect the amount of sediment and nutrients leaving it. Known as a two-stage drainage ditch, it's said to be the first of its kind in southeast Minnesota.