The cat was found dragging her back legs because she had been paralyzed after being shot with a BB gun.

A mother in Austin, Minn. stepped onto her porch Tuesday morning to find a raccoon biting her three-year-old daughter. The girl was treated at the hospital for four puncture wounds and scratches. Austin police say there's been a growing concern over sick raccoons in the city.

The coin, known as a "goloid," was made in 1878 and never put into circulation. The field manager with Treasure Hunter's Roadshow, based out of Springfield, Ill., says he's never seen one before. It could be worth anywhere from $2,000 to $35,000, according to the Austin Daily Herald.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is helping local authorities investigate a shooting spree around midnight Sunday outside of an Austin events center that injured five people -- two of them critically. Authorities say the shooting took place at the Lansing Corners supper club after a "hip hop-rap"-type event and gang activity was not being ruled out as a factor

Melissa Lynn Hill says she has a First Amendment right to write and anti-war statement on the Minneapolis federal building sidewalk with impermanent chalk. She's suing police, Governor Mark Dayton, and the state attorney general for what her attorneys call a 'classic example of overreach by government.'