Hip-hop artist Brother Ali was among 13 protesters arrested in South Minneapolis Thursday night. Ali's act of civil disobedience was part of an ongoing occupation of a foreclosed home in South Minneapolis. More than 100 people rallied in support of a family fighting a bank to keep their home.

A report from the McKnight Foundation finds the number of foreclosures prevented by housing agencies and advocacy groups is going up. But not quite as fast as the number of foreclosures.

The Center for Responsible Lending says Minnesota's foreclosure rate on bubble-era loans was higher than most other states. The report also found 5.5 percent of the Minnesota mortgages made during the housing bubble are delinquent.

Muslim and Somali organizations are slamming an upcoming seminar on Somalia organized by former Ramsey County sheriff Bob Fletcher. They say "Understanding the People of Somalia" will spread "inaccurate and biased information" and lead to more racial and religious profiling. The groups say featured speakers at the event "unrepresentative of their community and unqualified to speak."

Ruth Murman's bank denied a two week extension on her home's foreclosure. KARE 11 says OccupyMN organizers circulated the story and filed a petition - within two hours Murman's bank granted the extension.

The threat of a lawsuit prompted a physician's group to scrap plans for an anti-cheese billboard featuring a popular Wisconsin icon. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine planned to erect a billboard near Green Bay depicting the Grim Reaper with a foam cheesehead hat. The company that makes the cheese hats threatened to sue, so the billboard group decided to remove the icon from the billboard.

Despite a drop in foreclosures in the Twin Cities last year, 2012 will not likely be the year that the housing crisis winds down. The Star Tribune reports that a moratorium on processing new foreclosures has ended, which will likely increase the number of local foreclosures processed in the coming year.

A group supporting the proposed amendment that would ban gay marriage in Minnesota will begin airing ads on television. Minnesota for Marriage bought air time on KARE-TV, the NBC affiliate in Minneapolis.