Jury selection began Monday in the trial of surgeon Jon Norberg, who is accused of drugging his wife with the powerful anesthetic propofol, the drug that featured prominently in the death of pop singer Michael Jackson. Norberg is accused sexually assaulting his wife Alonna Norberg, alos a doctor, while she was sedated.

Kara Pavelich, an artist well known along the North Shore and the wife of former Minnesota Duluth and NHL hockey star Mark Pavelich, has died. Authorities believe she fell from a 20-foot balcony in an accident at her home. She was 44.

Six people have drowned in Hennepin County this year, and there have been 14 near drownings. Officials say many parents just are not watching their children – and it only takes a moment for a child to slip quietly under the water. They urge moms and dads to put down books and cell phones at the beach.

The Chisago County Sheriff’s Office said a 5-year-old boy drowned in a lake just west of Rush City Tuesday evening. Matthew Siefert was with his family visiting friends and family when the boy asked to go swimming. Officials believe the boy drowned when he fell off a dock while trying to get a life jacket.

The lawyer for the woman accused of drowning puppies at her Sciota Township dog kennel says he will challenge the constitutionality of the law she is accused of violating more than a dozen times. Dayna K. Bell, 61, owns Bell Kennels and Farm, where three former employees say she drowned puppies in a bucket of water or by tying a cinder block to the animals' necks and throwing them in a swimming pool.

A 6-year-old boy Saturday became Hennepin County's sixth drowning victim this year. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office said a passerby walking along Wirth Lake discovered the boy in about four feet of water close to shore. The sheriff's office said the boy was at Theodore Wirth Park with family for a birthday party.