Police in St. Cloud are searching for a pair of thieves -- who they say, stole more than $3,500 worth of equipment from a locker room at St. Cloud State University over the weekend.

Two men who fled a prison boot camp and went on a crime spree through several western Wisconsin towns were caught more than a week later in Florida, but not after making it difficult for police to collar them, authorities said. Police dogs and a helicopter were used in the pursuit.

A new competition between Minnesota and Wisconsin will start brewing this weekend in the Badger State when the first annual Border Battle Beer Fest begins in Somerset, Wis. The competition Saturday will feature 50 brews from each state, and a secret panel of judges will determine a winner -- who will be awarded a "Golden Firkin." The term firkin stands for an old English unit of volume.

Works by Salvador Dali, Rembrandt, Erte and others worth hundreds of thousands of dollars were reported stolen in 2007. Investigators found the works in the owner's garage--after he collected insurance payments.

The Edgewater Resort and Water Park is spending $100,000 on purification equipment, after the health department linked the park to several cases of a disease carried by a chlorine-resistant parasite. The new equipment will use ultraviolet light to kill microbes.

The Bloomington-based lawn equipment manufacturer is testing some of its snowblowers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The Associated Press reports, because of the lack of snow in northern Minnesota, Toro had to find it elsewhere -- about 250 miles away.