Greater Minnesota

Doctor says TVs at sex offender facility are not the problem
State lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are decrying the purchase of about 25 plasma televisions for a sex offender treatment facility in Moose Lake. Dr. Michael Farnsworth, who had initially helped design the treatment program, says the uproar over the TVs obscures larger issues with the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.
Hundreds of low-level offenders who had been strip-searched while being booked into the Meeker County jail will begin receiving their shares of a $1.75 million settlement with the county beginning next month.
Funeral for Minn. soldier killed in Afghanistan
Spc. George W. Cauley of Walker died Oct. 10, three days after being wounded when insurgents attacked his vehicle with a homemade bomb in Helmand province.
Officials outline top solutions for Fargo-Moorhead flood control
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has identified several possible solutions to the chronic flooding in Fargo-Moorhead, including a diversion plan that officials said had it been in place last March, the millions of sandbags and emergency dikes would not have been needed.