Despite opposition from neighbors and a developer of a residential building, Izzy's ice cream-making kitchen and scoop shop broke ground in Minneapolis last week.

Finance & Commerce reports Izzy's Ice Cream is looking to build a new factory and business headquarters in Minneapolis. The lot is just across from Gold Medal Park.

Kemps will dish out 10,000 scoops of free ice cream on Tuesday as part of a fundraiser for the Salvation Army. To get yours, head to Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, between 7th and 8th streets, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Cavalier, N.D., residents will likely be in the Guinness Book of World Records after making the planet's longest ice cream sundae along Main Street on Saturday -- about twice as long as the previous record-holder. They used rain gutter as a bowl for the 170 gallons of ice cream. And yeah, they ate it all.

The new flavor came from a Saturday Night Live skit featuring a baker named Pete Schweddy, played by Alec Baldwin. The group One Million Moms is urging people to protest the ice cream, saying its offensive and vulgar.

An ice cream truck owner left his van running outside a St. Paul gas station to keep the frozen treats cold in the 100-degree heat when another man hopped in and made a cool getaway.

Fargo-based Cass-Clay creamery is voluntarily recalling some brands of peppermint bon bon-flavored ice cream because it may contain eggs that aren't listed on the label. The Associated Press reports the recalled products were distributed in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and Wisconsin.